Scope and Contents note From the Series: About 50,000 letters, mostly to H.B. Scott as agent as agent for C.E. Perkins, in charge of his land business. Some of the letters are to C.E. Perkins.

Letters are from individual landowners, small businesses managing land sales, county officials (auditors, treasurers, etc.), and CB&Q officials.

Scope and Contents note From the Series: Includes bills for commissions regarding purchase of lands, 1868; Bills for sundry items, 1871-1874 (including bills for stationery, printed circulars and fliers, and replacement maps and books for those burnt in the 1871 Chicago Fire); maps and plats; memoranda, tax documents, and a printed account of Scott's examination of lands in Texas (1883) and Washington State (1884) for Perkins and Forbes. The printed account was formerly its own series: CB&Q 7.7. Maps and plats show lands for sale...

Scope and Contents note From the Series: Includes bills for commissions regarding purchase of lands, 1868; Bills for sundry items, 1871-1874 (including bills for stationery, printed circulars and fliers, and replacement maps and books for those burnt in the 1871 Chicago Fire); maps and plats; memoranda, tax documents, and a printed account of Scott's examination of lands in Texas (1883) and Washington State (1884) for Perkins and Forbes. The printed account was formerly its own series: CB&Q 7.7. Maps and plats show lands for sale...

Scope and Contents note From the Series: Includes bills for commissions regarding purchase of lands, 1868; Bills for sundry items, 1871-1874 (including bills for stationery, printed circulars and fliers, and replacement maps and books for those burnt in the 1871 Chicago Fire); maps and plats; memoranda, tax documents, and a printed account of Scott's examination of lands in Texas (1883) and Washington State (1884) for Perkins and Forbes. The printed account was formerly its own series: CB&Q 7.7. Maps and plats show lands for sale...

Scope and Contents note From the Series: Includes bills for commissions regarding purchase of lands, 1868; Bills for sundry items, 1871-1874 (including bills for stationery, printed circulars and fliers, and replacement maps and books for those burnt in the 1871 Chicago Fire); maps and plats; memoranda, tax documents, and a printed account of Scott's examination of lands in Texas (1883) and Washington State (1884) for Perkins and Forbes. The printed account was formerly its own series: CB&Q 7.7. Maps and plats show lands for sale...

Scope and Contents note From the Series: This company was an agent for Iowa lands and was among the most active in advertising the state in the 1860s. Series includes seven circulars and one pamphlet about purpose and activities of the company, and advertising, such as "A word to poor but industrious farmers," etc.

Scope and Contents note From the Sub-Series: This series is especially rich for its illumination of the lengths which the CB&Q endeavored to colonize the Midwest along the railroads, both from the perspective of the corporation, and the thousands of immigrants who came to settle the land. The series contains nearly 100,000 letters from land buyers, agents, bankers, and newspapers concerning land sales, payments, and promotion of colonization as well as promotional materials. The land department created posters, circulars, and took out...