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Blanton, Burt C., 1897-1986. Survey depicting specific advantages and potentialities for location of proposed chemical plants in Cisco-Eastland-Ranger area in Eastland County, Texas. Prepared for Texas & Pacific Railway Company, Dallas, Texas.

Title: Survey depicting specific advantages and potentialities for location of proposed chemical plants in Cisco-Eastland-Ranger area in Eastland County, Texas. Prepared for Texas & Pacific Railway Company, Dallas, Texas. 1941.

ArchivalResource: 2, 30 l. illus., col. maps. 29 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/3096337 View

Dickenson, G.H. Letters of the Dickenson family [manuscript], 1886, 1922.

Title: Letters of the Dickenson family [manuscript], 1886, 1922.

In a letter, 1886 Aug. 8, James Giles, Austin, Tex., writes to Capt. H.H. Dickenson, Lebanon, Va., about his life since the Civil War, including working as an engineer in Indian Territory for the Texas and Pacific, the Atlantic & Western, Texas Trunk, and the Mexican Railroads. In a letter, 1922 Mar. 3, H.H. Hendricks, Fossil, Ore., writes to G.H. Dickenson, Lebanon, Va., about the business affairs of Dickenson's uncle Lorenza L. Quarles, a sheep rancher.

ArchivalResource: 2 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647817410 View

Sheldon, Lionel A. (Lionel Allen), 1831-1917. Letter to H.H. Bancroft : New Orleans : LS, 1886.

Title: Letter to H.H. Bancroft : New Orleans : LS, 1886.

Concerning the strike on the Texas & Pacific Railway, of which Sheldon and John C. Brown were receivers.

ArchivalResource: Originals : 6 leaves ; 28 cm.Copies : partial microfilm reel (4 exposures) : negative (Rich. 117:18) and positive.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/25903679 View

Transcontinental Association. Memorandum of agreement made and entered into this-- day of-- 1884.

Title: Memorandum of agreement made and entered into this-- day of-- 1884. 1884.

ArchivalResource: 10 sheets, unbound ; 30 cm. + 7 p. (28 cm).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/62869433 View

Dixon, M. H. Dixon, M.H., papers, 1871-1874.

Title: Dixon, M.H., papers, 1871-1874.

Letters from Dixon to Jacob F. Baum describe his work on the Texas and Pacific Railroad in Freestone County, Texas, and his subsequent residence in Dallas.

ArchivalResource: 8 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/34921732 View

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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Gilmore, John Washington, 1872-1942. As I remember it : holograph, [ca. 1932].

Title: As I remember it : holograph, [ca. 1932].

Family history; reminiscences of early life on farms in Arkansas and Texas; his father's work on the Texas and Pacific Railroad in Texas; education in Fort Worth schools and at Cornell. The manuscript ends with his graduation from Cornell in 1898.

ArchivalResource: Originals : 73 leaves in 1 portfolio.Copies : 1 microfilm reel : negative (BNEG Box 2024) and positive.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/214499428 View

Knapp, J. G. Diary, 1872-1873.

Title: Diary, 1872-1873.

Knapp's diary prepared in 1873 while a Madison, Wisconsin, resident from daily notes kept while a member of an exploring party for the Texas and Pacific Railway Company making a preliminary survey in New Mexico and Arizona; including description of vegetation, climate, crops, geology, minerals, agricultural possibilities, and general observations.

ArchivalResource: 0.2 c.f. (1 package)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/145781901 View

Laushe, Jn. Letter : San Diego, Calif., to Wm. A. Wallace, Washington D.C., 1876 Dec. 23.

Title: Letter : San Diego, Calif., to Wm. A. Wallace, Washington D.C., 1876 Dec. 23.

Holograph letter to Senator Wallace in which Laushe writes on behalf of San Diego citizens in support of the extension of the Texas & Pacific Railway through to San Diego; he also expresses the citizens' concern over "Col. Scott's" dealings with them on this matter. Folder includes holograph transcription (2 leaves) of first third of the letter.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (4 leaves) ; 28 cm. or smaller.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/31227855 View

Goheen family collection 1874-1882 1874 Goheen family collection

Title: Goheen family collection 1874-1882 1874 Goheen family collection

This collection contains correspondence between William H. Hipple of the Texas & Pacific Railway Company and the Goheen family of Geneseo, New York, following Edward L. Goheen's death in a railroad accident. The letters reflect the ongoing friendship between Hipple and the Goheens after their mutual bereavement. Also included are two additional letters to Patience Doty Goheen, Edward's mother; a newspaper clipping about Edward's death; and a broadside advertisement for a railroad ticket agent.

