Scope and Contents note From the Series: Handwritten contracts in 87 folders. A few contracts for Osage orange hedges, locust trees, grain houses, axles, steel rails, box cars, eating houses, hotels, etc., 1853-56 and 1870s-1880s. Most loose contracts are also entered in the Contract volumes, +2.36. If the listing of the contract was found in the indexes to the volumes, the volume number and page number is indicated on the folder. The files from 1862-1864 are not contracts; rather, they are vouchers for government shipments during...