Volume 21
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Meigs, Montgomery C., 1816-1892
label: Collection Photographer
content: Russell, Andrew J., 1829-1902
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content: Montgomery C. Meigs Papers
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content: Montgomery C. Meigs Papers / Series 1: Scrapbooks
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1884 December 10 to 1885 May 3
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content: Box 11
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives Center, National Museum of American History
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content: Archival materials
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content: Text
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content: Volume 21 is a bound scrapbook with numbered pages and an index. It consists  mostly of newspaper clippings and illustrations, and some handwritten notes.

The most common topic appearing in Volume 21 is the Sudan campaign and the death of British General Gordon. Volume 21 also contains articles about construction projects, especially the Washington Aqueduct and the Pension Building, both of which Meigs worked on. There are clippings that relate to the health and finances of General Ulysses Grant, and the inauguration of Grover Cleveland.

Some of the publications featured in Volume 21 includeThe Daily Evening Telegraph, the The New-York Daily Tribune, The Washington Post, The Daily Graphic, and The National Republican.