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

Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company

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The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad (B&O) was founded in 1827, and operated from the Great Lakes, Ohio, through the mid-Atlantic. The B&O's successor, CSX Corporation, was created in 1987 from interim holding companies. From the description of Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company personnel records, circa 1940-1979. (Pennsylvania State University Libraries). WorldCat record id: 760082029 ...

Brotherhood of Railway and Steamship Clerks, Freight Handlers, Express and Station Employees (1899-)

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The Brotherhood of Railway and Steamship Clerks, Freight Handlers, Express, and Station Employees was organized in 1899 in Sedalia, Missouri as the Order of Railway Clerks of America. It was initially affiliated with the American Federation of Labor but the tie was severed in 1901 and did not resume for many years. Union name variants were the Brotherhood of Railway Clerks (1904); Brotherhood of Railway Clerks, Freight Handlers, Express and Station Employees (1919); and the Brotherhood of Railwa...

Hankins, F. W. 1876-1958.

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Pennsylvania Railroad Company. Transportation Dept.

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Chesapeake and Ohio Railway Company

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Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad, originally named Louisa Railroad in Louisa County, Virginia, was founded in 1836 and reached the foot of the Appalachian Mountains at what is now Clifton Forge by 1850. For more information, please see the W.L. Eury Appalachian Collections' Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad web page. From the description of George Washington's railroad Chesapeake and Ohio Lines correspondence, 1935. (Western North Carolina Library Network). WorldCat record id: 213416394 ...

Robert Heller Associates

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Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen

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The Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers, founded in 1863, recognized the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen in 1874. The combined Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen (BLF & E) represented a wide spectrum of railroad occupations in labor negotiations. In 1969, it merged with other industry unions to form the United Transportation Union. From the description of Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen journals, 1874-1968 (Pennsylvania State University Libraries). ...

Pennsylvania Railroad Employes Provident and Loan Association

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The Pennsylvania Railroad Employes' Provident and Loan Association was created on July 1, 1923 to replace and enlarge the scope of the earlier Employes' Saving Fund. The Association was organized as a mutual company governed by a board of thirty-five managers, half of which were appointed by management and half by those employees holding accounts. In addition to savings accounts, the Provident and Loan Association offered its members home improvement and emergency loans and the ability to purcha...

Symes, James M. (James Miller), 1897-1976

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Pittsburgh Coal Company

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Lackawanna and Wyoming Valley Railroad

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Pennsylvania-Reading Seashore Lines

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The Atlantic City Railroad Company was incorporated in March 1899 and was renamed Pennsylvania-Reading Seashore Lines on July 15, 1933. Prior to 1933, both the Reading Company and the Pennsylvania Railroad maintained parallel and competing lines between Philadelphia/Camden and the New Jersey shore resorts between Atlantic City and Cape May. This had originally been a large and lucrative business, but with the coming of auto and bus competition and the opening of the Dela...

Brotherhood of Railroad Signalmen of America

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E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company

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The family firm of E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company was established in 1802 and during the 19th century it became one of the United States' most important manufacturers of black powder. In 1902 three younger du Pont cousins: T. Coleman, Alfred I., and Pierre S. took over the company and within three years succeeded in bringing 75% of the American explosives industry (which at that time included black powder, dynamite, and smokeless powder) under their control. During the first decade of the...

Richmond, Fredericksburg, and Potomac Railroad

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Richmond, Va. railroad company. From the description of Papers, 1863-1864. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 36437730 ...

Atlantic City and Shore Railroad Company.

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Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers (U.S.)

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Union representing the needs and concerns of locomotive engineers. From the description of Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers records, 1906-1971. (Wyoming State Archives). WorldCat record id: 166428920 The Brotherhood of the Footboard was founded in 1863 and in 1864 changed its name to the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers (BLE). The General Committee of Adjustment for each railroad system is comprised of all the general chairmen on that particular railroad and is respons...

Pittsburgh Consolidation Coal Company

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Eastern Railroad Presidents Conference

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Florida East Coast Railway

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The Florida East Coast Railway Company was founded by Henry Flagler for the purpose of increasing the ease of travel to Florida, originally to St. Augustine and eventually to all of the state's east coast. From the description of Florida East Coast Railway Ledgers, 1907-1909. (University of Florida). WorldCat record id: 184842724 From the guide to the Florida East Coast Railway Ledgers, 1907-1909, (Special and Area Studies Collections, George A. Smathers Libraries, Universit...

Khrushchev, Nikita Sergeevich, 1894-1971

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Premier of the Soviet Union. From the description of Reminiscences of Nikita Sergeevich Khrushchev : oral history, 1967-71. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 309743617 ...

Bethlehem Steel Company

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Lehigh and Susquehanna Railroad.

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Beaver Valley Railroad Company.

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Suburban Station (Philadelphia, Pa.)

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Pittsburgh and West Virginia Railway Company.

