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Haven, Alfred W., 1801-1885. Account book, 1846-1855.

Title: Account book, 1846-1855.

Account book including brief record of Haven's investments in various properties, bank accounts, and businesses including Boston & Lowell Railroad, Chippewa Copper Mining Co., Cocheco Mfg. Co., Portland, Saco, and Portsmouth Railroad, Portsmouth & Concord Railroad, Portsmouth Steam Factory, Sagamore Steam Power Mfg. Co., Salmon Falls Manufacturing Co.

ArchivalResource: 1 v.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/70961289 View

Vertical file collection on railroads, 1824-1935 (inclusive).

Title: Vertical file collection on railroads, 1824-1935 (inclusive).

Consists of unbound manuscripts of less than a volume in size concerning numerous railroads and electric railroads in the United States, Canada, Mexico, and Great Britain.

ArchivalResource: ca. 3 linear ft. (1.5 file drawers)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/269600781 View

Boston and Lowell Railroad Corporation. Records, 1896-1909.

Title: Records, 1896-1909.

Documents in this collection are exclusively about the Prison Point Bridge case, mostly auditor's reports detailing how much money the Boston and Lowell Railroad, the City of Cambridge, and the Commonwealth of Massachusetts had spent on altering the grade for the crossing at Prison Point Bridge.

ArchivalResource: 3 folders.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/70974262 View

Blake, Ebenezer N., 1817-1891. Ebenezer N. Blake Records 1797-1926 (bulk 1868-1889).

Title: Ebenezer N. Blake Records 1797-1926 (bulk 1868-1889).

Collection consists of payrolls, correspondence, receipts and business records for the Blake Higbee Company, the E.N. Blake Company and an earlier unidentified tannery. Ephemera including E.N. Blake's Boston and Lowell Railroad tickets for the Woburn Branch line, a personal invitation and a Lyceum theater ticket.

ArchivalResource: 8 folders.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/299175706 View

Proprietors of the Locks and Canals on Merrimack River. Records, 1792-1947 (inclusive), 1825-1900 (bulk).

Title: Records, 1792-1947 (inclusive), 1825-1900 (bulk).

Includes an extensive bound series of incoming letters and papers, a series of letter books, general accounting records, and payrolls. There are records for construction of canals, for collection of tolls, for kyanizing of lumber, and for a grist mill. There are papers of James B. Francis, engineer and agent, Uriah A. Boyden, hydraulic engineer, Col. James Francis, William Badger, Hiram F. Mills, Patrick T. Jackson, Kirk Boott, and George W. Whistler. Companies represented by material include Merrimack Manufacturing Company, Bigelow-Hartford Manufacturing Company, Ipswich Mills, Middlesex Company, Nashua Manufacturing Company, Saco-Lowell Shops, Pepperell Manufacturing Company, and Tremont and Suffolk Mills.

ArchivalResource: 13 linear ft. (355 v., 2 cases, 1 box)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/17267180 View

Nott, Gordon H. Experiments on the consumption of fuel on the Boston and Lowell Railroad.

Title: Experiments on the consumption of fuel on the Boston and Lowell Railroad.

Detailed record of experiments, October 8, 1850-April 30, 1851, on the quality of various woods used as fuel to generate steam for locomotives.

ArchivalResource: 1 v. ; 33 x 45 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/237214081 View

Hosford, H. Petition from residents of Concord, Mass., to H. Hosford, General Manager of Boston and Lowell Railroad, protesting building of new line through Concord, [1872].

Title: Petition from residents of Concord, Mass., to H. Hosford, General Manager of Boston and Lowell Railroad, protesting building of new line through Concord, [1872].

Undated petition, signed by some 65 Concordians, including R.W. Emerson, A. Bronson Alcott, F.B. Sanborn, D.C. French, F.M. Holland, Ellen T. Emerson, Alicia M. Keyes, Charles H. Walcott, Alfred Munroe, Alfred W. Hosmer, and Rose Hawthorne Lathrop.

ArchivalResource: 1 item ; 32 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/35226067 View

Eddy, R. H. (Robert Henry), 1812-1887. Survey for extension of the Charlestown Branch Railroad / by R.H. Eddy, engineer.

Title: Survey for extension of the Charlestown Branch Railroad / by R.H. Eddy, engineer. 1837.

ArchivalResource: 1 map : col., mounted on linen ; 68 x 122 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/56634255 View

G. Vinal and Sons. G. Vinal and Sons account book, 1838-1843.

Title: G. Vinal and Sons account book, 1838-1843.

Account book of lumber merchants G. Vinal & Sons, including accounts with Boston & Lowell Railroad, Boston & Portland Railroad, Brattle Street Church, Park Street Church, P.C. Brooks, East Boston Ferry Company, John G. Palfrey, and the South Cove Corporation.

ArchivalResource: 1 extra tall v. in a case.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/17437976 View

Nashua and Lowell Railroad Corporation. Nashua and Lowell Railroad Corporation records, 1835-1916 (inclusive).

Title: Nashua and Lowell Railroad Corporation records, 1835-1916 (inclusive).

