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Northern Pacific Railway Company. Northern Pacific Railway corporate records, 1861-1970.

Title: Northern Pacific Railway corporate records, 1861-1970.

Corporate records of the St. Paul-based Northern Pacific, its predecessors, and its subsidiaries and affiliates, documenting their operations across the northern tier of western states for more than one hundred years, until its 1970 merger with the Great Northern, the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy, and the Spokane, Portland and Seattle that formed the Burlington Northern.

ArchivalResource: 10,600 cu. ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/313854392 View

Western Union Telegraph Company. Salary ledger, 1881-1884.

Title: Salary ledger, 1881-1884.

Ledger giving wage information for managers, operators, and other employees at telegraph offices in cities and towns in Minnesota, Michigan, Wisconsin, Iowa, Dakota Territory, Montana Territory, Washington Territory, and Manitoba.

ArchivalResource: 0.2 cu. ft. (1 v. in partial box).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/81991583 View

St. Paul Board of Trade. St. Paul Board of Trade records, 1888-1899.

Title: St. Paul Board of Trade records, 1888-1899.

Records of receipts of carload lots, with an enumeration of articles shipped, of the following railroads: Chicago, Burlington, and Northern; Chicago, Milwaukee, and St. Paul; Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis, and Omaha; Minneapolis and St. Louis; Minneapolis, St. Paul, and Sault Ste. Marie; Northern Pacific; St. Paul and Duluth; and Wisconsin Central.

ArchivalResource: 1.25 cu. ft. (2 boxes, containing 2 folders and 4 v.).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122524197 View

Edwin W. Winter papers., 1870-1923.

Title: Edwin W. Winter papers. 1870-1923.

Correspondence and related papers of this railroad officialin Wisconsin, St. Paul, and New York, largely documenting his years as assistantpresident and general manager of the Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis, and OmahaRailway Company (1880-1896), as president of the Northern Pacific Railway Company(1896-1897), and as president of the Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company(1903-1911).

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http://www.mnhs.org/library/findaids/P1451.xml View

Winter, Edwin W. (Edwin Wheeling), 1845-1930. Edwin W. Winter papers, 1870-1923.

Title: Edwin W. Winter papers, 1870-1923.

Correspondence and related papers of this railroad official in Wisconsin, St. Paul, and New York, largely documenting his years as assistant president and general manager of the Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis, and Omaha Railway Company (1880-1896), as president of the Northern Pacific Railway Company (1896-1897), and as president of the Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company (1903-1911).

ArchivalResource: 1.25 cu. ft. (3 boxes, incl. 5 v.; 17 oversize items).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122416447 View

Gillespie and Harper Company (Stillwater, Minn.). Company records, 1874-1890.

Title: Company records, 1874-1890.

Records of this lumbering and logging firm owned by Abram L. Gillespie and Aaron A. Harper, including delivery agreements, orders for log drives and timber cutting, contracts, deeds, logging permits, receipts and invoices, scale of logs cut (1875), employees' time book (1890), journal (1883-1885), and letters and legal papers regarding the company's steamboat, the "Nina."

ArchivalResource: 0.5 cu. ft. (1 box and 1 oversize item)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122411805 View

St. Paul and Duluth Railroad Company. Misc. subject files, 1869-1905 (bulk 1890s).

Title: Misc. subject files, 1869-1905 (bulk 1890s).

Documenting a NP subsidiary line operating in Minnesota, this series contains unnumbered subject files arranged in alphabetical order, dating mostly from the 1890s and covering mainly railway line infrastructure, particularly within certain towns and municipalities.

ArchivalResource: 1.5 cu. ft. (2 boxes).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/313867049 View

United States. Stillwater Land District (Minn.). Correspondence: Letters received from GLO, 1848-1893.

Title: Correspondence: Letters received from GLO, 1848-1893.

Letters received by the register and receiver of the Stillwater land district from the commissioner of the General Land Office. They include letters of transmission and acknowledgment, instructions to the register and receiver, decisions of the land commissioner and secretary of the interior in contested cases, and notices of approval or rejection of land entries.

ArchivalResource: 4.0 cu. ft. (4 boxes).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122522395 View

Great Northern Railway Company records., 1854-1970.

Title: Great Northern Railway Companyrecords. 1854-1970.

The corporate records of the St. Paul-based Great NorthernRailway, its predecessors, and its subsidiaries and affiliates, document itsoperations across the northern tier of western states for more than one hundredyears, until its 1970 merger with the Northern Pacific, the Chicago, Burlington andQuincy, and the Spokane, Portland and Seattle that formed the Burlington Northern.

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http://www.mnhs.org/library/findaids/00901.xml View

Musser-Sauntry Land, Logging and Manufacturing Company (Muscatine, Iowa). Company records, 1857-1935.

Title: Company records, 1857-1935.

Correspondence (1886-1902), agreements and deeds (1857-1916), ledger (1903-1910), journals (1885-1889, 1905-1910), Wisconsin land records (1886-1934), annual statements (1898-1911), and related papers of this company operating in Minnesota and Wisconsin. They contain information on land acquisition, sale, and taxation; timber estimates; logging and log driving; logging camp operations; and log sales. This firm was a Weyerhaeuser affiliate.

