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Deane, Ernie. Railroads, Missouri Pacific yards, North Little Rock, Ark., 1950's [C.J. Moore checks cars] [graphic] / Ernie Deane [photographer].

Title: Railroads, Missouri Pacific yards, North Little Rock, Ark., 1950's [C.J. Moore checks cars] [graphic] / Ernie Deane [photographer]. 1958.

Negative taken for October 19, 1958, Arkansas Gazette article "Boxcars Still Carry the Magic of the Railroads," E1:1. Views of the Missouri Pacific Company's switching yards at North Little Rock, Pulaski County, Arkansas. Here C.J. Moore checks list of more than a mile of cars.

ArchivalResource: 1 negative : b&w ; 6 x 6 cm. (2 x 2 in.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/52891932 View

Railroads collection, 1890-1980.

Title: Railroads collection, 1890-1980.

This collection contains small quantities of material from six different railroads: the Missouri-Kansas-Texas Railroad (Katy), Missouri Pacific Railroad Company, Quanah, Acme, and Pacific Railway Company, St. Louis-San Francisco Railway Company, Southern Pacific Railroad Company, and Union Pacific Railroad Company. These materials are dated from 1890 to 1980. They are separated from the Santa Fe Railway collection. The majority of railway collections at the Kansas State Historical Society deal with the Santa Fe Railway. The type of materials in this collection are wide and varied. Most, however, contain railroad standards and standard plans such as blueprints of railroad cars, track, locomotives, and railroad equipment, and paint color schedules. These records are of particular value for railroad restoration projects.

ArchivalResource: 5 document cases.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/52218920 View

Seidenberg, Jacob. Jacob Seidenberg. Additional arbitration files.

Title: Jacob Seidenberg. Additional arbitration files.

ArchivalResource: 7 linear ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/64064424 View

Clark, Harry Dale, 1890-1989. Harry Dale Clark collection, 1912-1919.

Title: Harry Dale Clark collection, 1912-1919.

Includes Railroad Trainmen beneficiary certificate (1912) and Masonic certificate (1919).

ArchivalResource: 4 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/244205890 View

Deane, Ernie. Railroads, Missouri Pacific yards, North Little Rock, Ark., 1950's [View 5] [graphic] / Ernie Deane [photographer].

Title: Railroads, Missouri Pacific yards, North Little Rock, Ark., 1950's [View 5] [graphic] / Ernie Deane [photographer]. 1958.

Negative taken for October 19, 1958, Arkansas Gazette article "Boxcars Still Carry the Magic of the Railroads," E1:1. Views of the Missouri Pacific Company's switching yards at North Little Rock, Pulaski County, Arkansas.

ArchivalResource: 1 negative : b&w ; 6 x 6 cm. (2 x 2 in.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/52891937 View

Deane, Ernie. Railroads, Missouri Pacific yards, North Little Rock, Ark., 1950's [View 2] [graphic] / Ernie Deane [photographer].

Title: Railroads, Missouri Pacific yards, North Little Rock, Ark., 1950's [View 2] [graphic] / Ernie Deane [photographer]. 1958.

Negative taken for October 19, 1958, Arkansas Gazette article "Boxcars Still Carry the Magic of the Railroads," E1:1. Views of the Missouri Pacific Company's switching yards at North Little Rock, Pulaski County, Arkansas.

ArchivalResource: 1 negative : b&w ; 6 x 6 cm. (2 x 2 in.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/52891933 View

Hoar, George Frisbie. 1826-1904. Autograph collection, 1598-1945

Title: George Frisbie Hoar autograph collection, 1598-1945

Autograph collection of Massachusetts Republican Senator George Frisbie Hoar.

ArchivalResource: 2 boxes (1 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou00676/catalog View

Deane, Ernie. Railroads, Welding continuous rails in MoPac shop, Little Rock, Ark., January 20, 1962 [View 2] [graphic] / Ernie Deane [photographer].

