Series One: Papers 1863-1925
Scope and Content Note
Diary: Richard Blackstone, January 1863-August 1864
Discharge papers, 17 January 1864
Special Orders from the headquarters, Seventeenth Army Corps and the headquarters, Ohio Volunteer Recruiting Service 1 February 1864; 10 February, 9 April and 14 April 1864
Muster-out Roll of 2nd Lieutenant Richard Blackstone, C Company 32nd Ohio Infantry Volunteers, 25 August 1864
Muster-in Rolls, 29 March 1864, 23 August 1864, 17 June 1865
Discharge papers, 28 March 1864, 24 May 1864
Notice of commission as First Lieutenant in the 32nd Regiment of Infantry Volunteers, 15 August 1864
Certificate of appointment as First Lieutenant in the 32nd regiment Ohio Volunteer Infantry, 11August 1864
Clothing receipt, 32nd Regiment Ohio Volunteers, [ca. 1864]
Muster-out Roll, 30 April 1865
Muster-out Roll, 17 June 1865
Printed letter from the Ordnance Office, War Department, 5 June 1865
Certificate of appointment as Captain in the 32nd Regiment of Ohio Volunteer Infantry, 6 June 1865
Special Orders from headquarters, 32nd Regiment, 27 July 1865
Discharge papers, 20 July 1865
Quarterly Return of Ordnance and Ordnance Stores, 27 July 1865
Notary Public's statement and refused check, 30 June 1875
Receipt, Cheyenne and Black Hills Stage Company, 2 May 1978
Appointment of Deputy U.S. Mining Surveyor, 13 June 1879
Certificate issued by the South Dakota Division Sons of Veterans, U.S.A., 23 December 1889
Certificate issued by the Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States, 3 November 1892
Official form naming John C. Dermody as Blackstone's attorney, 1896
Notification of Disallowance, Treasury Department, Office of the Auditor for the War Department, 27 May 1896
Correspondence with the Vicksburg National Military Park Commission, 1901, 1905
Letter: Warner Mills, Secretary and Treasurer of the Regimental Association of the 32nd Ohio Veteran Volunteer Infantry, to Blackstone, 14 March 1905
Bureau of Pensions correspondence and paperwork (25 items), 1905-1913
Notification of Disallowance, Treasury Department, Office of Auditor for the War Department, 3 September 1908
Letter to Hon. E.W. Martin, M.C., Washington, D.C., and printed copy of Senate Bill S. 4183. The bill was To create in the War Department and the Navy Department, respectively, a roll designated as The civil war volunteer officers' retired list, to authorize placing thereon with retired pay certain surviving officers who served in...the civil war... 22 December 1909
Proposed form of bill, Volunteer Retired List, Summary of Reasons Which Justify the Legislation Requested from the 61st Congress to Provide Suitable Recognition of the Service and Merit of Surviving Union Volunteer Officers of the Civil War. 15 October 1909
Newspaper articles: Superintendent in Charge, Captain Rich'd Blackstone: Superintendent of the Homestake, Lead Daily Call, The Homestake's New Superintendent; Blackstone-Connors.; fragment. 17 December 1914; 30 September 1914; undated
Calendar: The Favorite Calendar of Cheer, 1915
Grand Army of the Republic certificates of Aide-de-Camp, 9 September 1915, 1 January 1916
Receipts for dues paid to the Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States, 1915-1918
Grand Army of the Republic (GAR) ephemera, 1915-1920
Certificate of appointment as Sergeant of the Third Regiment S.D.H.G., 28 September 1918
3 letters: J.M. Blair to Blackstone, 3 December 1920; Blacktone to Blair; Blair to Blackstone, Blair was the Recorder for the Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States, Commandery of the State of Ohio. These letters pertain to Blackstone's attempt to have his son, Alex J. Blackstone, apply for membership in the Loyal Legion. 10 December 1920, 13 December 1920.
Printed program, Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States, Commandery of the State of Ohio. Includes announcement of Alexander J. Blackstone's election to the Legion, 22 January 1921
Notes on the Blackstone family genealogy copied from a book of father[']s[,] Dec. 31 1922. 31 December 1922
Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States, Commandery of the State of Ohio. In Memoriam. Richard Blackstone and Charles Augustus Cable, 27 January 1923
Memorial to the Valor of the Soldier of the South. A commemorative folder and coin. The coin depicts General Robert E. Lee and General Stonewall Jacksom mounted on their horses with the words Stone Mountain 1925. The folder holding the coin has the name J.C. Weadock on the cover, 1925
Printed photograph of the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Glee and Mandolin and Guitar Clubs, undated
Series Two: Photographs (Prints), n.d.
Scope and Content Note
Addams, Mrs. F.E.
Barkalow
Barkalow, Kate
Blackstone, Alex J. [baby]
Blackstone, Alex J. [baby], 2 copies
[Blackstone, Alex J. baby]
Blackstone, Richard (approx 9 x 7 inches). 1920
Hay, Henry
Hay, Henry
Johnson, Chris
Kirkindall, Judge
Kirkindall, Mrs.
Matthews, Elwood
Rogers [man]
Scott, Laura
Shepherd [man] tintype
Whitehead, Belle (Mrs. Walter Harlbut)
Friends of Richard Blackstone [3 men]
[unidentified baby]
[unidentified baby]
[unidentified boy]
[unidentified child]
[unidentified child]
[unidentified girl]
[unidentified girl]
[unidentified girl]
[unidentified girl]
[unidentified man]
[unidentified man]
[unidentified man]
[unidentified man]
[unidentified man standing next to automobile], (12 3/4 x 7 3/4 inches)
[unidentified men in military uniforms], (5 1/4 x 4 1/4 inches)
[unidentified woman]
[unidentified woman]
[unidentified woman]
[Richard Blackstone's gravestone]
Series Three: Photographs (Negatives), 1913, n.d.
Scope and Content Note
Anaheim Ranch--California, April 1913
Recreation Bldg--Poorman and Central Highwater. All printed Sept 2 1913
Belle Fouche Fair--printed Sept. 1913
On Tinton Road, printed Oct 1, 1913
Spearfish fair; Beam at Recreation Bldg--Saturday afternoon; Spearfish Canyon Sunday afternoon. Sept. 1913; Oct 11, 1913; Oct. 12, 1913; All printed Oct. 14 1913
Spearfish Hydro Elect
Recreation Building Construction, Alex Blackstone