ArchivalResource: 2.75 cu. ft. (6 boxes).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122508674 View

Dodge, Joseph Thompson, 1823-1904. Papers [microform], 1845-1899.

Title: Papers [microform], 1845-1899.

Professional and personal papers of a civil engineer related to railroad building in Wisconsin, Minnesota, and Montana. Letter books contain letters to superiors and subordinates on technical aspects such as locations of lines, costs, legal problems, supplies, personnel, engineering problems, public relations, and, very occasionally, political matters. Also present are other letters, notebooks, voucher records, ledgers, bills, bridge elevations, sketch maps, and grading contracts, 1857-1894. Dodge worked on construction for the Milwaukee and Mississippi, Milwaukee and St. Paul, St. Paul and Chicago, Northern Pacific, St. Paul and Pacific, St. Paul and Duluth, Montana Central, and Hastings and Dakota railroads, and the Minnesota Railway Construction Company. Prominent correspondents include Frederick Billings and Russell Sage. Also includes family correspondence relating to Dodge's "Genealogy of the Dodge family of Essex County, Massachusetts" published in 1894, and to other personal matters.

ArchivalResource: 13 reels of microfilm (35mm)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/466121616 View

United States. Duluth Land District (Minn.). Correspondence: Letters received from GLO, 1858-1908.

Title: Correspondence: Letters received from GLO, 1858-1908.

Letters received by the register and receiver of the Duluth land district from the commissioner of the General Land Office.

ArchivalResource: 37.8 cu. ft. (38 boxes).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/313789820 View

Salary ledger, 1881-1884.

Title: Salary ledger, 1881-1884.

Ledger giving wage information for managers, operators, and other employees at telegraph offices in cities and towns in Minnesota, Michigan, Wisconsin, Iowa, Dakota Territory, Montana Territory, Washington Territory, and Manitoba.

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http://www.mnhs.org/library/findaids/00423.xml View

St. Paul and Duluth Railroad Company. Corporate records, 1870-1970.

Title: Corporate records, 1870-1970.

Minutes (1877-1961), stock records, sundry financial records, annual reports (1878-1899), and miscellaneous papers documenting a NP subsidiary operating a railway line in Minnesota.

ArchivalResource: 58.0 cu. ft. (58 boxes).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/313867045 View

St. Paul and Duluth Railroad Company. Subject files, 1891-1918.

Title: Subject files, 1891-1918.

Documenting a NP subsidiary operating in Minnesota, the series contains letters received, telegrams, carbon copies of letters sent, and some letterpress copies of letters sent, mostly recounting engineering concerns on the line between Duluth and St. Paul, almost exclusively from 1891-1900.

ArchivalResource: 6.0 cu. ft. 6( boxes).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/313867051 View

Dodge, Joseph Thompson, 1823-1904. Papers [microform], 1845-1899.

Title: Papers [microform], 1845-1899.

Professional and personal papers of a civil engineer related to railroad building in Wisconsin, Minnesota, and Montana. Letter books contain letters to superiors and subordinates on technical aspects such as locations of lines, costs, legal problems, supplies, personnel, engineering problems, public relations, and, very occasionally, political matters. Also present are other letters, notebooks, voucher records, ledgers, bills, bridge elevations, sketch maps, and grading contracts, 1857-1894. Dodge worked on construction for the Milwaukee and Mississippi, Milwaukee and St. Paul, St. Paul and Chicago, Northern Pacific, St. Paul and Pacific, St. Paul and Duluth, Montana Central, and Hastings and Dakota railroads, and the Minnesota Railway Construction Company. Prominent correspondents include Frederick Billings and Russell Sage. Also includes family correspondence relating to Dodge's "Genealogy of the Dodge family of Essex County, Massachusetts" published in 1894, and to other personal matters.

ArchivalResource: 13 reels of microfilm (35mm)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/301358333 View

Northern Pacific Railway Company records., 1861-1970.

Title: Northern Pacific Railway Company records. 1861-1970.

Corporate records of the St. Paul-based Northern Pacific, its predecessors, and its subsidiaries and affiliates, documenting their operations across the northern tier of western states for more than one hundred years, until its 1970 merger with the Great Northern, the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy, and the Spokane, Portland and Seattle that formed the Burlington Northern.

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http://www.mnhs.org/library/findaids/01010.xml View

Northern Pacific Railway Company Records, 1870-1968

Title: Northern Pacific Railway Company Records 1870-1968

The Northern Pacific Railway Company was a transcontinental railroad that crossed Minnesota, Wisconsin, North Dakota, Montana, Idaho, Washington, and Oregon. This collection includes both bound and unbound correspondence, construction and expense reports, financial ledgers, right-of-way descriptions and maps, activity logs, publicity materials (including photographs and film reels), and personnel records created by employees of the Northern Pacific Railway Company and its subsidiary lines between the years 1870 and 1968--though materials are predominantly from the late 1880s through the early 1940s.

ArchivalResource: 228.5 linear feet, 24 moving image items, 32 oversize volumes, and 3 oversize boxes.; 412 boxes, 20 film reels, 4 VHS tapes, 32 oversize volumes, and 3 oversize boxes.

http://nwda.orbiscascade.org/ark:/80444/xv68060 View