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Railroads

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:

Railroad surveying notebooks

00-2011-76-0

 Collection
Identifier: 00-2011-76-0
Scope and Contents

The Railroad surveying notebooks (2011-76-0) consist of three notebooks kept during the surveying for a proposed railway line from Kelso, Washington to Knappton, Washington in 1890 and 1891. The notebooks do not indicate who the surveyor was, or for what railway company the survey was being completed. These may be a Camp Columbia student's class assignment. The items are currently housed in 3A Box 22.

Dates: Created: 1890-1891; Other: Date acquired: 07/06/2011

Webster Family Papers

2017-11-0

 Fonds
Identifier: 2017-11-0
Scope and Contents The Webster family papers include Arethusa Farm records, ledgers, calendars, and postcards; documentation of a 1952 transcontinental trip to Alaska; and Litchfield photos and ephemera. Most of the family papers are from the 1870s through the 1920s.In 1868, Charles Baldwin Webster (1822-1912) Charles purchased a farm in Litchfield, CT, that he and his wife Lucinda Baldwin (1830-1871) named Arethusa, which remained in the Webster family until it was sold in 1981.The...
Dates: 1867-1998