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Ancestry.com - U.S., Appointments of U. S. Postmasters, 1832-1971 $

Original source: Record of Appointment of Postmasters, 1832-1971. NARA Microfilm Publication, M841, 145 rolls. Records of the Post Office Department, Record Group Number 28. Washington, D.C.: National Archives. Ancestry.com has searchable indexes; database results and some digitized images are available with a fee-based subscription. Free articles and helpful research materials.

Black Americans in Congress, 1870-2007

Findmypast - United States/Canada- Directory of the Biscuit and Cracker Bakers of the United States and the Dominion of Canada, 1885 $

Findmypast has searchable indexes; database results and some digitized images are available with a fee-based subscription.

Findmypast - United States/Canada- The Blue Book, Textile Directory, 1897-1898 $

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In Pursuit of Adventure: The Fur Trade in Canada and the North West Company.

From McGill University Libraries. In Pursuit of Adventure: The Fur Trade in Canada and the North West Company provides access to the full text of thirty-eight manuscripts collectively known as the Masson Papers. The Masson Papers comprise letters, diaries, travel narratives, and other textual documents relating to the North West Company and the colonial-era fur trade more generally. The papers represent a settler perspective of North American places and peoples.

List of plantations in the United States - Wikipedia

List of plantations in the United States - Wikiwand

Mining Accidents United States, Canada, Australia & New Zealand

600,000 mining accident records (fatal and nonfatal) covering most of the United States, New Zealand, provinces of Alberta, British Columbia, Nova Scotia, Ontario and Quebec in Canada, and provinces of New South Wales and Queensland in Australia. However, about 283,000 of the mine accident records are the state of Pennsylvania. The mining accident records are from the late 1800s through the early 1900s.

The Fur Trade of the Western Great Lakes Region

By Frank E. Ross for Minnesota History Magazine. St. Paul, MN: Minnesota Historical Society, 1938.

U.S. Marshals Service, History

U.S. National Archives - Post Office Reports of Site Locations, 1837–1950

The National Archives Building in Washington, DC, houses surviving report forms sent to postmasters seeking information for the Topographer's Office to use in compiling postal route maps. These records have been reproduced as Microfilm M1126, Post Office Department Records of Site Locations, 1837–1955 (683 rolls). M1126 has been digitized and made available online through the National Archives Catalog (National Archives Identifier 608210).