Records, 1862-1976 (bulk 1885-1965).

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Records, 1862-1976 (bulk 1885-1965).

The records describe the design and construction of railroad buildings and structures, the evolution of railroad building components, and the internal workings and personnel of the company's Engineering Dept.

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Hardenbaugh, H. J. 1847-1918.

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Penn Center (Philadelphia, Pa.)

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Pennsylvania Railroad Company. Altoona Works.

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Boston Society of Civil Engineers

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Lackawanna Iron and Coal Company.

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Rea, Samuel, 1855-1929

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Jeffrey Manufacturing Company (Columbus, Ohio)

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Union Station (Saint Louis, Mo.).

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Carnegie Steel Company.

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Carnegie Steel Company, Limited.

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American Automatic Train Control Corporation.

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Cret, Paul Philippe, 1876-1945

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Penn Gas Coal Company

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Sproul, William C. (William Cameron), 1870-1928

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D'Invilliers, C. S. 1852-1910.

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Gibbs, George, 1861-1940

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Noble, Alfred, 1844-1914

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Furness, Frank, 1839-1912

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Hague, Frank, 1876-1956

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Illinois Steel Company

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Phoenix Bridge Company

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Union Station (Pittsburgh, Pa.).

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Palmer, A. Mitchell (Alexander Mitchell), 1872-1936

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Temple, E.B. 1871- .

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Lowell-Wintsch Automatic Train Control, Inc.

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New York Connecting Railroad Company

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Cincinnati Union Terminal (Cincinnati, Ohio).

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Brown, William H. (William Henry), 1836-1910

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Pennsylvania Station (New York, N.Y.)

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Dodge Coal Storage Company

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Hudson and Manhattan Railroad Company

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Edge Moor Iron Company

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Pencoyd Iron Works

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Union Switch and Signal Company

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Employees upset with piece rates, working conditions, and lay-offs walked out of the Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing plant in East Pittsburgh on June 5, 1914. Organized by the Allegheny Congenial Industrial Union (ACIU), they soon organized marches through East Pittsburgh and Turtle Creek in an effort to persuade workers at other Westinghouse plants to join the walkout. These marches made their way to Swissvale as the ACIU Local No. 2, Union Switch & Signal (US&S) plant, voted to...

Shand, A. C. 1858-1930.

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Cambria Steel Company.

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Parsons, William Barclay, 1859-1932

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William Barclay Parsons (1859-1932) was an American civil engineer. From the description of William Barclay Parsons papers, 1880-1939. (New York Public Library). WorldCat record id: 144652400 From the guide to the William Barclay Parsons papers, 1880-1939, (The New York Public Library. Manuscripts and Archives Division.) Civil engineer. Parsons was associated with the Rapid Transit System of New York, made a survey of Chinese railroads, 1898...

Pennsylvania Steel Company

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A. & P. Roberts Company.

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Union Station (Dayton, Ohio.)

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Lindenthal, Gustav, 1850-1935

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Cambria Iron Company

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Howe, George, 1886-1955

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Architect, Chair of the Dept. of Architecture at Yale University. Partner in the architecture firm Howe & Lescaze. From the description of George Howe papers, 1926-1974, (bulk 1926-1955). (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 505720125 ...

Calvert Station (Baltimore, Md.)

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Pennsylvania Railroad Company. Engineering Dept.

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Furness, Evans & Co.

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Furness, Evans & Co. was the architectural firm of Walter Rogers Furness, son of Horace Howard Furness. From the description of Letter to Horace Howard Furness, 1894. (University of Pennsylvania Library). WorldCat record id: 155883302 Frank Furness practiced architecture in Philadelphia under the firm names Fraser, Furness & Hewitt (1867-1871), Furness & Hewitt (1871-1875). Frank Furness (1876-1880), Furness & Evans (1881-1885) and Furness, Evans & Co. fr...

Pennsylvania Station (Baltimore, Md.).

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Carnegie Brothers & Co., Limited.

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Pennsylvania Greyhound Lines, Inc.

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Arundel Corporation.

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D.H. Burnham & Co.

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Philadelphia City Planning Commission

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The Philadelphia City Planning Commission is a municipal agency established in 1929. During the period of this collection the Commission was composed of twelve mayoral appointees, two members of City Council, and one of the Commissioners of Fairmount Park. The duties of the Commission were to make recommendations to City Council concerning proposed changes in the city plan or any new public facilities. Its reports, correspondence, plans, minutes, and scrapbooks from 1929 to the present are found...

American Bridge Company

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Burnham, Daniel Hudson, 1846-1912

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Tichy, Lester C. (Lester Daniel Claude), 1905-1981

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McKim, Mead & White

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At the time of this project the address of McKim, Mead & White was given as 160 Fifth Ave. (New York, N.Y.). From the description of Prospect Park, entrance shelters at Plaza entrance, [Brooklyn, New York, N.Y.] [graphic] : [detail drawing of dome in section and plan] / McKim, Mead & White, architects. Aug.24, 1895. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 78960919 Architectural company. From the description of Photographs, [ca. ...

Drinker, Henry S. (Henry Sturgis), 1850-1937

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College president. From the description of Papers, 1869-1929. (Lehigh University Libraries). WorldCat record id: 28416050 ...

Union Station (Chicago, Ill.)

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Pennsylvania Railroad Company. Office of Chief Engineer.

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Dudley, Charles Benjamin, 1842-1909

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Graham, Anderson, Probst, White

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McClintic-Marshall Construction Company

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Wilson Brothers

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Wiggins, W. D. 1873- .

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North Philadelphia Station (Philadelphia, Pa.).

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Bacon, Edmund N.

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Edmund Norwood Bacon was born May 2, 1910 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He graduated from Cornell University in 1932 with a Bachelor of Architecture degree and worked as an architectural designer in Shanghai, China under Henry Killam Murphy in 1934. In 1935 he returned to Philadelphia to work with W. Pope Barney. He attended Cranbrook Academy of Art in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan in 1936, and worked in Michigan 1937-1939 as Superintendent of City Planning for the city of Flint. From 1940 to 1943...

Jacobs, Charles M. (Charles Mattathias), 1850-1919

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Murchison, Kenneth M., 1947-

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Shiffler Bridge Company.

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Raymond, Chas. W. 1842-1913.

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Lackawanna Iron and Steel Company

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