Riggs family papers, 1763-1945 (Library of Congress Finding Aid)

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Container	Contents

	Romulus Riggs (1882-1846) Papers, 1821-1882 (continued)
		Business Papers, 1810-1847 (continued)
			Cyrus T. Smith estate
BOX 78-82		Miscellany, 1846-1882
BOX 78-82			Estate papers, list of Illinois land holdings, printed matter, and other miscellaneous items.
			Grouped by type of material and arranged chronologically therein where possible.
BOX 78			Estate papers
				Letterbooks
				1846, Oct.-1850, Aug.
					(3 folders)
BOX 79				1850, Aug.-1882, Nov.
BOX 79					(2 folders)
				1864
BOX 80				1847-1851
BOX 80					(7 folders)
BOX 81				1852-1865, undated
BOX 81					(3 folders)
				List of land holdings
BOX 82			List of Illinois land holdings
			Printed matter
			Will
BOX 82-109	Thomas Riggs (1873-1945) Papers, 1887-1945
BOX 82-84		Diaries, 1892-1944
BOX 82-84			Diaries.
			Chronologically arranged.
BOX 82			1892-1899
BOX 82				(4 folders)
BOX 83			1902-1936
BOX 83				(4 folders)
BOX 84			1937-1944
BOX 84				(3 folders)
BOX 84-86		Family Correspondence, 1887-1944
BOX 84-86			Letters received.
			Chronologically arranged.
BOX 84			1887-1899
BOX 84				(4 folders)
BOX 85			1900-1939
BOX 85				(10 folders)
BOX 86			1940-1944, undated
BOX 86				(3 folders)
BOX 86-101		General Correspondence, 1889-1945
BOX 86-101			Letters received.
			Chronologically arranged.
BOX 86			1889-1916
BOX 86				(6 folders)
BOX 87			1917-1919, Apr.
BOX 87				(9 folders)
BOX 88			1919, May-1921
BOX 88				(9 folders)
BOX 89			1922-1926
BOX 89				(11 folders)
BOX 90			1927-1931
BOX 90				(11 folders)
BOX 91			1932-1934, Feb.
BOX 91				(10 folders)
BOX 92			1934, Mar.-1935, Apr. 10
BOX 92				(9 folders)
BOX 93			1935, Apr. 11-Dec. 14
BOX 93				(10 folders)
BOX 94			1935, Dec. 16-1936, Nov. 20
BOX 94				(8 folders)
BOX 95			1936, Nov. 21-1937, Nov.
BOX 95				(10 folders)
BOX 96			1937, Dec.-1939, Feb. 14
BOX 96				(9 folders)
BOX 97			1939, Feb. 18-1940, Nov. 15
BOX 98			1940, Nov. 16-1942, Mar.
BOX 98				(10 folders)
BOX 99			1942, Apr.-1943, Feb.
BOX 99				(10 folders)
BOX 100			1943, Mar.-1944, Apr.
BOX 100				(10 folders)
BOX 101			1944, May-1945, Jan., undated
BOX 101				(7 folders)
			Letters to the editor
			Correspondence of persons other than Thomas Riggs, Jr.
BOX 102-103		Subject File
BOX 102-103			Papers relating to the Alaskan Engineering Commission, Eskimos, and mining interests.
			Arranged by subject.
BOX 102-103			Alaskan Engineering Commission, 1917
BOX 102-103				(2 folders)
			Eskimos
			Mining interests
				Alaska Juneau Gold Mining Co.
				Bell Mine
				Continental-Kirkland Mine
				Gold and Silver Circle Mines
BOX 103				Gold and Silver Circle Mines
				Macassa Mines
				Mines and Commerce of Delaware
				Missouri-McKee Mines
					(3 folders)
				Portland Canal Mining Property
				Two-In-One Gold Mines, Ltd.
BOX 104-105		Speech, Article, and Book File
BOX 104-105			Speeches, articles, the manuscript of a book edited by Riggs, and similar materials.
			Arranged by category.
			Unpublished autobiography available on microfilm. Microfilm shelf no. 16,175
BOX 104			Speeches
				“Alaska and Western Canada”
				“The Man Who Was Through”
				1918, July 4
				1921, Mar. 9
				1936, Oct. 21
				Untitled and undated
			Articles
				“Alaska”
				“Alaska and the Refugee Problem”
				“Alaska As It Is”
				“The Alaska Boundary”
				“Alaska for the Pioneers”
				“The Alaska Highway”
				“Alaska Missionaries”
				“The Ascent of Glacier Peak”
				“Bishop Rowe–As an Alaskan Sees Him”
				“The Confessions of a Conspirator”
				“Earthquake”
				“Educate Congress”
				“Forgotten Alaska”
				“The International Boundary and the Hudson's Bay Co.”
				“Memo on the Rush-Bagot Agreement, 1817-1818"
				“Musings of an Amateur Economist”
				“My Narrowest Escape from Death”
				“19-?”
				“The Problem of Alaska”
				“The Reception to the King and Queen at the White House, 1939, June 9”
				“Running the Alaska Boundary”
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