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Chesapeake Western Railway. Records, 1928-1982.

Title: Records, 1928-1982.

This collection contains all the known extant operating records for the Chesapeake Western Railway Company. During the course of its existence, from 1871 to the early 1980s, it was owned by a number of investors and railroad companies and used a variety of tracks/lines most of which were located in Rockingham and Augusta Counties in Virginia (including at various times, the towns of Elkton, Harrisonburg, Bridgewater, Mt. Solon, Staunton, and Stokesville). The railroad's original raison d'etre was for carrying coal, although during its short boom years from around 1901 through the first decade or so, it carried predominately timber and tanbark. The CW originated as a chartered section of the Washington, Cincinnati and St. Louis Railroad. It later was incorporated into the Chesapeake, Shendun, and Western Railroad (later named the Chesapeake & Western Railroad). One of its most prominent owners was W.E.D. Stokes who bought the railroad in 1900 (when it was first named the Tidewater and West Virginia and then later the Chesapeake Western Railway, or CW); another important investor during the 1940s was Don W. Thomas. In 1954 the Norfolk & Western Railroad purchased the CW but the name was retained and it operated as a separate corporation until 1982 when the Norfolk & Western and the Southern Railway Company merged as the Norfolk Southern Corporation. In 1982, a five-alarm fire burned the CW office located in Harrisonburg. Today, the CW, under the control of the NS, serves as the Harrisonburg area's poultry feed supplier.

ArchivalResource: 15 Hollinger boxs and 32 large unboxed volumes (ca. items).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/39777026 View

Guastavino Fireproof Construction Company/George Collins. Architectural records. Series II: Project Records. Subseries 30: Files, Manhattan (New York, N.Y.), 1880-1949 (bulk 1900-1925).

Title: Architectural records. Series II: Project Records. Subseries 30: Files, Manhattan (New York, N.Y.), 1880-1949 (bulk 1900-1925).

This subseries contains notes, photographs, clippings, correspondence, brochures, bids, contracts, financial statements, bills of lading, order forms, invoices, specifications, memos, advertisements, estimates, requisitions, insurance certificates, work orders, and receipts pertaining to R. Guastavino Co.'s projects in Manhattan, New York. Projects are numerous, from private residences to public buildings, and from educational institutions to synagogues and churches.

ArchivalResource: 6 linear ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/309718226 View

Committee on Legislation for the International Exposition of 1892 minutes and scrapbook 1889-1890 Committee on Legislation for the International Exposition of 1892 minutes and scrapbook

Title: Committee on Legislation for the International Exposition of 1892 minutes and scrapbook 1889-1890 Committee on Legislation for the International Exposition of 1892 minutes and scrapbook

The Committee on Legislation for the International Exposition of 1892 compiled meeting minutes, correspondence, reports, and other material between September 1889 and April 1890. Under the leadership of Senator Chauncey Depew, the committee worked with the New York-based Committee for the International Exposition of 1892 in an attempt to persuade the United States Congress to award an upcoming world's fair exhibition to the city of New York.

ArchivalResource: 1 volume

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Davenport, Charles Benedict, 1866-1944. Cold Spring Harbor Papers, ca. 1903-1940.

Title: Cold Spring Harbor Papers, ca. 1903-1940.

There are two series within these papers, the first being Davenport's communications with the Carnegie administrators. There are also accounts, reports, etc. concerning financial matters, publications, salaries, and included is interesting material relative to the early history of Cold Spring Harbor labs (there is similar material in Davenport's own papers, B\D27). There is voluminous correspondence with the Carnegie presidents, Robert Woodward and John Merriam. Series 2 is larger and contains records relative to the numerous professional assistants who worked under Davenport, both permanent and part-time. The folders contain letters, reports, expenditures/budgets, research plans, bibliographies, etc. Included in this series are records of the separate labs, the Station for Experimental Evolution and the Eugenics Record Office. There is also significant material on the Bermuda Biological Station. Additionally, this series contains material relating to the various professional organizations to which Davenport belonged, such as the American Eugenics Society, Eugenics Research Association, Nassau County Association, and the National Committee for Mental Hygiene.

ArchivalResource: ca. 20,000 items (20 linear ft.).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122440174 View

Stokes, W. E. D. (William Earl Dodge), 1852-1926,. Letter signed from W.E.D. Stokes, New York City, to Augustin Daly [manuscript], 1894 November 2.

Title: Letter signed from W.E.D. Stokes, New York City, to Augustin Daly [manuscript], 1894 November 2.

ArchivalResource: 1 item.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/213471455 View