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Pennsylvania Railroad Company. Motive Power Dept. Records, 1881-1964 (bulk 1910-1948).

Title: Records, 1881-1964 (bulk 1910-1948).

The records of the Motive Power Department consist of eight series. With the exception of the annual reports, they primarily cover the period 1910-1948. Most pre-1910 and post-1948 material has been lost. Coverage is relatively complete for the period 1920-1948. The files of the Superintendent of Motive Power - Northwest System are fragments covering the construction and operation of shops at Dennison, Ohio, and Scully, Pa. The publications and ephemera include samples of standard specification, handbooks for the operation of equipment and professional papers dealing with electrification and the 1913 air brake trials. Drawings are paper copies extracted from files and flattened. Original tracings are available at the Pennsylvania State Archives.

ArchivalResource: 200 linear ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122393460 View

Pennsylvania Railroad Company. Financial Dept. Records, 1899-1971.

Title: Records, 1899-1971.

The records give nearly complete coverage of the activities of the financial Department at its highest administrative level from 1900 until the Penn Central merger of 1968. Some files have been lost. Many of those covering the later years of Bevan's administration were impounded during the investigations of the Penn Central bankruptcy. Some have been lost and others are in the custody of Penn Central Corporation. Copies of many of these files are included in the Hagley Museum & Library's holdings of Bevan's papers.

ArchivalResource: 140 linear ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/86119202 View

Pennsylvania Railroad Company. Office of Vice President-Operations. Records, 1917-1968 (bulk 1930-1964).

Title: Records, 1917-1968 (bulk 1930-1964).

The records of the Vice President-Operations are a surviving fragment (perhaps less than 10%) of a much larger body of material. A large portion of the VP-O's files were not scheduled for permanent retention, and more was destroyed in the late 1970s. However, the surviving material does cover most of the major developments of the 1928-1955 period. There is significantly less material from Newell's tenure as Vice President (1955-1958) and from the 1960s.

ArchivalResource: 55 linear ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122370782 View

Pennsylvania Railroad Company. Western Region. Office of General Manager. Records, 1922-1955 (bulk 1922-1939).

Title: Records, 1922-1955 (bulk 1922-1939).

The records of the General Manager of the Western Region consist of a series of locality files for the divisions under his control, plus three special series of accident files and files relating to activities during World War II. The records include material for the period 1922-1925 inherited from predecessor offices. The files represent a selection that had been brought from Chicago to the central records warehouse in Philadelphia. Most post-1940 files have been destroyed.

ArchivalResource: 28 linear ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122370775 View

Pennsylvania Railroad Company. Office of the President. Records, 1910-1965.

Title: Records, 1910-1965.

The record of the office of the president are relatively complete from 1899 to ca. 1963 and may be found at the Pennsylvania State Archives in Harrisburg, Pa. All of the earlier correspondence was apparently destroyed between 1910 and 1923.

ArchivalResource: 0.3 linear ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/123466635 View

Pennsylvania Railroad Company. Office of Chief of Freight Transportation. Records, 1927-1955.

Title: Records, 1927-1955.

The records of the Chief of Freight Transportation consists of 22 linear ft. selected from a much larger body of files. Several files, including those on the operation of circus trains and the Fruit Growers Express Company, continue those of the Chief of Transportation. The files have been appraised to select the most important developments of each period and to document the most important freight services.

ArchivalResource: 22 linear ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122370812 View

Pennsylvania Railroad Company. Office of Secretary. Corporate records, 1843-1968.

Title: Corporate records, 1843-1968.

The records consist of typed duplicates or microfilm copies of all records pertaining to the activities of the Board of Managers of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company from its organization to 1960. In addition, there are good representative samples of the contracts, manuals and other corporate papers, which were printed and distributed in multiple copies.

ArchivalResource: Mss. 16 linear ft.Microfilm 115 reels.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/86123673 View

Dinner in honor of Mr. Walter S. Franklin, who retired May 31, 1954 as president of the Pennsylvania Railroad after nearly a half century of distinguished service and Mr. James M. Symes, his successor, the 13th president of the Pennsylvania Railroad; Wednesday, the twenty-third of June, the Warwick, Philadelphia.

Title: Dinner in honor of Mr. Walter S. Franklin, who retired May 31, 1954 as president of the Pennsylvania Railroad after nearly a half century of distinguished service and Mr. James M. Symes, his successor, the 13th president of the Pennsylvania Railroad; Wednesday, the twenty-third of June, the Warwick, Philadelphia.

Invitation, menu, guest list.

ArchivalResource: 3 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/84415590 View

Greenewalt, Crawford H., 1902-1993. Personal papers, 1948-1992.

Title: Personal papers, 1948-1992.

Crawford Greenewalt's personal papers are primarily focused on his retirement years and his avocational interests. His official business correspondence as president of Du Pont is contained in Hagley Museum and Library Accession 1814.

ArchivalResource: 44 linear ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122558916 View

Pennsylvania Railroad Company. Personnel Dept. Records, 1887-1968 (bulk 1920-1955).

Title: Records, 1887-1968 (bulk 1920-1955).

The records of the Personnel Department consist of fifteen series. They cover all aspects of personnel and labor relations as seen from the perspective of the corporate headquarters. Records of such activities at the local level may be found under the heading of Superintendent of Labor and Wage Bureau for the Eastern, Central and Western Regions.

ArchivalResource: 142.5 linear ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122503443 View