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Lehigh and Hudson River Railway

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New York Central Railroad Company

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The New York Central Railroad first stationed business representatives in Cleveland, Ohio, in 1853, but it was not until 1870 that the railroad established a significant presence in the local railroad economy. During the 1880s-1890s, the New York Central purchased controlling interests in various railroads to secure routes into Cleveland. In the early twentieth century it built and bought lines through and around Cleveland. Yards that were key to New York Central's repair, maintenance, and stora...

Pennsylvania Railroad Company. Operating Dept.

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North American Coal Corporation.

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Seatrain Lines, Inc.

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Detroit, Toledo, and Ironton Railroad

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Reconstruction Finance Corporation

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Battelle Memorial Institute.

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Young, Robert R., 1897-1958

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Robert Ralph Young was born on February 14, 1897 in Canadian, Texas, the son of David John Young and Mary Moody. He graduated from Culver Military Academy in 1914 and attended the University of Virginia. After leaving the University in his second year, he married Anita O'Keeffe, the sister of painter Georgia O'Keeffe. They had one child, Eleanor Jane Young. Young began his career with E. I. DuPont de Nemours & Company and subsequently worked for the Allied Chemical Corporation (1916-1920) an...

Nancarrow, Harry L., 1897- .

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Pullman Company

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York County, Pa., plant, which produced automobiles, also known as Pullman Motor Car Company. From the description of Records, 1903-1999. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70974944 Manufacturer of railroad sleeping and passenger cars founded by George M. Pullman; incorporated in 1867 as Pullman's Palace Car Company; name changed to Pullman Company in 1899; Pullman Incorporated formed 1927 with Pullman Company and Pullman Car & Manufacturing Corp., becoming its principal sub...

Chicago, Indianapolis & Louisville Railway Company

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Wabash Railroad

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Southern Railway (U.S.)

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Organized in 1894 from the bankrupt Richmond and Danville Railroad Company and several other railroad companies; headquartered in Washington, D.C. From the description of Records, 1891-1972. (Virginia Tech). WorldCat record id: 28410983 Formed in 1894; combined with Norfolk and Western Railway to become Norfolk Southern Corporation in 1982. From the description of Records, 1899-1950. (Atlanta History Center). WorldCat record id: 28414535 ...

M.A. Hanna Company

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Philadelphia Belt Line Railway Company.

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Pennsylvania Railroad Company. Medical Dept.

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Roeper, Park M., 1904- .

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30th Street Station (Philadelphia, Pa.)

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Lee, Elisha, 1870-1933

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Lehigh Valley Railroad Company

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The Lehigh Valley Railroad Company was incorporated in Pennsylvania as the Delaware, Lehigh, Schuylkill and Susquehanna Railroad Company on April 21, 1846, the name being changed on Jan. 7, 1853. It was one of the major anthracite railroads and formed a secondary trunk line between Jersey City, N.J., and Buffalo, N.Y. The railroad's original function was to serve as an outlet from the Lehigh Anthracite Region to tidewater by building along the Lehigh River from Mauch Chu...

Appleton, John A. (John Adams), 1891-1966

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Atterbury, William Wallace, 1866-1935

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William Wallace Atterbury was president of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company. He was a brigadier general in the United States (U.S.) Army in World War I (WWI) and was assigned to direct transportation activities in France. From the description of The W.W. Atterbury papers, 1917-1920. (US Army, Mil Hist Institute). WorldCat record id: 50632886 ...

Virginia Ferry Corporation.

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Long Island Rail Road Company.

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Washington Terminal Company

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Pennsylvania Railroad Company. Office of Vice President-Operations.

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The Office of Vice President in Charge of Operations (later shortened to Vice President-Operations) was created on May 8, 1912, when the practice of designating vice presidents by function was adopted. Previously, vice presidents had been designated by number on the basis of personal seniority. The post was abolished in the reorganization of November 1, 1955, and restored by the reorganization of March 1, 1958. With the implementation of the Penn Central merger on February 1, 1968, ...

Clement, Martin W. (Martin Withington), 1881-1966

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Monongahela Railway Company.

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Southern Railway Company.

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Pennsylvania Railroad Company. Voluntary Relief Dept.

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Roosevelt, Franklin D. (Franklin Delano), 1882-1945

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Franklin Delano Roosevelt was born on January 30, 1882, in Hyde Park, New York. He was the son of James (lawyer, financier) and Sara (Delano) Roosevelt. He married Anna Eleanor Roosevelt on March 17, 1905, and had six children: Anna, James, Franklin, Elliott, Franklin Jr., John. He received his B.A. from Harvard in 1904 and later attended Columbia University Law School. Roosevelt was admitted to the Bar in 1907 and worked for the Carter, Ledyard, and Milburn firm in New York City from 1907 to 19...

United Railroad Workers of America

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Smucker, David E. 1907-1996.

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Pennsylvania Railroad Company. Bureau of New Ideas.

