Compare Constellations

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

Seattle, Lake Shore and Eastern Railway Company. Corporate records, 1885-1901.

Title: Corporate records, 1885-1901.

Minutes of trustees' and stockholders' meetings (1885-1897), assistant secretary's letterpress book, stock certificates and records, various financial records, and annual reports (1888-1896) documenting a NP subsidiary operating a railway line in Washington State.

ArchivalResource: 5.0 cu. ft. (6 boxes).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/313867138 View

Thomas Burke papers, 1875-1925

Title: Thomas Burke papers 1875-1925

Papers of a Washington State attorney, businessman, civic leader, and public official.

ArchivalResource: 24.78 cubic feet; 58 boxes

http://nwda.orbiscascade.org/ark:/80444/xv77651 View

Burke, Thomas, 1849-1925. Thomas Burke papers, 1875-1925.

Title: Thomas Burke papers, 1875-1925.

The collection documents Thomas Burke's interests and activities, particularly as a lawyer in Seattle, Washington, in the 1880s through the mid 1920s. The papers include correspondence, speeches and writings, legal and financial documents, and clippings. The large number and wide variety of firms, companies, and organizations represented are an indicator of the scope of Burke's interests and activites. Each of Burke's law firms (except that of McGilvra and Burke) is also represented, largely by correspondence and also legal documents and other materials. Personal and corporate names represented in the papers include Lindley H. Hadley, Harry Ballinger, Henry Broderick, Francis W. Cushman, Daniel H. Gilman, James Jerome Hill, Samuel Hill, Wesley Livsey Jones, John Harte McGraw, Edmund Rice, John D. Rockefeller, Paul Schulze, Watson C. Squire, the Washington Democratic Party, the General Electric Company, the Great Northern Railway Company, the Japan Society of Seattle, the National Economic League, the Pacific Coast Company, the Rainier National Park Company, the Seattle Chamber of Commerce, the Seattle Golf Club, and the Seattle, Lake Shore, and Eastern Railway Company.

ArchivalResource: 24.78 cubic feet (58 boxes)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/77010214 View