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Receipt for 2 barrels of coal for use by Blacksmith during the building of the harbor in St. Louis. This document is 'for the improvement of the Mississippi River above the Mouth of the Ohio,' signed by Robert E. Lee, 18 June 1838.

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[recto] The United States Dr to Bemis, Kingsland & Lightner For the Improvement of the MISSISSIPPI RIVER, above the Mouth of the OHIO 1838 June 18th To 2 Barrells of Coal @ $2 for us e of Blacksmith Barrells & Drayage [verso] To Certify, That the articles within charged have been received, were necessary for, and have been or will be applied, for the objects within stated, to the improvement of MISSISSIPPI above the mouth of the OHIO [signed] R E Lee [rank illegible]

Creation Date

6-18-1838

Creator Life Dates

1807-1870

Keywords

receipt, Robert E. Lee, St. Louis, Mississippi River, Ohio River, coal, blacksmith, construction, 18 June 1838, 1838

Resource Identifier

080429-01

Date Digital

May 2014

Document Type

Manuscript

Disciplines

Social History | United States History

Format (medium)

manuscript

Format (IMT)

PDF

Language

en-us

Digitization Specifications

800ppi 24-bit depth color; Scanned with an Epson 15000 Photo scanner with Epson Scan software; Archival master is a TIFF; TIFFs converted to PDF with Adobe Acrobat XI Pro.

Source

The original from which this digital representation is taken is housed in The Littlejohn Collection at Wofford College, located in the Sandor Teszler Library.

Creative Commons License

Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 License.

Receipt for 2 barrels of coal and their drayage, signed by Robert E. Lee, 1838.

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