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Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen

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The Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen was founded in 1883 in Oneonta, New York as a protective and insurance organization. By the time of its merger with three other railroad labor unions to form the United Transportation Union in 1969, it had the greatest membership of any of the operating railroad brotherhoods. From the description of Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen series 6. General subject files, 1897-1968, bulk 1934-1968. (Cornell University Library). WorldCat record id: 6475550...

Susquehanna Coal Company.

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Saunders, Stuart T. (Stuart Thomas), 1909-1987

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Kennedy, John F. (John Fitzgerald), 1917-1963

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John Fitzgerald Kennedy was born on May 29, 1917, to Joseph P. Kennedy and Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy of Brookline, Massachusetts. John Kennedy, the second of nine children, attended Choate Academy (1932-1935), Princeton University (1935-36), Harvard College (1936-40), and Stanford Business School (1941). In 1940, he published a book based on his senior thesis entitled "Why England Slept." The book criticized British policy of Appeasement. In 1941, Kennedy enlisted in the Navy. In August 1943, Kenn...

Greenough, Allen J. (Allen Jackson), 1905-1974

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Central Railroad Company of New Jersey.

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Little Kanawha Syndicate.

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Hudson and Manhattan Railroad Company

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Canton Railroad Company

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Grangesberg Company.

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Pittsburgh, Lisbon and Western Railroad Company.

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Newell, J. P. 1902-1982.

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Railroad Yardmasters of America

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Terminal Railroad Association of St. Louis

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Fruit Growers Express Company.

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Chicago transit authority

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Deasy, John F. (John Francis), 1882-1953

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Reading Company

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The Reading Company, chartered in 1871 as the Excelsior Enterprise Company, became the holding company for the system of railroads, canals and coal mines assembled by the predecessor Philadelphia & Reading Railroad Company between 1833 and 1896. As a result of anti-trust proceedings, the Reading Company divested itself of its mining subsidiary in 1923 and became an operating company for its rail properties. After bankruptcy in the early 1970s, viable portions of the rail network were conveye...

Mutual Beneficial Association of Pennsylvania Railroad Employes.

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Sheaffer, D. M. 1885-1960.

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Order of Railway Conductors and Brakemen

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The Order of Railway Conductors and Brakemen (ORC & B) was founded in 1868 as an order of railway conductors and later expanded to include brakemen. From the description of Series 2. Files re general chairmen, 1903-1969. (Cornell University Library). WorldCat record id: 64755504 The Order of Railway Conductors and Brakemen (0RC & B) was founded in 1868 as an order of railroad conductors and later expanded to include brakemen. From the description of Order...

Perlman, Alfred E.

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Alfred E. Perlman (1903-1983) was a railroad executive, known for his ability to trouble shoot and rescue failing companies. He began his career in 1923 and worked for the Northern Pacific, Burlington and Quincy, and Denver and Rio Grande railroads. He was also a railroad consultant in Israel in 1950. He was president of the New York Central Railroad, 1954-1968, until it merged with Penn Central; then he was president and chairman of Western Pacific Railroad during the 1970s. He focused on resea...

Clearfield Bituminous Coal Corporation

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The Clearfield Bituminous Coal Company was chartered by Pennsylvania Governor Henry M. Hoyt on 27 December 1882. In 1886 it reorganized as the Clearfield Bituminous Coal Corporation and operated in central Pennsylvania until 1953. From the description of Clearfield Bituminous Coal Corporation land tract records and property maps, circa 1885-2009. (Pennsylvania State University Libraries). WorldCat record id: 638956388 ...

New York and Long Branch Railroad Company.

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Transport Workers' Union of America

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Much of the Transport Workers Union (TWU) history centers around the fiery figure of Michael Quill, President of the TWU from 1935 to 1966. Quill, born in Kilgarven, Ireland in 1905, started with the IRT subway as a ticket taker. It was only with the financial support of the Communist Party that Quill, together with Maurice Forge, Austin Hogan and Harry Sacher, was able to lead a successful organizing drive among New York City transit workers beginning in 1934. With Quill as President, the TWU o...

Pennsylvania Station (New York, N.Y.)

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Loewy, Raymond, 1893-1986

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Raymond Loewy (1893-1986) was an American industrial designer noted for his streamlined style found on hundreds of products, such as Lucky Strike packaging, the Studebaker Starliner, and locomotives on the Pennysylvania RR. From the guide to the Raymond Loewy Studebaker Photographs, 1947, (Special Collections Research Center, Syracuse University Libraries) Industrial designer. Full name: Raymond Fernand Loewy. Born in France; emigrated to the United States in 1919. ...

Union Station (Chicago, Ill.)

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Ohio River and Western Railway Company.

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Pere Marquette Railway

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The company was incorporated in Michigan on March 12, 1917. Merged into The Chesapeake and Ohio Railway Company on June 6, 1947. From the description of Pere Marquette Railway Company : Corporate records, 1917 March 12-1947 June 6. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 34953505 The P.M. serviced an area that strectches from Buffalo to Chicago. From the description of Pere Marquette Magazine. 1909-1931 (Grand Rapids Public Library). WorldCat record id: 17599226 ...