Title: Railroads, Welding continuous rails in MoPac shop, Little Rock, Ark., January 20, 1962 [View 2] [graphic] / Ernie Deane [photographer]. 1962.

Negative taken for January 23, 1962, Arkansas Gazette article "Unusual Cargo Will Leave for Texas Today," B1:3. At the Missouri Pacific Railroad Company's yard in North Little Rock, Pulaski County, Arkansas, rails in length of 1,440 feet are being welded.

ArchivalResource: 1 negative : b&w ; 6 x 6 cm. (2 x 2 in.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/52891928 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

Ballinger and Associates Collection

Title: Ballinger and Associates Collection

The collection of the Galveston law firm of Ballinger and Associates is a large holding of nineteenth century correspondence relating to economic, legal and political affairs of Texas, particularly the Gulf Coast area. The name of the firm varied during the 1855-1907 period of this collection. Partnerships included those of Ballinger and Jack, Ballinger and Mott, Willie, Campbell and Ballinger, Terry, Ballinger and Smith, and Terry, Cavin and Mills. For archival purposes, all will be referred to as Ballinger and Associates. The collection also contains a volume of letters to Thomas M. League and the 1875-1876 correspondence of the law firm of Willie and Cleveland. The University of Houston deposited the Ballinger papers in the HMRC in January, 1977.

ArchivalResource: 38.5 Linear Feet (92 document boxes)

https://hplarchives.lyrasistechnology.org/repositories/2/resources/478 View

Johnson, Robert S. (Robert Stone), 1919-2006. Robert S. Johnson collection, 1919-1978.

Title: Robert S. Johnson collection, 1919-1978.

The Robert S. Johnson collection contains records documenting his service as an attorney for the Indian Claims Commission and representing various railroad unions, particularly the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen. The records concerning the Indian Claims Commission are dated between 1946-1978 and include dockets, hearings, and other court records primarily regarding land compensation to native tribes. These are organized by docket number, year, or tribe name. The records relating to the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen include publications relating to railroad history, publications concerning railroad labor issues and claims, directories, constitutions and bylaw booklets, Yearbook of Railroad Facts publications, Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen annual reports and minutes, Order of Railway Conductor minutes, copies of agreements with the Missouri Pacific Railroad, and other records.

ArchivalResource: 17 cubic feet (29 boxes)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/694526742 View

Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen. Series 4, Subseries 5. Selected subject files, 1915-1968.

Title: Series 4, Subseries 5. Selected subject files, 1915-1968.

