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Pinkerton's National Detective Agency records, 1853-1999

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BOX OV 1-OV 20 Oversize, 1867-1955, 1983
Correspondence, payroll and other financial and administrative ledgers, reward notices and wanted posters, legal documents, maps, and a chart.
Arranged and described according to the series, containers, and folders from which the items were removed.
BOX OV 1 Family Directors File
Pinkerton, Allan (1819-1884)
Biographical file
Correspondence about Pinkerton
Genealogy, chart, 1983 (Container 1)
BOX OV 2 Death
Letters of condolence, 1884 (Container 4)
Vol. 1
BOX OV 3 Vol. 2
BOX OV 4 Administrative File
Financial file
Ledgers of employee time, payroll, and uncollected accounts (Container 37)
Time books
Vol. 1, 1873-1877
BOX OV 5 Vol. 2, 1878-1880
BOX OV 6 Vol. 3, 1880-1882
BOX OV 7 Vol. 4, 1884-1885
BOX OV 8 Vol. 5, 1887
BOX OV 9 Vol. 6, 1889-1890
BOX OV 10 Vol. 7, 1891-1897
BOX OV 11 Vol. 8, 1911-1933
BOX OV 12 Uncollected accounts, 1878-1912
BOX OV 13 Reward books
“Book 7, Hartford Office,” 1940-1941, 1952 (Container 55)
BOX OV 14 “Book 8, Denver Office,” 1915, undated (Container 56)
BOX OV 15 “Book 9, New Orleans Office,” 1931-1935, 1941 (Container 56)
BOX OV 16 “Book 11,” 1927-1931 (Container 57)
BOX OV 17 “Book 13, St. Louis,” 1948-1955 (Container 57)
BOX OV 18 “Kansas City Office,” circulars, 1927, 1937-1945 (Container 58)
BOX OV 19 Criminal Case File
Burke, William, gang
Legal documents, 1885 (Container 84)
Cannon, John, gang
Legal documents, 1870 (Container 86)
Farrington brothers gang
Correspondence and legal documents, 1871 (Container 105)
James-Younger gang
Exhibit material, photograph of maps, undated (Container 123)
BOX OV 20 Proctor, George H., crimes
Legal documents, 1885 (Container 150)
Schoenbein, Maximillian
Legal documents, 1867-1868 (Container 166)
Reports, undated (Container 167)

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