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Alvin A. Lawrence, Papers, undated, 1896-1993

Title: Alvin A. Lawrence Papers undated, 1896-1993

The papers consist of drawings done by Alvin A. Lawrence of Columbus, Ohio, of locomotives and cars of the New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad and its predecessor rairoad lines for publications sponsored by the New Haven Railroad Historical and Technical Association, particularly for its magazine Shoreliner.

ArchivalResource: 14.0 Linear feet; Two large flat folders, two flat boxes, one .5 archives box and one tube, of drawings, diagrams and photographs of railroad locomotives and cars, almost all belonging to the New Haven Railroad and its predecessor companies.

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New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad Predecessor Company Collection., undated, 1815-1907.

Title: New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad Predecessor Company Collection. undated, 1815-1907.

The collection holds documents related to early southern New England railroads, particularly those that were predecessor lines of the New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad, including the Boston, Hartford and Erie Railroad; the Boston and New York Airline Railroad; the Central New England Railway; the Charles River Railroad; the Chicago and Evanston Railroad; the Connecticut River Railroad; the Hartford and New Haven Railroad; the Hartford, Providence and Fishkill Railroad; the Housatonic Railroad; the Housantonic and Naugatuck Railroad; the Meriden and Cromwell Railroad; the Meriden, Waterbury, and Connecticut River Railroad; the Naugatuck Railroad; the New Haven and Derby Railroad; the New Haven and Northern Railroad; the New Haven and Northampton Company; the New York and New England Railroad; the New York and New Haven Railroad; the New York, Providence and Boston Railroad; the Newburgh, Dutchess and Connecticut Railroad; the Norfolk County Railroad; the Philadelphia, Reading, and New England Railroad; and the Poughkeepsie and Eastern Railway. The collection also includes correspondence Julius Wadsworth, who operated a New York based bond brokerage that heavily invested in railroads and Charles F. Pond, president of the Hartford and New Haven Railroad.

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Don Ball, Jr. Railroad Photograph Collection., undated, 1895-1975.

Title: Don Ball, Jr. Railroad Photograph Collection. undated, 1895-1975.

Don Ball, Jr. (1938-1986) was a railroad employee and photographer and author of books about railroads. The collection consists of several hundred photographic images, taken by Mr. Ball, of locomotives, stations, and railroad related scenes of the New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad and other New England and eastern United States railroad lines.

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Lyndon A. Haight, Collection of the, Central New England Railway, 1886-1956

Title: Lyndon A. Haight Collection of the Central New England Railway 1886-1956

The collection consists of photocopies of timetables, maps, posters, correspondence and historical writings about the Central New England Railway, gathered by Lyndon A. Haight as research materials.

ArchivalResource: 4.6 Linear feet

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Seth P. Holcombe, Papers, Bulk, 1946-1953, undated, 1887, 1946-1953

Title: Seth P. Holcombe Papers Bulk, 1946-1953 undated, 1887, 1946-1953

The Papers consist of approximately 350 photographic prints and 500 negatives of images of steam locomotives mostly of the New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad, taken in the Hartford, Connecticut, area.

ArchivalResource: 2.5 Linear feet; Five boxes of photographic prints and negatives

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William P. McDermott Railroad Collection., 1835-1903.

Title: William P. McDermott Railroad Collection. 1835-1903.

The collection consists of payroll vouchers, traffic vouchers, correspondence, deposit slips, financial documents andother materials associated with the Hartford & New Haven Railroad, the Central New England Railway, the Philadephia, Reading & New EnglandRailroad, the New York & Boston Railroad and other railroad lines in southern New England and eastern New York. Some of the correspondence is to John Brock, president of the Central New England Railway.

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Richard C. Carpenter Papers, 1889-2001.

Title: Richard C. Carpenter Papers 1889-2001.

Richard C. Carpenter is the author of , a four volume set published by Johns Hopkins University Press. The papers include handdrawn original railroad track and signal maps drawn by Mr. Carpenter, Henry T. Wilhelm and William Bruce Coughlin, of railroads in the Mid-Atlantic States, New York and New England, and Indiana, Lower Michigan, and Ohio, that Mr. Carpenter used for research for the atlas. A Railroad Atlas of the United States in 1946

ArchivalResource: 33.0 Linear feet

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University Railroad Collection, undated, 1841-1993.

Title: University Railroad Collection undated, 1841-1993.

