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SCM0262
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Call Number: SCM0262
Creator:
Stanford, Leland, 1824-1893.
Title: Leland Stanford letter to Butler Ives
Dates: 1869
Physical Description:
0.02 Linear feet (2 items)
Summary: Handwritten letter, January 25, 1869, requesting more men at work "on our line at the point where the U.P. line strikes it
east of Ogden," along with a photoprint copy of a stereocard showing Butler Ives on horseback in the mountains.
Language(s): The materials are in English.
Repository:
Department of Special Collections and University Archives
Green Library
557 Escondido Mall
Stanford, CA 94305-6064
Email: specialcollections@stanford.edu
Phone: (650) 725-1022
URL: http://library.stanford.edu/spc
This collection is open for research.
All requests to reproduce, publish, quote from, or otherwise use collection materials must be submitted in writing to the
Head of Special Collections and University Archives, Stanford University Libraries, Stanford, California 94304-6064. Consent
is given on behalf of Special Collections as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission
from the copyright owner. Such permission must be obtained from the copyright owner, heir(s) or assigns. See: http://library.stanford.edu/depts/spc/pubserv/permissions.html.
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and educational purposes.
Leland Stanford Letter to Butler Ives (SCM0262). Department of Special Collections and University Archives, Stanford University
Libraries, Stanford, Calif.
Biographical/Historical Sketch
At the time of the letter, Butler Ives was an assistant engineer with the Central Pacific Railroad.
Handwritten letter, January 25, 1869, requesting more men at work "on our line at the point where the U.P. line strikes it
east of Ogden," along with a photoprint copy of a stereocard showing Butler Ives on horseback in the mountains.
Central Pacific Railroad Company
Ives, Butler, 1830-1872.
Stanford, Leland, 1824-1893.
Photoprints.