Choctaw Coal and Railway Company

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Collector. Profit-sharing certificates (1906) issued by Sears, Roebuck and Company; and a souvenir program (1922) from the 70th Anniversary celebration of the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad Company held in McAlester, Oklahoma, including a history of the railroad in the area and of North and South McAlester. Mrs. Howard Struble Photograph Collection also in repository.

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Business correspondence and papers (1871-1935) of Fritz Sittell relating to the Choctaw Coal and Railway Company, the Choctaw Trading Company, Sittel's other business interests, and the development of the town of McAlester, Oklahoma; personal correspondence (1871-1943) including letters from Tams Bixby, Peter Pitchlynn, members of the Pitchlynn family, Green McCurtain, Robert L. Owen, Moritz Lippman and others; certificates (1890 & 1900) of Sittell's appointment as a United States Marshal, and as a Special Deputy of Tobucksy County, Choctaw Nation; along with clippings, business cards, a sketch of house floor plans, government documents and biographical materials relating to Sittell's family. Rogers-Neill Photograph Collection also in repository.