Subject files include materials on all aspects of the work of the Board. Of interest are the files on the issues of caboose use by railroad crews, flagging, the full crew issue, the Pennsylvania Railroad-New York Central Railroad merger, sanitary conditions in the workplace, and unemployment compensation. Caboose use data include letters of S.F. Dwyer (director, Bureau of Inspection, Department of Labor and Industry), C.J. Sludden, Bruce J. Milliren (secretary, Industrial Board of Pennsylvania, Department of Labor and Industry), legislative representatives and Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen (BRT) members. Correspondence regards lack of maintenance and improper conditions in rider cars, the use of reflectorized markers and rear end marker lamps; caboose inspection reports of the Bureau of Inspection, Department of Labor and Industry; a BRT petition for an amendment to regulations regarding industrial sanitation and railroad sanitation; and Erie-Lackawanna Railroad caboose repair reports, among other documents (1955-1965). Flagging files include Interstate Commerce Commission (ICC) accident investigation reports, wage rates, and a statement at hearings on the Reading Railroad; letters of C.J. Sludden, Al H. Chesser, J.W. Reinhard (secretary, Pennsylvania Public Utilities Commission), J.J. Dillon (legislative representative, BRT Lodge No. 382), J.M. Reilly (general chairman), Charles Luna, and Thomas Park Shearer (attorney) regarding unsafe conditions on the Pennsylvania Railroad (East), discussions of rear end flag protection, flagging rule #99, road and yard crews consist issues, minimum safe crew consist, and a petition by railroad brotherhoods for flagging regulations; "State's Right to Require Supplemental Train Protection in View of the Interstate Commerce Act," a paper (1968); briefs of cases before the Supreme Court on the issue; ICC investigations of accidents resulting from signal failure and related causes (1962); operating rules for railroads with respect to flag protection against following trains; case briefs before the Public Service Commission, the BRT vs. the Pennsylvania-Reading Seashore Lines, Pennsylvania Railroad, Missouri-Pacific Railroad, and Baltimore & Ohio Railroad; and monthly statistics on reportable injuries or accidents involving employees (1954-1964); and other related documents. Files on full crew laws (1915-1966) include letters of George B. Roward, Harry G. Walsh (vice-chairman, State Legislative Board, BRT), Thomas J. McGrath (general counsel), H.C. Walsh (chairman, Pennsylvania State Legislative Board), A.F. Whitney, J.A. Farquharson (national legislative representative, BRT), C.J. Sludden, H.F. Sites (chairman, General Grievance Committee, BRT), Charles Luna, W.P. Kennedy, and W.L. Reed (assistant to the president, BRT) and others, discussing accidents, safety regulations, the full crew bill before the Pennsylvania legislature, the Supreme Court's enforcement of full crew laws, and the establishment of minimum requirements in equipping railroad cars used in employee transportation; papers on full crew and train limit bills, social progress and railroad costs; report of hearings before the Senate Judiciary Special Committee on the full crew and train limit bills of Pennsylvania (1935); report on operations of crews to and from various terminals on Pennsylvania railroads; and reports on full crew violations (1956-1958). Files also include legal materials for cases before the Pennsylvania Public Service Commission and the Pennsylvania Utilities Commission regarding investigations into violations of full crew laws, chiefly involving the BRT and the Order of Railway Conductors, the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen vs. Philadelphia and Reading Railroad, New York, Chicago and St. Louis Railroad, Pennsylvania Railroad, Reading Railroad, Delaware and Hudson Railroad, Monongahela Railway, Central Railroad of New Jersey, Cumberland Valley Railroad, and Baltimore & Ohio Railroad. Files regarding the merger of the Pennsylvania and the New York Central Railroads include correspondence of W.P. Kennedy and C.J. Sludden; reviews of the economic consequences of the merger for the state of Pennsylvania and for railroad employees; requests for additional ICC hearings on the impact of the merger; documents relating to the development of an "Anti-Merger" Committee; and legal documents, statistical compilations and other data regarding its impact. Also included is a 1966 agreement between the Pennsylvania and the New York Central Railroads and employees represented by the BRT and the Order of Railway Conductors and Brakemen detailing employment procedures in the event of a merger (ca. 1962-1966). Railroad sanitary condition information (1951-1965) includes letters of S.F. Dwyer, C.J. Sludden, and Eugene Zapparelli (superintendent, Bureau of Inspection, Department of Labor and Industry) regarding sanitary regulations; reports pertaining to corrective measures for unsafe and unsanitary conditions on Pennsylvania Railroad, Baltimore & Ohio Railroad, Central Railroad of New Jersey, Delaware and Hudson Railroad, Erie-Lackawanna Railroad, Lehigh Valley Railroad, New York Central Railroad, Pittsburgh and Lake Erie Railroad, and Reading Railroad. Unemployment compensation files (1955-1966) contain copies of proposed legislation, statements by Harry Boyer and J.L. Shearer (Bethlehem Steel Corporation) before the Joint State Government Commissioners Task Force on Unemployment Compensation; "Let's Not Squander the Opportunity to Revise Pennsylvania Unemployment Compensation Program," a paper by Milton Shapp; testimony on HR.8282, the employment security amendments; and a report by Jack B. Brown (executive director, Bureau of Employment Security) on progress achieved by Pennsylvania's reform of unemployment compensation programs, among numerous other documents.

