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Alabama. Railroad Commission. Letterbooks, 1881-1902.

Title: Letterbooks, 1881-1902.

The Railroad Commission functions to supervise and regulate railroads in Alabama. These records consist of letterbooks (also known as letterpress copybooks) containing copies of letters sent by the Railroad Commission. Each letterbook is about one inch thick and nine inches by twelve inches in measurement. Most of these letters are replies made to letters received. Appeals against railroads, matters cocnerning freight and passenger tariffs, requests for rulings by railroads on matters of regulations, railroad routes, railroad safety, and many other matters were discussed in these letters. Some of the companies detailed include: Alabama Central Railroad Company, Alabama Great Southern Railroad Company, the Anniston and Cincinnati Railroad Company, Atlantic Coast Line Railroad Company, Birmingham Mineral Railroad Company, Central of Georgia Railroad Company, East Alabama Railway, Georgia Pacific Company, Kansas City, Memphis and Birmingham Railroad Company, L and N Railroad Company, Mobile and Girard Railroad Company, Mobile and Montgomery Railroad Company, Mobile and Ohio Railroad Company, Montgomery and Eufaula Railroad Company, Montgomery and West Point Railroad Company, Nashville and Decatur Railroad Company, Seaboard Air Line Railroad Company, Selma and Greensboro Railroad Company, Selma, Rome and Dalton Railroad Company, South and North Alabama Railroad Company, Southern Railway Company, Talladega and Coosa Valley Railroad Company, Tennessee and Alabama Railroad Company, Western Railway of Alabama, Western Railroad of Alabama, and others.

ArchivalResource: 3 cubic ft. (3 records center cartons, each containing 5 to 7 letterbooks).

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Waddill, George D. (George Daniel). George D. Waddill papers, 1841-1892 (bulk 1861-1865).

Title: George D. Waddill papers, 1841-1892 (bulk 1861-1865).

George Waddill's papers contain military furlough and travel passes; Confederate bonds; a railroad ticket on the Mobile and Ohio Railroad to Enterprise, Alabama; military orders assigning Waddill to hospitals in Meridian and Brookhaven, Mississippi; newspaper clippings; an 1865 document granting parole to G. D. Waddill, granted by the U. S. Commissioner; and an 1865 Oath of Allegiance to the United States, signed by Waddill.

ArchivalResource: 21 items.

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Mobile and Ohio Railroad Company. Mobile and Ohio Railroad Company receipt book, 1855-1856, 1859-1864.

Title: Mobile and Ohio Railroad Company receipt book, 1855-1856, 1859-1864.

This receipt book records freight delivered by the Mobile and Ohio Railroad at the De Soto, Miss., station (1855-1856). The agent's name was apparently Pardue. The volume was later used by a member of the Pardue family for a scrapbook containing newspaper clippings of poetry, stories, illustrations of women's dresses, and articles on bishops of the Methodist Episcopal Church, Confederate General William J. Hardee, and Union candidate for president, John Bell of Tennessee (1859-1864).

ArchivalResource: 1 v.

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Confederate states currency, 1862-1864.

Title: Confederate states currency, 1862-1864.

The collection contains a Virginia treasury note no. 78119 for one dollar, issued 15 May 1862; a State of Florida bearer note no. 10,099 for one dollar, issued 1 March 1863, signed by governor John Milton and treasurer C.H. Austin; Confederate States of America bearer note no. 65375 for fifty dollars, issud 17 February 1864. Also, Asa Holt bearer note no. 9 for fifty cents, issued 1 March 1862, Mobile, Ala.; Mobile and Ohio Railroad Co. bearer note for ten cents when five dollars or its multiple is presented, issued 15 February 1862, Macon, Miss.; and the State of Louisiana, Parish of St. Tammany, bond for twenty-five cents, issued 1 January 18.

ArchivalResource: 6 items.

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Wadsworth, George. Map of Alabama showing its railroads and their connections northeast, 1858.

Title: Map of Alabama showing its railroads and their connections northeast, 1858.

Map, 1858 Sep. 1, covering the area of Ala. extending from the southwestern corner diagonally across the state to the northwestern portion of Ala. A small section of southern Tenn. and the northwestern portion of Ga. are also depicted. No scale is given, but a table of distances for select cities is provided. Topographical features illustrated include mountains, mountain gaps, waterways, bluffs, shoals and bends. Also depicted are communities, post offices, roads, ferries, landings, mines, mills, indian mounds, churches, academies and quarries. The railroads charted include the Mobile & Ohio, the Mobile & Great Northern, the Pensacola & Montgomery, the Alabama & Mississippi, the Alabama & Tennessee River, the Coosa & Tennessee River, the Jacksonville & Dalton, the East Tennessee & Georgia, the Cleveland & Chattanooga, the Nashville & Chattanooga, the Memphis & Charleston, the Western Atlantic, the Montgomery & Westpoint, and the Rome Railroads. Also depicted are the proposed routes of the Northeast & Southwest, and the C. & C. Railroads. Maps are color coded to designate railroads, waterways and roads.

ArchivalResource: 1 map : col., ink on linen, encapsulated ; 49 x 74 cm.

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H. H. Copeland Maps and Tables, 1924-1956

Title: H. H. Copeland Maps and Tables 1924-1956

The Transportation Library's collection of H. H. Copeland and Son's maps consist of 74 maps and tables on U. S. railways dating from the early 1930's to the mid 1950's. The Copeland maps consist of traffic density maps and tables on ton miles, freight density and traffic distribution and other railway related tables and calculations. H. H. Copeland and Sons were an investment house, in existence from the late 19th century to at least the mid 1950's. The company ordered the compilations for the maps and tables to support their own business interests and would not allow the items to be copied.

ArchivalResource: 74.00

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McComb, Henry S., 1825-1881. Papers, 1856-1889.

Title: Papers, 1856-1889.

The surviving papers of Henry S. McComb are fragments that deal with his involvement in the Crédit Mobilier and with his personal investments.

ArchivalResource: 1.0 linear ft.

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Childe family papers 1733-1908 Childe family papers

Title: Childe family papers 1733-1908 Childe family papers

The Childe family papers contain correspondence and documents primarily related to Zachariah Child of West Boylston, Massachusetts, and his son John; John later used the surname "Childe." Early documents relate to the family's land ownership in Shrewsbury and Boylston, Massachusetts, and later correspondence reflects John's career as a railroad engineer, as well as his second wife's efforts to compile his biography.

ArchivalResource: 38 items

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H.H. Copeland and Son. [Copeland railroad survey collection].

Title: [Copeland railroad survey collection]. [1918-1958]

ArchivalResource: ca. 504 pieces (maps with accompanying text) : printed items ; in 2 boxes 27 x 13 x 40 cm.

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Natchez Trace railroad collection, 1837-1913.

Title: Natchez Trace railroad collection, 1837-1913.

Receipts, legal documents, bills of lading, certificates, promissory notes, payment summaries, checks, maps, charts and blueprints document railroad companies operating primarily in Mississippi and Louisiana between 1837 and 1913. While the bulk of the records relate to railroad transportation of people and goods, some identify freight steamboats and document the transfer of cotton and other goods to and from railroad depots. Most of the legal documents are proposed amendments to railroad company charters, although some deal with claims against individuals for delinquent payments to railroad companies. most railroad companies are represented by only a small number of documents in this collection.

ArchivalResource: 4.5 in.

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James Jenkins Gillette Papers, 1857-1884

Title: James Jenkins Gillette Papers 1857-1884

U.S. Army officer, U.S. Army commissioner of subsistence, and U.S. commissioner of claims from Mobile, Alabama. Correspondence, military papers, receipts, court records, and a docket book relating to Gillette’s military service and his activities as claims commissioner.

ArchivalResource: 2,000 items; 6 containers plus 1 oversize; 2.6 linear feet

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Grant, Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson), 1822-1885. ALS, 1864 Nov. 6, City Point, Va., to Henry Wager Halleck.

Title: ALS, 1864 Nov. 6, City Point, Va., to Henry Wager Halleck.

