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Reports of explorations and surveys to ascertain the most practicable and economical route for a railroad from the Mississippi River to the Pacific Ocean made under the Secretary of War, in 1853-6...

Title continues "according to Acts of Congress of March 3, 1853, May 31, 1854, and August 5, 1854." Volume includes the report of Lieutenant John G. Parke regarding the routes in California to connect with the routes near the 35th and 32nd parallels...

GLC04963.07

Reports of explorations and surveys to ascertain the most practicable and economical route for a railroad from the Mississippi River to the Pacific Ocean made under the Secretary of War, in 1853-6...

Title continues "according to Acts of Congress of March 3, 1853, May 31, 1854, and August 5, 1854." Volume includes part one of a general report of the zoology along the Pacific railroad routes. Executive document no. 91. Large folio volume with...

GLC04963.08

Reports of explorations and surveys to ascertain the most practicable and economical route for a railroad from the Mississippi River to the Pacific Ocean made under the Secretary of War, in 1853-6...

Title continues "according to Acts of Congress of March 3, 1853, May 31, 1854, and August 5, 1854." Volume includes part two of a general report of the zoology along the Pacific railroad routes. Executive document no. 78. Large folio volume with...

GLC04963.09

Reports of explorations and surveys to ascertain the most practicable and economical route for a railroad from the Mississippi River to the Pacific Ocean made under the Secretary of War, in 1853-6...

Title continues "according to Acts of Congress of March 3, 1853, May 31, 1854, and August 5, 1854." Volume includes part three of a general report of the zoology along the Pacific railroad routes. Executive document no. 91. Large folio volume with...

GLC04963.10

Reports of explorations and surveys to ascertain the most practicable and economical route for a railroad from the Mississippi River to the Pacific Ocean made under the Secretary of War, in 1853-6...

Title continues "according to Acts of Congress of March 3, 1853, May 31, 1854, and August 5, 1854." Volume includes a letter from Captain A.A. Humphreys to Secretary of War Jefferson Davis, Lieutenant Warren's memoir relating to the creation of a map...

GLC04963.11

Reports of explorations and surveys to ascertain the most practicable and economical route for a railroad from the Mississippi River to the Pacific Ocean made under the Secretary of War, in 1853-5...

Title continues "according to Acts of Congress of March 3, 1853, May 31, 1854, and August 5, 1854." First of two volumes. Volume includes part one and the appendices of Washington Territory Governor Isaac I. Stevens' report on the route near the...

GLC04963.12.01

Reports of explorations and surveys to ascertain the most practicable and economical route for a railroad from the Mississippi River to the Pacific Ocean made under the Secretary of War, in 1853-5...

Title continues "according to Acts of Congress of March 3, 1853, May 31, 1854, and August 5, 1854." Second of two volumes. Volume includes parts two (botany) and three (zoological) of Washington Territory Governor Isaac I. Stevens' report on the...

GLC04963.12.02

[American Military Occupation Currency B-Yen Fifty Sen]

A banknote worth fifty sen and used in areas occupied by the American military in Japan. There is a note at the top marking it as five cents.

The decorative engraving on the front side is printed in blue and on the reverse it is printed in brown...

GLC09620.370

[Collection of War Department newsmaps][Decimalized .01-.38]

Collection of 36 maps belonging to the War Department's Bureau of Public Relations dated primarily 1943-1944. Pertains to updates of the military front throughout Europe, Asia and the Pacific Islands.

GLC09865

[Receipt of salaries]

Written from the War Office of the United States to the "Secretary for the Department of War," [Henry Knox]. Receipt of paid salaries for the months of January, February, and March.

GLC02437.06071

[Receipt of salaries]

Signed by nine War Dept. employees including John Stagg Jr. Written from the War Office of the United States to the "Secretary for the Department of War," [Henry Knox]. Receipt of paid salaries for the months of April, May, and June.

GLC02437.06130

[Receipt of salaries]

Contains Knox's copied signature. Written from the War Office of the United States to the "Secretary for the Department of War" [Henry Knox]. Receipt of paid salaries for the months of October, November, and December. Signed by 12 War Department...

GLC02437.06288

[Salaries for War Department employees]

Record of salaries owed and paid by the War office for the months of January, February, and March of 1791. Includes salaries for the Secretary of War (Henry Knox), John Stagg, Reiner John Van den Brock, Benjamin Bankson, Philip Audebert, and Caesar...

GLC02437.04895