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BOX 20-68 Administrative File, 1857-1999
Correspondence, reports, legal documents, financial records, card indexes, code books, criminal rosters, address books and directories, employee records, real estate records, procedural guidelines and training manuals, reward notices and wanted posters, military records, exhibition texts, business cards, logos, advertisements and other promotional materials, and photographs.
Arranged alphabetically by document type or subject.
Letterpress books and miscellaneous reports available on microfilm. Microfilm shelf no. 16,574
BOX 20 Address books, agency officials, undated
Agency history and publicity
General, 1875, 1881-1887, 1934-1968, undated
Horan, James D., Desperate Men: Revelations from the Pinkerton Files, galleys, 1949
Horan, James D., and Howard Swiggett, “The Pinkerton Story”
Book draft, typescript, 1950
(2 folders)
BOX 21 (4 folders)
Correspondence and notes, 1950, undated
(2 folders)
American Banker's Association, 1894-1915
Board of directors, 1925-1930
(1 folder)
BOX 22 (3 folders)
Branch offices
Business cards, 1897-1922, undated
(2 folders)
Lists, 1971, undated
(2 folders)
BOX 23 Business announcements, notices, advertisements, and logos, 1879, undated
Cases and clients, miscellaneous reports, 1881-1899, 1948, 1961, undated
Cipher example and analysis, undated
Civil War
“Baltimore Plot” to assassinate Lincoln
Correspondence, 1866, 1891-1893, 1938-1950
Essay, incomplete draft and notes, undated
(2 folders)
Newspaper and magazine articles and related material, 1861-1872, 1887-1894, 1906, 1919, 1930-1951, 1966, undated
(2 folders)
BOX 24 (1 folder)
Photographs, positive prints and negatives, and illustrations, undated
Booth, John Wilkes, 1895, 1937-1938, 1964, undated
Greenhow, Rose O'Neal, Confederate spy, 1911, 1930-1946, 1964, undated
Lincoln, Abraham
Correspondence, notes, and essay drafts, 1863-1865, 1934-1940, undated
Newspaper and magazine articles and related material, 1868, 1925-1950, 1965, undated
United States Secret Service
Correspondence, including copies and transcripts, 1861-1864, 1894, 1902, 1951
Field report to army headquarters, Washington, D.C., extracts, 1862 For additional material see Container 25, Webster, Timothy
Newspaper and magazine articles and related material, 1883, 1894-1919, 1928, 1939-1949, 1963, undated
BOX 25 Notes, undated
Photographs, positive prints and negatives, 1862-1863, undated
Warne, Kate, 1951, undated
Webster, Timothy See also Container 33, same heading
Case notebook and field reports, including transcripts, 1857-1861
Correspondence, including copies and transcripts, 1861-1864, 1894, 1901-1914, 1928, 1940, 1950-1954
(2 folders)
Essays and notes, 1906, undated
Newspaper and magazine articles and related material, 1886, 1893, 1901-1913, 1923-1924, 1948, 1954, undated
Code names, operatives and informants
Books
Vol. 1, 1904
BOX 26 Vols. 2-3, 1904, undated
(2 folders)
Lists, 1999, undated
Criminal rosters
Hotel prowlers and thieves, undated
Pickpockets, undated
Directories of offices and managers, 1960, undated
Directors' motions, 1950
BOX 27 Employees
Ahern, Philip K., 1892, 1900-1925
Bailey, Norman T., 1904-1912, 1921-1929, undated
Ballantine, Alexander, 1900-1907, 1931, 1940
Bangs, George D., 1903-1907, 1923, undated
Bangs, George H., 1883-1886, 1919-1923, 1942-1950
Bearce, H. W., undated
Beck, Ira L., 1902-1903, 1916, undated
Beutler, Seymour, 1892, 1898-1912
Brady, Samuel, 1908-1927, 1934-1942
Burt, W. H., circa 1870s
Bush, Nelson W., 1888, 1900-1908
Carver, Arthur E., 1900-1907, 1915-1925
Cary, H. Frank, 1899-1912
Cassidy, Marshall, 1940, undated
Cavoroc, Pierre Charles, 1902-1909, 1925
Chambers, Benjamin F., undated
Chambers, John A., 1909-1943
Charlesworth, George D., 1882, 1900, 1909-1910
Church, Jason R., 1911-1932
Cornish, John, 1880, 1897-1914, 1931, undated
Cowardin, A. S., 1902-1932
Davis, Frank H., 1901-1903, 1920-1921, 1933-1942
Diehl, Samuel B., 1881, 1898-1937
BOX 28 Dimaio, Francis P., 1888-1890, 1896, 1901-1958
(3 folders)
Donnelly, Charles S., 1892, 1902-1905, 1919, undated
Dougherty, George S., 1888, 1896-1911, 1931, 1949, 1957, undated
Dudley, Ralph, 1907, 1927, 1967
Duhain, Clovis E., 1902-1915, 1922, 1931-1938, 1947, undated
Erb, Jesse, 1904, 1912-1922
Esten, Alfred A., 1912-1914, 1945-1950, 1966, undated
Fallon, James J., undated
BOX 29 Field, William, undated
Forsee, William F., 1888-1890, 1912, 1921, undated
Fox, Daniel William, 1922-1950, undated
(3 folders)
Franklin, Benjamin, 1887, undated
Fraser, John C., 1880, 1886, 1901-1938, undated
Gaylor, Edward S., 1883, 1889, 1904-1921, 1942, undated
Graham, George S., undated
Green, D. T., undated
Grogan, Edward F., 1941, undated
Hanscom, Orinton M., 1894, undated
Harries, John A., 1905-1924
Hatfield, Oliver R., 1905-1917
Hawes, Frederick M., undated
Hay, George, 1951
Hey, Charles D., 1942
Howes, Earl J., 1915-1926
Hunsdorfer, Frank, 1903
Irle, Andrew, 1894, 1902-1905, 1913, undated
Kemble, Benjamin F., 1889-1890, 1898-1917
Larkin, J. F., undated
Laughlin, W. B., 1910
Lawlor, James J., undated
BOX 30 Leith, George E., 1893, 1899-1920, 1926, undated
Littlejohn, Joseph, undated
Linden, Robert J., undated
Loughran, Edwin, 1892
McGinn, John, 1892
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