ArchivalResource: 19 items

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Blanton, Burt C., 1897-1986. Survey depicting specific advantages for location of proposed defense plant in Dallas-Fort Worth area. Prepared for Texas & Pacific Railway Company, Dallas, Texas.

Title: Survey depicting specific advantages for location of proposed defense plant in Dallas-Fort Worth area. Prepared for Texas & Pacific Railway Company, Dallas, Texas. 1942.

ArchivalResource: 1, 49 l. col. illus., col. maps. 29 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/3061699 View

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.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/729541089 View

Barlow, Samuel L. M. (Samuel Latham Mitchill), 1826-1889. Papers of Samuel L. M. Barlow, 1776-1905 (bulk 1885-1889).

Title: Papers of Samuel L. M. Barlow, 1776-1905 (bulk 1885-1889).

Personal and professional papers of Samuel L. M. Barlow. The collection contains letters (including 53 tissue copy letter books), documents, records, and manuscripts and documents Barlow's legal, business, and political career, and his cultural and social pursuits. Barlow's legal and business papers constitute the bulk of the collection and cover 1855-1889. This portion of the collection deals with financing, building and management of railroads -- both Eastern and Western divisions of the Ohio and Mississippi, the Atlantic ? Barlow's lobbying on behalf of Texas and Pacific Railroad Company and the Pacific Mail Steamship Company; his involvement the affairs of the Tehuantepec railroad route in Mexico, mining promotions and operations, including the notorious Arizona diamond hoax; land speculation (farm lands in Illinois, Iowa, and Ohio and urban properties in St. Louis, Mo.); his patronage of the New York subway and telephone enterprises, and his part ownership of the New York World. Political and military correspondence and manuscripts cover Barlow's involvement in Democratic politics at both national and state levels, that started in 1856 and continued until his death. The papers deal with Barlow's role in the nomination of James Buchanan for President (1856) and his administration; Democratic National Convention at Charleston (1860); George McClellan's presidential bid, the National Union Club, congressional elections, Tilden, Hancock, and Cleveland campaigns (1876-1886). This portion of the collection also contains reports from the Eastern theatre of the Civil War that Barlow received from his agents in the field. Among the correspondents are William T. Sherman, and T.J. Barnett, a minor official at the Department of the Interior and the Washington correspondent of the New York Journal of commerce, who provided an insight into Lincoln's White House. Also included are items reflecting Barlow's role in social and cultural life of New York -- his friendship with William Cullen Bryant and Bret Harte, patronage of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the New York Academy of Music, and the New York Historical Society, his collections of colonial Americana and rare books, etc.

ArchivalResource: 211 boxes, including 7 boxes of miscellanea and ephemera.Approximately 29,000 pieces.

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Gibson, Charles. Papers, ca. 1973.

Title: Papers, ca. 1973.

Consists of research materials used in the writing of Gibson's Master's thesis on organized labor in Texas from 1890-1900. Includes photocopies of materials from the Barker Texas History Collection at the University of Texas at Austin and from the Archives and Manuscripts Division of the University of Texas at Arlington.

ArchivalResource: 459 leaves

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/24282144 View

Southwest Compress and Warehouse Association. Records, 1913-1974 1932-1973.

Title: Records, 1913-1974 1932-1973.

Includes correspondence, legal and financial material, printed materials, photographs and literary productions pertaining to the association's workings within the Texas, Southern, and U.S. cotton industry. Collection bulks with correspondence between Frank Brooks, the General Counsel and Secretary of the association, and other directing members of the organization, and with other cotton-related businesses with which the orgainization had dealings. Of particular interest are documents outlining preferred political candidates in Texas elections, as well as correspondence dealing with tariffs, loading, marking and shipping problems, and legislative issues affecting the cotton industry.

ArchivalResource: ca. 16,000 leaves

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/23105352 View

Santa Fe Railroad Collection RG D 004., 1897-1968

Title: Santa Fe Railroad Collection 1897-1968

Records of the Gulf, Colorado, and Santa Fe Railroad Company, 1897-1968. Part 1 of 7.

ArchivalResource:

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Sheldon, Lionel A. (Lionel Allen), 1831-1917. Lionel A. Sheldon biographical material and essay, military genius, [1888].

Title: Lionel A. Sheldon biographical material and essay, military genius, [1888].

Concerning his Civil War experiences, political life in Ohio and Louisiana, governorship of New Mexico Territory, receivership of the Texas Pacific Railway and interests in Southern California. Biographical sketch in H.H. Bancroft's handwriting and letter from E.W. Fowler included.

