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Metcalf, Isaac Stevens, to Antoinette Brigham Putnam Metcalf (wife), Isaac Stevens Metcalf family papers, 1850-1866

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Title Metcalf, Isaac Stevens, to Antoinette Brigham Putnam Metcalf (wife), Isaac Stevens Metcalf family papers, 1850-1866

Creator Metcalf, Isaac Stevens, 1822-1898

Date 1850-1866

Place United States

Subjects Bowdoin College, Brothers and sisters, DuQuoin Coal Company, Illinois Central Railroad Company

Format Business records, Correspondence, Diaries, Genealogies, Invoices, Manuscripts, Personal narratives, Records

User-Contributed Transcription rambling the streets of that fine city, in examining the Louisville & Portland Steamboat Canal, around the falls of the Ohio and in deciding how to get down to Cairo. This splendid Boat, they claim the very finest on the Western Waters hardly get finished, carrying the decorations & workmen who Just the finishing touches yet on her, was just starting off her first move, on her way to her business, which is the Bends Valley Cotton Trade. She is built expressly for that, as a companion to the Gen Quitman & the _________, the two crack boats of the Miss. River, and they claim superior to them is sundry new improvements.

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Archival Collection Title Isaac Stevens Metcalf papers, Midwest Manuscript Collection

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Call Number Midwest MS Metcalf Box 7 Folder 182

BibID 821787

Rights Status No Copyright - United States

Contributing Institution Newberry Library

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IIIF Resource Type Canvas

Size 2034px × 3212px 37.42 MB

Filename 998217878805867_mms_metcalf_box_07_fl_182_010_002.tif

Unique Identifier NL11FJUU

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