Records, 1866-1916 (bulk 1905-1912).

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 ...

Washington Southern Railway Company.

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West Jersey and Seashore Railroad Company

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Pennsylvania Railroad Company. Treasury Dept.

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United States. Commission on Industrial Relations

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The Commission on Industrial Relations was established in the wake of mounting conflict and violence in American labor relations and especially as a result of the dynamiting in 1910 of the Los Angeles Times building by two labor union officials. The Commission was composed of nine members representing employers, employees, and the public. From the description of U.S. Commission on Industrial Relations records, 1912-1915 (inclusive), [microform]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 1225562...

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

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Crawford, Joseph C., 1851-1921

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Roxborough Railroad Company.

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American Railway Association

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Baltimore Belt Railroad Company.

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County, A. J. 1871-1944.

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Roberts, W. Milnor (William Milnor), 1810-1881

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William Milnor Roberts (1810-1881) was a Pennsylvania-born civil engineer. He began his career in 1825 on the Union Canal of Pennsylvania and by 1830 had gone on to railroad construction work. From 1835 to 1857, Roberts was engaged as chief engineer for various projects in Ohio, Indiana, Pennsylvania, and Canada, serving as chief of one company while, at the same time, consulting for several others. From 1857 to 1865 he was in charge of the building of the Don Pedro Railway in Brazil. After his ...

Atlantic Coast Line Railroad Company

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The Atlantic Coast Line was based in Wilmington, N.C., and possessed rail that ran through Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Tennessee, and Florida. The Atlantic Coast Line later formed part of the CSX Transportation System. From the description of Atlantic Coast Line Railroad Company records, 1900s-1950s [manuscript]. WorldCat record id: 31908801 The Central of Georgia Railway, formed from its predecessor, The Central Railroad and Bank...

Scherzer Rolling Lift Bridge Company.

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Gilbert, Cass, 1859-1934

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Cass Gilbert was born on November 24, 1859, in Zanesville, Ohio, the son of General and Mrs. Samuel Augustus Gilbert. He received his education at MacAlester College, St. Paul, Minnesota and attended the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge after working in a St. Paul architect's office. Following graduation, he traveled throughout Europe and upon his return, entered the office of McKim, Mead, and White, Architects in New York City. A year later, in 1882, he established his own off...

McAdoo, W. G. 1863-1941.

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United States. Interstate Commerce Commission

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Clyde Bruce Aitchison (1875-1962) was an attorney and Interstate Commerce Commissioner. He was born in Iowa, educated at Hastings College, Neb., University of Oregon, and American University. He began the practice of law at Council Bluffs, Iowa in 1896, and moved to Portland, Ore., in 1903. He was Commissioner of the Oregon Railroad Commission and its successor the Public Service Commission, 1907-1916, and solicitor for the National Association of Railroad Commissioners, 1916-1917. From 1917 to ...

Gibbs, Alfred W. (Alfred Wolcott), 1856-1922

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Pennsylvania Railroad Company. Financial Dept.

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Pennsylvania Company.

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New York Central and Hudson River Railroad Company

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Born 1 Feb. 1885 in Johnstown, Pa. Moved with family to Buffalo shortly after the Johnstown flood of 1889. When his parents died, he became the ward of his brother-in-law, C. George Hyde, who apprenticed him to the New York Central & Hudson River Railroad in 1902. From the description of Apprenticeship papers of John P. Loewer, 1902 May 5. (Buffalo History Museum). WorldCat record id: 44271315 Railroad company formed from a consolidation of the New York Central Railroad ...

Vandalia Railroad Company

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Rea, Samuel, 1855-1929

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Pennsylvania Tunnel and Terminal Railroad Company

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Cassatt, A. J. (Alexander Johnston), 1839-1906

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Alexander Johnston Cassatt was a civil engineer and president of the Pennsylvania Railroad (1899-1906). He was the brother of artist Mary Cassatt. From the description of Letterbook index, 1894-1896; 1898-1903. (American Philosophical Society Library). WorldCat record id: 122523418 ...