ArchivalResource: Originals : 4 folders in portfolio.Copies : partial microfilm reel (38 exposures) : negative (Rich. 98:6) and positive.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/25740957 View

Texas railroads record of rights-of-way, 1887-1899.

Title: Texas railroads record of rights-of-way, 1887-1899.

Ledger.

ArchivalResource: [56], 640 p. ; 47 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/32164265 View

General Committee of Adjustment of the Texas and Pacific Railway. Minutes, 1886-1909.

Title: Minutes, 1886-1909.

Minutes: volume 1, January 1, 1886 - September 15, 1902; volume 2, October 8, 1903 - February 20, 1909.

ArchivalResource: 2 v. ; 37 cm. or smaller.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/21181308 View

Transportation -- Texas and Pacific Railroad.

Title: Transportation -- Texas and Pacific Railroad.

ArchivalResource: 1 file folder.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/310380318 View

Jones, Lee, Jr. Papers, 1875-1981.

Title: Papers, 1875-1981.

Consists of research material pertaining to the history of Colorado City, Texas and West Texas which include references to Preston C. Burchard, C. P. Conaway, C. H. Earnest, Mary C. Jones, R. H. Looney, A. B. Robertson, W. P. Ruddick, Winfield Scott, and Daniel Webster Wallace.

ArchivalResource: 4,403 leaves

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/25106429 View

Texas & Pacific Railway. Property of T. & P. R'way Co. in the town of Pilot Point, Denton Co., Texas : manuscript [188-?].

Title: Property of T. & P. R'way Co. in the town of Pilot Point, Denton Co., Texas : manuscript [188-?].

ArchivalResource: 1 map ; 44 x 49 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/80018049 View

Blanton, Burt C., 1897-1986. Survey depicting specific advantages for location of proposed defense plant at Millsap, Texas. Prepared for Texas & Pacific Railway Company, Dallas, Texas.

Title: Survey depicting specific advantages for location of proposed defense plant at Millsap, Texas. Prepared for Texas & Pacific Railway Company, Dallas, Texas. 1942.

ArchivalResource: 1, 41 l. col. maps. 29 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/3129336 View

Santa Fe Railroad Collection RG D 004., 1897-1968

Title: Santa Fe Railroad Collection 1897-1968

Records of the Gulf, Colorado, and Santa Fe Railroad Company, 1897-1968. Part 2 of 7.

ArchivalResource:

http://www.lib.utexas.edu/taro/houpub/00008/00008p2-P.html View

Willrich, George. George Willrich law brief collection : Court of Civil Appeals of the Third Supreme Judicial District of Texas, 1889-1916.

Title: George Willrich law brief collection : Court of Civil Appeals of the Third Supreme Judicial District of Texas, 1889-1916.

ArchivalResource: 22 items ; 21-27 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/48460845 View

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

http://www.lib.ncsu.edu/findingaids/mc00374 View

Mason, Polly, 1855-1974,. Polly Mason oral history interview, 1971.

Title: Polly Mason oral history interview, 1971.

In the interview, Mason describes her master, Judge Henry Boyce, and her life on his cotton plantation in Boyce, Louisiana. Included are her memories of northern soldiers in Louisiana during the Civil War, her sadness upon the assassination of President Lincoln, the establishment of a station for the Texas and Pacific railroad in the area, and her first view of an airplane.

ArchivalResource: 1 sound cassette (45 minutes);Interviewer's essay (10 leaves)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/244443352 View

Henry Carter Adams papers

Title: Henry Carter Adams papers

Professor of economics at University of Michigan, 1880-1921, statistician for the Interstate Commerce Commission, 1887-1911, developed standard accounting procedures for railroads. Papers include personal and professional correspondence, diaries, travel journals, drafts of books, letter books, reports and printed materials concerning his work with the Interstate Commerce Commission, his activities as an expert witness in railroad compensation and tax cases, and University of Michigan affairs.

ArchivalResource: 30.3 linear ft.

http://quod.lib.umich.edu/b/bhlead/umich-bhl-851790?rgn=main;view=text View

Smith, John Peter, 1831-1901. John Peter Smith dictation : Fort Worth, Texas, 1885.

Title: John Peter Smith dictation : Fort Worth, Texas, 1885.

To Texas in 1853 when troops were leaving Fort Worth for Fort Belknap; first school teacher in Fort Worth; clerk, surveyor, and lawyer; mayor from 1882. Recounts participation of Fort Worth citizens in completing the Texas & Pacific in 1875-1876.

ArchivalResource: Originals : 7 leaves ; 28 cm.Copies : partial microfilm reel (5 exposures) : negative (Rich. 117:16) and positive.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/26080563 View