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Land speculation

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Scope Note: https://lccn.loc.gov/sh97003802

Found in 4 Collections and/or Records:

Chester Walbridge Letter, 1843 January 30

 File — Box 4267.004: [Barcode: 1005680415], oversize-folder: 4
Scope and Contents

This file contains a letter from Chester Walbridge in Toledo, Ohio, to Adolphus Kreamer in Hartford, Ottawa County, Ontario, inquiring about prices in a land speculation there and requesting repayment of money owed from a prior business transaction. Walbridge says he has already written to Kreamer three times about the matter, and has still received no answer.

Dates: 1843 January 30
Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections / Wade Hall Collection on Business and Finance

Letter from Geo Stubb to Ren S. S. Clark, 1905 December 15

 File — Box 4267.002: [Barcode: 1005680108], Folder: 11
Scope and Contents

This file contains one two-page letter from Geo Stubb in Alphena, Michigan, to Ren S. S. Clark in Detroit, asking Clark to participate in developing and selling plots of land Stubb owns on Lake Eream.

Dates: 1905 December 15
Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections / Wade Hall Collection on Business and Finance

Letters to Sophie M. Taylor, 1941, 1944, 1951

 File — Box 4267.003: [Barcode: 1005680106], Folder: 6
Scope and Contents

This file contains five typed letters to Miss Sophie M. Taylor of Woodhull, Illinois, from two individuals at companies in Kansas regarding the lease or sale of land for oil and gas speculation. Two of the letters are from M. K. Cardell at Citizens State/Exchange Bank in Little River, Kansas, sent in 1941 and 1944. Three are from Earl M. Knighton, Oil and Gas Leases, Wichita, Kansas.

Dates: 1941, 1944, 1951
Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections / Wade Hall Collection on Business and Finance

Norfolk County, Virginia Documents

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-1053
Abstract

A petition dated 1755 for the valuation of land on which sat Robert Tucker's mill, and a summons for Isaac Moore and his wife Ann in the matter of Richard Harris, executor of estate of David Dears, vs. Robert Barr.

Dates: 1755
Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections