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Edwin Shearin Railroad Memorabilia Collection, 1931-1981

Title: Edwin Shearin Railroad Memorabilia Collection 1931-1981

Amassed through a life of collecting, the Edwin Shearin Railroad Memorabilia Collection covers 50 years of railroading in America. With the help of friends and family, Edwin Shearin compilied the various pieces of railroad memorabilia held within this collection.

ArchivalResource: 2.0 Linear feet

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Perkins, William Robertson, 1875-1945. Papers, 1903-1945.

Title: Papers, 1903-1945.

Correspondence, legal papers, genealogical material, memorial resolutions, abstract of title to the proposed site of the Jamestown Exposition, articles, and other papers, chiefly relating to Perkins' position as personal legal counselor to James Buchanan Duke and the Duke family, including papers relating to state and federal tax litigation of the Duke family, lawsuit of George D. Haskell against the Duke estate (1926-1929) and Haskell vs. Aluminum Company of America (1926-1929), and Duke's proposed extension of the Piedmont and Northern Railway. Correspondents include George Garland Allen, Arthur Vining Davis, and William States Lee.

ArchivalResource: 5, 709 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/20019508 View

Piedmont and Northern Railway Company. Records, 1910-1968.

Title: Records, 1910-1968.

Records of the Piedmont and Northern Railway Company (incomplete), which operated in North Carolina and South Carolina, 1910-1969. Materials includes operating reports and balance sheets, stockholder information, publications, legal documents, correspondence, and photographs. This collection contains various records of the Piedmont and Northern Railway Company and its predecessor lines, including the Greenville, Spartanburg & Anderson Railway (which eventually became known as the South Carolina division) and the Piedmont Traction Company (which became the North Carolina division). Also includes information on streetcar systems operated by the P & N in Anderson, S.C., and Gastonia, N.C.

ArchivalResource: 15 linear feet (ca. 27,000 items, including 32 v. and photographs)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/46635861 View

Nicholls, Samuel Jones. Papers, 1907-1918.

Title: Papers, 1907-1918.

Papers of S.J. Nicholls and of his father and law partner, George W. Nicholls, concerning S.J. Nicholls' work as secretary-treasurer of the Spartanburg County Fair Association, 1907-1908; the legal affairs of the Greenville, Spartanburg, and Anderson Railway and its parent company, the Piedmont and Northern Railway, 1912-1913; S.J. Nicholls' campaign for election to the U.S. Congress, 1914-1915; and the death of his brother, William Montague Nicholls, in the British Royal Field Artillery, 1915. The papers of George W. Nicholls concern legal business of the Greenville, Spartanburg, and Anderson Railway, 1914-1915; and his responsibilities as city attorney of Spartanburg, S.C., including an attempt, 1917, to refund municipal bonds and reform the city's tax system and cases pertaining to the misconduct of troops from Camp Wadsworth, a World War I training center located near Spartanburg.

ArchivalResource: 5,573 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/20030559 View

Writing Our Own History collection, 1992.

Title: Writing Our Own History collection, 1992.

Original handwritten and typed copies of essays written by Charlotte senior citizens in courses sponsored by Central Piedmont Community College in 1992-94. These are personal accounts of growing up during the Prohibition era and the Depression and of life during World War II.

ArchivalResource: ca. 320 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/46931732 View