Account books, ledgers, and stock dividend records, annual reports, and unbound papers covering period of independent operation (1838-1857, 1878-1880); with other records covering the period the line was leased, first to the Boston and Lowell Railroad Corp. (1857-1878, 1880-1887) and later to the Boston and Maine Railroad (1887 and following years). Includes letters of Presidents Daniel Abbott (1848-1851) and F.A. Brooks (1879-1883); from Treasurers T.H. Woods (1871, 1874), C.V. Dearborn (1877-1881), and Charles B. Brooks (1881-1886); from Superintendents A. Mitchell (1848-1850), Onslow Stearns (1845-1863), Bernard Stearns (1846-1847), Charles F. Gove (1849-1853), George Stark (1847-1868), and others. Also included are papers relating to many other New England railroads with which the Nashua and Lowell had dealings.

ArchivalResource: 30 linear ft. (127 v., 112 boxes)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/269582395 View

Proprietors of the Locks and Canals on Merrimack River. Records, 1792-1947 (inclusive), 1825-1900 (bulk) [microform].

Title: Records, 1792-1947 (inclusive), 1825-1900 (bulk) [microform].

Includes an extensive bound series of incoming letters and papers, a series of letter books, general accounting records, and payrolls. There are records for construction of canals, for collection of tolls, for kyanizing of lumber, and for a grist mill. There are papers of James B. Francis, engineer and agent, Uriah A. Boyden, hydraulic engineer, Col. James Francis, William Badger, Hiram F. Mills, Patrick T. Jackson, Kirk Boott, and George W. Whistler. Companies represented by material include Merrimack Manufacturing Company, Bigelow-Hartford Manufacturing Company, Ipswich Mills, Middlesex Company, Nashua Manufacturing Company, Saco-Lowell Shops, Pepperell Manufacturing Company, and Tremont and Suffolk Mills.

ArchivalResource: 13 linear ft. (355 v., 2 cases, 1 box)Copies: 4 microfilm reels.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/269602657 View

Richardson. Albert L. Report on the Billerica Branch Railroad extending from the Boston and Lowell Railroad at the Billerica and Tewksbury Depot to near the centre of Billerica, 1847 Feb. 26.

Title: Report on the Billerica Branch Railroad extending from the Boston and Lowell Railroad at the Billerica and Tewksbury Depot to near the centre of Billerica, 1847 Feb. 26.

Report written by Richardson and Amasa Farrier, engineers, at Woburn, Mass.

ArchivalResource: 1 item.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/70967989 View

Baldwin family. Baldwin family business papers, 1694-1887 (inclusive), 1787-1865 (bulk).

Title: Baldwin family business papers, 1694-1887 (inclusive), 1787-1865 (bulk).

Large collection, predominantly unbound papers, having to do with various engineering projects, i.e., canals, docks, aqueducts, water works, railroads, etc., primarily in New England. The material on the Middlesex Canal is perhaps the most interesting unit of the collection. Other valuable groups of papers are those concerning the Boston Water Works, and the Charlestown and Norfolk Navy Yards. Includes papers of Loammi Baldwin I, Loammi Baldwin II, James F. Baldwin, George R. Baldwin and other family members.

ArchivalResource: 34 linear ft. (134 v., 62 boxes)Copies: 1 microfilm reel.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/269603911 View

Records relating to railroad construction in New England and Pennsylvania, 1809-1881 (inclusive).

Title: Records relating to railroad construction in New England and Pennsylvania, 1809-1881 (inclusive).

Records and business papers of William Jackson, Newton, Mass. (1809-1853) relating to Western Railroad, Boston and Worcester Railroad, and Millbury Branch Railroad; Samuel Abbot, Woburn, Mass (1832-1834) relating to Boston and Lowell Railroad; Troy and Greenfield Railroad Company, Greenfield, Mass. (1844-1881) including papers of Herman Haupt (1856-1861) and reports on Hoosac Tunnel; Strong and Bradley (1850-1854) relating to Chester Valley Railroad Company in Pennsylvania; and New York and Boston Railroad Company, Providence (1851-1855).

ArchivalResource: 4.33 linear ft. (5 boxes, 3 v.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/269579344 View

Amherst and Belchertown Railroad Company. Trade catalogs of railroads, 1855-1945.

Title: Trade catalogs of railroads, 1855-1945.

Annual reports, histories, and souvenir books of various United States railroad companies.

ArchivalResource: 66 items (1 box) : ill.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122508749 View

Boston and Maine Railroad. Copy of a plan and profile of the Boston and Lowell Railroad / by James F. Baldwin, dated Mar. 1836 ; with additions by Engineers of B. and M.R.R., Mar. 1890.

Title: Copy of a plan and profile of the Boston and Lowell Railroad / by James F. Baldwin, dated Mar. 1836 ; with additions by Engineers of B. and M.R.R., Mar. 1890. [ca. 1927?]

ArchivalResource: 1 map : photocopy ; 70 x 356 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/57175768 View

Boston and Lowell Railroad Corporation. Boston and Lowell Railroad Corporation letterbook, 1831-1834

Title: Boston and Lowell Railroad Corporation letterbook, 1831-1834

Boston and Lowell Railroad Corporation letterbook, 1831-1834, containing letters written by corporation treasurer Patrick Tracy Jackson regarding all aspects of building the railroad in Massachusetts soon after its incorporation in 1830. Letters include topics such as determining the route of the proposed track, purchase of supplies including iron for track, requests for engineering advice, engines, and cars, moving earth and stone to set the route, and building bridges.

ArchivalResource: 1 vol.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/137266936 View