North River Bridge Company.

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Loree, Leonor Fresnel, 1858-1940

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Washington Terminal Company

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Paoli, Wayne and Overbrook Street Railway Company.

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Atlantic City and Suburban Traction Company

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Harriman, Edward Henry, 1848-1909

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Harriman was a wealthy businessman with an interest in trotting horses. He gained control of the Historic Track in Goshen, N.Y. in the 1890s and ran amateur races there. From the description of Papers, 1890-1909. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 155523846 ...

Haupt, Herman, 1817-1905

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Herman Haupt was born in Philadelphia in 1817 and graduated from the United States Military Academy in 1835. He resigned his commission to become a civil engineer. He was employed by the Pennsylvania Railroad and in 1856 undertook work on the Hoosac Tunnel for the Troy and Greenfield Railroad in Massachusetts. From 1862 to 1863 he served as chief of construction and transportation on the United States military railroads and retired with the rank of brigadier-general of volunteers. In 1876 he und...

Interborough Rapid Transit Company

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Commuter railroad service in Brooklyn dates to 1834 and the founding of the Long Island Railroad (LIRR) during that year. Originally conceived as a means to connect Brooklyn to Boston, Massachusetts more directly, the LIRR played a significant role in the development and economic growth of Long Island's suburban communities, particularly after the railroad was directly linked to Manhattan in the 1880s. As of 2010, the LIRR is the largest and busiest commuter railroad in the United S...

Northern Central Railway Company

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Handled freight and passenger traffic from Baltimore, Md., to York, Pa; also called North Central Railway. From the description of Records, 1838-1839. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70974117 ...

Thayer, John B. (John Borland), 1862-1912

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Hudson Terminal (New York, N.Y.).

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International Railway Congress (1910 : Bern, Switzerland).

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McCrea, James, 1848-1913

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Weinman, Adolph A. (Adolph Alexander), 1870-1952

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Adolph Weinman (1870-1952) was a sculptor from New York, N.Y. From the description of Adolph A. Weinman papers, 1890-1959. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 82921654 American sculptor, Adolph Alexander Weinman was born on December 11, 1870 in Germany and came to New York City in 1880. At the age of fifteen, he attended evening classes at Cooper Union. He later studied at the Art Students League. When he was twenty years old, he entered the studio of Philip Martiny ...

New York Connecting Railroad Company

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Monongahela Railroad Company.

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Noble, Alfred, 1844-1914

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Soldier in the 24th Michigan Infantry during the Civil War, later civil engineer concerned largely with construction of bridges and canals, especially improvements of St. Mary's Falls Canal, and consultant engineer to Panama Canal project. From the description of Alfred Noble photograph series [microform]. 1870s-1900s. (University of Michigan). WorldCat record id: 48218566 Soldier in the 24th Michigan Infantry during Civil War, later civil engineer concerned largely with con...

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...

Pennsylvania and Newark Railroad Company.

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Pennsylvania Railroad Company. Executive Dept. Office of Vice President Samuel Rea.

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Samuel Rea, the third great engineer-president of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company, was born in Hollidaysburg, Pa., on September 21, 1855. He began working for the PRR as a chainman in 1871, later served as assistant engineer on several branch lines in western Pennsylvania, and became principal assistant engineer of construction in 1884. On August 1, 1889, Rea resigned to become chief engineer of the Baltimore Belt Railroad, which joined two previously disconnected sections of the ...

Pennsylvania Railroad Company. Accounting Dept.

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Gibbs, George, 1861-1940

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Delaware and Hudson Company

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The Delaware and Hudson Canal Company was incorporated in 1823. The name was changed in 1899 to Delaware and Hudson Company. In 1930 a new corporation was formed, the Delaware and Hudson Railroad Corporation, which took over the railroad properties of the Delaware and Hudson Company. In 1968 most of the assets of the Railroad Corporation were acquired by a new corporation, the Delaware and Hudson Railway Company. From the description of Report of L. F. Loree, president to the executi...

Union Station (Chicago, Ill.)

