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• Author/Creator:United States. President (1861-1865 : Lincoln)
  
• Title:Document appointing Timothy J. Carter as a director of the Union and Pacific Railroad Company : Washington (D.C.), 1863 Oct.
  
• Physical Description:1 item (1 p.) ; 26 cm.
  
• Links:View a digital version in the Beinecke Library's Digital Images Online database
  

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  • Location:BEINECKE (Non-Circulating)
    Request for Use in the Beinecke Reading Room
    
    
  • Call Number: WA MSS S-1811 Un3751
    
  • Status:Not Checked Out
    

   
• Summary:Holograph document signed on Executive Mansion letterhead in which Lincoln appoints Timothy J. Carter as a director to represent the interests of the United States on the board of the Union and Pacific Railroad Company. Lincoln cites the "Act to aid in the construction of a RailRoad and Telegraph Line from the Missouri River to the Pacific Ocean, and to secure to the Government the use of the same for Postal, Military and other Purposes," giving him authority to appoint the position. Accompanied by a reproduction by Bachrach of a photographic portrait of Lincoln.
  
• Format:Archives or Manuscripts
• Cite as:United States President (1861-1865 : Lincoln) Document Appointing Timothy J. Carter as a Director of the Union and Pacific Railroad Company. Western Americana Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.
  
• Subjects:Carter, Timothy J. fl. 1863.
  Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865--Pictorial works.
  Union Pacific Railroad Company.
  Pacific railroads.
  Railroads--West (U.S.)
  United States--Officials and employees--Selection and appointment.
  
• Also listed under:Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865.