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Box 106

 Container

Contains 1 Result:

Vol. 4, Dec. 1877-May 1878

 unspecified — Box: 106, Folder: 1640
Identifier: CB&Q 3 H4.2
Scope and Contents note From the Sub-Series:

4 letterpress copybooks containing letters written when Harris was president of CB&Q. Correspondence deals with relations with other roads, especially the Union Pacific and B&MR, which was engaged at the time in a struggle with CB&Q over “Iowa Pool” freight rates. Letters from July of 1877 deal with the brief but significant “Great Railroad Strike of 1877.”

Dates: Dec. 1877-May 1878