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Box 1

 Container

Contains 7 Results:

Sheets from an account book, 1818 - 1862

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 1
Scope and Contents From the Collection: Correspondence, documents, manuscripts, diaries and clippings concerning the Matthews family of Missouri. Early material includes leaves from a diary, describing frontier life in Missouri from 1818-1833, a land grant signed by John Quincy Adams in 1827, and bills of sale from 1855 for two enslaved people. Later material includes correspondence and manuscripts from Florence Calvert Thorne, Director of Research for the American Federation of Labor, and research material of Ralph A. Anderson...
Dates: 1818 - 1862

Photostats of leaves from an account book in folder 1, 1818 - 1862

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 2
Scope and Contents From the Collection: Correspondence, documents, manuscripts, diaries and clippings concerning the Matthews family of Missouri. Early material includes leaves from a diary, describing frontier life in Missouri from 1818-1833, a land grant signed by John Quincy Adams in 1827, and bills of sale from 1855 for two enslaved people. Later material includes correspondence and manuscripts from Florence Calvert Thorne, Director of Research for the American Federation of Labor, and research material of Ralph A. Anderson...
Dates: 1818 - 1862

Land grant to Jacob Mathews of Marion County, Missouri, signed by John Quincy Adams, 1827-11-01

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 3
Scope and Contents From the Collection: Correspondence, documents, manuscripts, diaries and clippings concerning the Matthews family of Missouri. Early material includes leaves from a diary, describing frontier life in Missouri from 1818-1833, a land grant signed by John Quincy Adams in 1827, and bills of sale from 1855 for two enslaved people. Later material includes correspondence and manuscripts from Florence Calvert Thorne, Director of Research for the American Federation of Labor, and research material of Ralph A. Anderson...
Dates: 1827-11-01

Bills for the sale of two enslaved people, 1855-01-02 - 1855-07-07

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 4
Scope and Contents From the Collection: Correspondence, documents, manuscripts, diaries and clippings concerning the Matthews family of Missouri. Early material includes leaves from a diary, describing frontier life in Missouri from 1818-1833, a land grant signed by John Quincy Adams in 1827, and bills of sale from 1855 for two enslaved people. Later material includes correspondence and manuscripts from Florence Calvert Thorne, Director of Research for the American Federation of Labor, and research material of Ralph A. Anderson...
Dates: 1855-01-02 - 1855-07-07

Reminiscences of Florence Calvert Thorne, Oral History Research Office, Columbia University, 1957

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 5
Scope and Contents From the Collection: Correspondence, documents, manuscripts, diaries and clippings concerning the Matthews family of Missouri. Early material includes leaves from a diary, describing frontier life in Missouri from 1818-1833, a land grant signed by John Quincy Adams in 1827, and bills of sale from 1855 for two enslaved people. Later material includes correspondence and manuscripts from Florence Calvert Thorne, Director of Research for the American Federation of Labor, and research material of Ralph A. Anderson...
Dates: 1957

Addresses delivered at dinner in honor of Florence Calvert Thorne, Director of Research, American Federation of Labor, Hay-Adams House, Washington, DC, 1941-01-07

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 6
Scope and Contents From the Collection: Correspondence, documents, manuscripts, diaries and clippings concerning the Matthews family of Missouri. Early material includes leaves from a diary, describing frontier life in Missouri from 1818-1833, a land grant signed by John Quincy Adams in 1827, and bills of sale from 1855 for two enslaved people. Later material includes correspondence and manuscripts from Florence Calvert Thorne, Director of Research for the American Federation of Labor, and research material of Ralph A. Anderson...
Dates: Event: 1941-01-07

Mary Edith Thorne, diploma from Hannibal High School, 1895-05-31

 Item — Box: 1
Scope and Contents From the Collection: Correspondence, documents, manuscripts, diaries and clippings concerning the Matthews family of Missouri. Early material includes leaves from a diary, describing frontier life in Missouri from 1818-1833, a land grant signed by John Quincy Adams in 1827, and bills of sale from 1855 for two enslaved people. Later material includes correspondence and manuscripts from Florence Calvert Thorne, Director of Research for the American Federation of Labor, and research material of Ralph A. Anderson...
Dates: Event: 1895-05-31