Richard C. Carpenter Papers 1889-2001.

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Richard C. Carpenter Papers 1889-2001.

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Richard C. Carpenter is the author of , a four volume set published by Johns Hopkins University Press. The papers include handdrawn original railroad track and signal maps drawn by Mr. Carpenter, Henry T. Wilhelm and William Bruce Coughlin, of railroads in the Mid-Atlantic States, New York and New England, and Indiana, Lower Michigan, and Ohio, that Mr. Carpenter used for research for the atlas. A Railroad Atlas of the United States in 1946

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