William B. Young Collection of the Connecticut Company undated, 1872-2012

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William B. Young Collection of the Connecticut Company undated, 1872-2012

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The collection consists of correspondence, maps, photographic images, car rosters, administrative reports, and other materials about trolley and street railroad cars and the history of the Connecticut Company, which controlled fourteen divisions of street railroad companies across the state of Connecticut from 1905 to 1948. These documents were collected by William B. Young who compiled this information for a comprehensive database about the company's trolley cars.

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Archives & Special Collections at the Thomas J. Dodd Center.

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SNAC Resource ID: 6332680

Archives & Special Collections at the Thomas J. Dodd Center.

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