One production record book of the Illinois Springfield Watch Company.
Also ink sketch on tracing cloth, showing ground plan and two sections of mound.
Catalog of ethnological material and models prepared by the U. S. Geological Survey for the Industrial University of Illinois, at the request of the Honorable Joseph G. Cannon.
A New York bookseller, Warshaw assembled this collection over nearly fifty years. The Warshaw Collection of Business Americana: Illinois forms part of the Warshaw Collection of Business Americana, Subseries 1.2: Geographical Categories. An overview to the entire Warshaw collection is available here: Warshaw Collection of Business Americana
Item was found by Mr. Woolsey, foreman of a group of Civilian Conservation workers, along the Illinois and Michigan Canal, just east of Marseilles, Illinois. The Head is now at Camp Marseilles, Marseilles, Illinois, in the care of Mr. Battershill.
Includes copy of letter of transmittal. (undated).
Original described by Pilling, Bureau of American Ethnology Bulletin 13, page 50: Manuscript, 4 11. containing 7 unnumbered pages, double columns, 4 , in the Lenox Library. Apparently written in the latter part of the seventeenth or early part of the eighteenth century. On the verso of the last (blank) page is the endorsement "Commencement d'un Dic...