Galveston and Texas History Center
 Rosenberg Library

Correspondence, news clips, minutes of meetings, reports, and scrapbooks from the career of Edmund Reed Cheesborough, Galveston Postmaster, Secretary-Treasurer of Leon and H. Blum Land Company, Secretary of the Grade Raising Board of the City of Galveston, and member of the East-end flats improvement committee. Majority of papers concern grade raising activities, and scrpabooks of newspaper coverage of the raising are included.

Only those items referencing to the grade raising activities are listed in this partial inventory. Please contact the GTHC regarding additional material in the collection.