ArchivalResource: 38.7 linear ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/64755513 View

Coffin, James H. (James Henry), 1806-1873. James Henry Coffin Papers, 1848-1884

Title: James Henry Coffin Papers, 1848-1884

These papers consist of correspondence concerning temperature, wind, and weather reports of the Hudson Bay region, 1848; resolutions of condolence to Coffin's son, Seldon J. Coffin, from students and alumni of Lafayette College after Coffin's death, 1873; newspaper articles; an illustration of James H. Coffin; and the original manuscript of Winds of the Northern Hemisphere. Additional correspondence of James Henry Coffin exists elsewhere in the Smithsonian Institution Archives, especially in the Joseph Henry Collection, Record Unit 7001, and Meteorological Project Records, Record Unit 60.

ArchivalResource: 0.25 cu. ft. (1 half document box)

https://sova.si.edu/record/SIA.FARU7060 View

Smithsonian Institution. Office of the Secretary. Correspondence, 1865-1891

Title: Correspondence, 1865-1891

This record unit consists of outgoing correspondence from the Office of the Secretary during the tenures of Joseph, Henry, 1846-1878; Spencer Fullerton Baird, 1878-1887; and Samuel Pierpoint Langley, 1887-1906.

ArchivalResource: 46.06 cu. ft. (62 document boxes) (68 3x5 boxes) (243 microfilm reels)

https://siarchives.si.edu/collections/siris_arc_216647 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

Deane, Ernie. Bridges, Highway bridge over MoPac trestle near Fulton, 1960 [View 3] [graphic] / Ernie Deane [photographer].

Title: Bridges, Highway bridge over MoPac trestle near Fulton, 1960 [View 3] [graphic] / Ernie Deane [photographer]. 1960.

Part of a group of negatives taken for January 22, 1960, Arkansas Gazette article "Road Bridges Form Real Oddity," B1:2. Concrete and steel bridge of U.S. Highway 67 lays over a trestle of the Missouri Pacific Railroad's main line, which lays over a trail used by farm vehicles near Fulton, Hempstead County, Arkansas.

ArchivalResource: 1 negative : b&w ; 3 x 4 cm. (1 x 1 in.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/51548649 View

Smithsonian Institution. Office of the Secretary. Correspondence, 1863-1879

Title: SIA RU000026, Smithsonian Institution Office of the Secretary, Correspondence, 1863-1879

This series consists mostly of correspondence addressed to Joseph Henry, much of which received his personal attention; also included are some copies of Henry letters, occasional returned original Henry letters, and a considerable number of letters to Spencer Fullerton Baird.

ArchivalResource: 59.56 cubic feet

https://siarchives.si.edu/collections/siris_arc_216640 View

Deane, Ernie. Railroads, Welding continuous rails in MoPac shop, Little Rock, Ark., January 20, 1962 [View 4] [graphic] / Ernie Deane [photographer].

Title: Railroads, Welding continuous rails in MoPac shop, Little Rock, Ark., January 20, 1962 [View 4] [graphic] / Ernie Deane [photographer]. 1962.

Negative taken for January 23, 1962, Arkansas Gazette article "Unusual Cargo Will Leave for Texas Today," B1:3. At the Missouri Pacific Railroad Company's yard in North Little Rock, Pulaski County, Arkansas, rails in length of 1,440 feet are being welded.

ArchivalResource: 1 negative : b&w ; 6 x 6 cm. (2 x 2 in.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/52891930 View

Missouri Pacific Railroad Company : [collection] ; 1882-1960.

Title: Missouri Pacific Railroad Company : [collection] ; 1882-1960.

ArchivalResource: linear ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/28413716 View

State Historical Society Of Iowa, Des Moines Center. Charles A. White Papers.

Title: State Historical Society Of Iowa, Des Moines Center. Charles A. White Papers.

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