This is an artificial collection of publications, timetables, forms, reports, track diagrams and charts, equipment blueprints, maps, drawings and artwork, and photographs almost exclusively associated with the New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad and its predecessor railroad lines, gathered from many donors and purchases.

ArchivalResource: 65.0 Linear feet

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Richard Symonds, Collection of Connecticut Railroads Annual Reports, 1886-1910

Title: Richard Symonds Collection of Connecticut Railroads Annual Reports 1886-1910

Collection consists of annual reports submitted by approximately 80 Connecticut railroads and street railroads to the State Railroad Commission and the Public Utilities Commission. Reports include brief histories of the companies, lists of company organizations, officer and property owners, track information, and financial data.

ArchivalResource: 21.0 Linear feet

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New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad Records, undated, 1760-1980

Title: New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad Records undated, 1760-1980

The corporate records of the New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad document the history and impact of the system that dominated railroad transportation in southern New England from 1872 to 1969.

ArchivalResource: 3050.0 Linear feet

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Thomas R. Lewis Railroad Collection., 1855-1974.

Title: Thomas R. Lewis Railroad Collection. 1855-1974.

Thomas R. Lewis is the author of Silk Along Steel: the Story of the South Manchester Railroad (Pequot Press, 1976). The collection consists of newclippings, timetables, correspondence, writings, photographs and postcards Dr. Lewis gathered for the writing of his book.

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Rudberg Research Collection of the Central New England Railway, 2002-2013

Title: Rudberg Research Collection of the Central New England Railway 2002-2013

The collection consists of tour guidebooks compiled by Bernard L. Rudberg of photocopies of photographs, maps, correspondence, and documents related to the history of the Central New England Railway, which ran from Maybrook, New York, to Hartford, Connecticut, in the period between 1898 and 1927, at which point it was taken over by the New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad. Mr. Rudberg creates the books for the participants of an annual guided bus tour he coordinates, in April or May of each year beginning in 2002, that follows portions of the old railway line, and provides information about the towns on the route, train wrecks that occurred, old carbarns, turntables and roundhouses, and such features as the Poughkeepsie River Bridge.

ArchivalResource: 0.75 Linear feet

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Leroy Y. Beaujon, Railroad Collection, undated, 1868-1971

Title: Leroy Y. Beaujon Railroad Collection undated, 1868-1971

Payroll vouchers and correspondence pertaining to the Central New England Railway, the Philadelphia, Reading & New England Railroad, and the Hartford and Connecticut Western Railroad. Also includes public and employee timetables of the New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad, western region.

ArchivalResource: 30.0 Linear feet

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Thomas Townsend Taber III Papers., undated, 1896-2004.

Title: Thomas Townsend Taber III Papers. undated, 1896-2004.

Author of books on railroads in the United States and compiler of information on how to find research materials about railroads in libraries and archives. The Papers contains three volumes of photocopies of newspaper articles about topics pertaining to the New Haven Railroad and its predecessor lines and indexes and lists compiled by Mr. Taber about the availability of research material and locomotives.

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Francis D. Donovan Papers., undated, 1829-1997.

Title: Francis D. Donovan Papers. undated, 1829-1997.

Francis D. Donovan (1917-2005) was a resident of Medway, Massachusetts, and an avid railroad photograph and memorabilia collector and researcher, particularly of materials associated with the New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad and its predecessor lines. His papers consist of his writings and research files about the railroad; photographs of stations, engines, and railroad scenes; maps, scrapbooks, postcards and timetables.

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William B. Young, Collection of the, Connecticut Company, undated, 1872-2012

Title: William B. Young Collection of the Connecticut Company undated, 1872-2012

The collection consists of correspondence, maps, photographic images, car rosters, administrative reports, and other materials about trolley and street railroad cars and the history of the Connecticut Company, which controlled fourteen divisions of street railroad companies across the state of Connecticut from 1905 to 1948. These documents were collected by William B. Young who compiled this information for a comprehensive database about the company's trolley cars.

ArchivalResource: 12.0 Linear feet

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Elmer F. Farnham Railroad Collection., undated, 1966.

Title: Elmer F. Farnham Railroad Collection. undated, 1966.

Elmer F. Farnham was a resident of Norwich, Connecticut, and a features writer for the . He was author of , published in 1973 by Pequot Press. The collection consists of photographs of locomotives and railroad scenes of the Norwich & Worcestor Railroad, the Central Vermont Railway, and other southern New England railroads. Norwich Bulletin The Quickest Route: The History of the Norwich & Worcester Railroad

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