Grant orders attacks on Confederate communications from the Mississippi River and the destruction of the Mobile and Ohio Railroad and the road east from Jackson, Miss. He orders that no troops be sent from the river to the southern coast, but as large a force as possible be sent toward Meridian or Selma.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (1 p.) in album ; 34 cm.

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Alabama Public Service Commission. Administrative files, 1920-1964.

Title: Administrative files, 1920-1964.

This series documents the administrative activities of the Public Service Commission as it carries out its function of supervising and regulating public transportation and utilities. The records consist of correspondence, memoranda, minutes, and reports that provide information on policy, organization, program development, and other administrative functions. Among the services regulated by the Commission are electricity, gas, water, telephone, telegraph, radio, and public transportation, i.e., railroads, buses, truck lines, and taxis. Also included are Interstate Commerce Commission rulings and decisions. The series is arranged by a numerical filing scheme making it necessary to consult the Index to Administrative Files to obtain access to the records. The index is a series of three by five inch note cards that are arranged alphabetically by subject and provide the corresponding file number. (See ALAV90-A192.).

ArchivalResource: 34 cubic ft. (34 records center cartons).

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Alabama. Public Service Commission. Annual and biennial reports.

Title: Annual and biennial reports.

The Public Service Commission functions to supervise and regulate public utilities in Alabama. These reports are primarily annual reports, though from 1915-1919 biennial reports were issued. There are also some gaps, such as those from 1921-1926, 194, 1943-1953, 1966, 1971, and 1992 to the present. The 1881-1919 annual and biennial reports occupy six cubic feet, while the 1920-1991 reports occupy less than two cubic feet. The 1881-1919 reports contain much more information that those from 1920 forward, which are little more than bried statistical summaries. The description therefore concentrates on the earlier and much more informative reports. The pre-1920 reports detailed information that included the rates charged (by railroads until 1915, then by utilities of all kinds), condition of the reailroads, railbed, rolling stock, accidents, the name of the those on the railroad's Board of Directors, the debt and earnings of the railroad, capital stock, and other matters. In 1915 public utilities were added to the responsibilites of the PSC. The annual and biennial reports predating 1920 report primarily on railroads, as the name of the agency did not change until 1915 from Railroad Commission to Public Service Commission (PSC). Many elements about railroads are discussed. Much of the information in the annual and biennial reports came from reports submitted by the railroads themselves, as well as complaints, hearings, decisions, and orders issued first by the Railroad Commission and then by the PSC. Some of the companies detailed include: Alabama Central Railroad Company, Alabama Great Southern Railroad Company, Alabama Power Company, the Anniston and Cincinnati Railroad Company, Atlantic Coast Line Railroad Company, Birminham Mineral Railroad Company, Central of Georgia Railroad Company, East Alabama Railway, Georgia Pacific Company, Kansas City, Memphis and Birmingham Railroad Company, L and N Railroad Company, Mobile and Girard Railroad Company, Mobile and Montgomery Railroad Company, Mobile and Ohio Railroad Company, Montgomery and Eufaula Railroad Company, Montgomery and West Point Railroad Company, Montgomery Light and Traction Company, Nashville and Decatur Railroad Company, Seaboard Air Line Railroad Company, Selma and Greensboro Railroad Company, Selma, Rome and Dalton Railroad Company, South and North Alabama Railroad Company, Southern Bell Telephone and Telegraph Company, Southern Railway Company, Talladega and Coosa Valley Railroad Company, Tennessee and Alabama Railroad Company, Western Railway of Alabama, Western Railroad of Alabama, and others.

ArchivalResource: 7.4 cubic ft. (8 records center cartons).

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Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States Commandery of the State of Massachusetts Civil War collection, 1724-1933 (inclusive); 1861-1912 (bulk).

Title: Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States Commandery of the State of Massachusetts Civil War collection, 1724-1933 (inclusive); 1861-1912 (bulk).

A collection of images, manuscripts, and printed material, mostly relating to the Massachusetts soldiers and regiments in the American Civil War. Some material relates to other Union regiments and the Confederate States of America.

ArchivalResource: 47 linear feet (143 boxes, 2 volumes)

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