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Norfolk and Western Railway Company

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Reorganized in 1896 from Norfolk and Western Railroad Company. From the description of Records, 1896-1969. (Virginia Tech). WorldCat record id: 28420979 The Norfolk and Western Railroad was created and organized in 1881 when Clarence H. Clark and his associates purchased property and franchises belonging to the Atlantic, Mississippi and Ohio Railroad Company. As a result of the purchase, the combined track length owned by Clark and associates was just over 400 miles. By 1900...

Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, Chicago and St. Louis Railway Company.

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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. ...

Pennsylvania Station (New York, N.Y.)

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Lindenthal, Gustav, 1850-1935

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Western New York and Pennsylvania Railway Company.

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Mellen, Charles S. (Charles Sanger), 1851-1927

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Railroad executive. From the description of Papers, 1888-1922. (New Hampshire Historical Society Library). WorldCat record id: 70963821 ...

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 ...

Hudson and Manhattan Railroad Company

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Shand, A. C. 1858-1930.

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Gates, John Warne, 1855-1911

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Overbrook, Bryn Mawr and Paoli Street Railway Company.

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Schwab, Charles M., 1862-1939

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Charles M. Schwab was born on April 18, 1862, in Williamsburg, Pa., and grew up in Loretto, Pa. In 1879, he began working for the Carnegie Co. as a stake-driver in engineering corps of Edgar Thompson Steel Works and Furnaces in Braddock, Pa. This plant formed part of Carnegie Brothers & Co., Limited. Schwab was frequently promoted while working at the Edgar Thompson Steel Works, and in 1886, Carnegie appointed him to the position of general superindentent at the Homestead works. In 1889 Schw...

Lee, Ivy L. (Ivy Ledbetter), 1877-1934

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A member of the Princeton Class of 1898, Lee first worked as a journalist in New York and held a press job with the Democratic National Committee. Post-1904, he was an adviser on public relations to leading industrialists, such as John D. Rockefeller and the Guggenheims. In 1916, he opened Ivy Lee and Associates, a public relations firm that took on many prominent clients, including various investment houses, industrial organizations, and philanthropic institutions. Lee was the author of a numbe...

Atlantic City and Shore Railroad Company.

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New York and New Jersey Bridge Company.

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Pennsylvania, Monongahela and Southern Railroad Company.

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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 ...

Fifth Avenue Coach Company

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The Fifth Avenue Coach Company was incorporated in New York on July 25, 1896, as a reorganization of the Fifth Avenue Transportation Company, Ltd. (1885-95). The earlier firm held a franchise for operating horse-drawn omnibuses on Fifth Avenue from Bleecker to 89th Streets, streetcar tracks being banned from that fashionable thoroughfare. The reorganized company expanded the system by adding a number of branch lines. The company became a subsidiary of the Third Avenue Ra...

Long Island Rail Road Company.

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Frick, Henry Clay, 1849-1919

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Henry Clay Frick (1849-1919), a prominent industrialist and art collector, commissioned architect Thomas Hastings of the firm Carrère & Hastings to design and build his New York residence in 1912. Located at One East 70th Street, the three-story Beaux-Arts mansion featured a 100-foot gallery for his art collection. Charles Allom of White, Allom & Co. and Elsie de Wolfe were selected to furnish the rooms. Frick, along with his wife and daughter, took up residence in the house in November...

Cambria Steel Company.

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Philadelphia and Camden Ferry Company

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Union Station (Washington, D.C.).

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Cincinnati, New Orleans & Texas Pacific Railway Company

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Chartered in Ohio in 1881; leased to Cincinnati Southern Railway Company; controlled by English interests (1881-1890): part of East Tennessee system (1890-1893); controlled by Southern Railway Company after 1899; ran from Cincinnati, Ohio, to Chattanooga, Tenn. (336 miles). From the description of Records, 1882-1908. (Virginia Tech). WorldCat record id: 28410037 ...

George A. Fuller Company

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The George A. Fuller Co. was founded in Chicago in 1882 by C.E. Clark and George A. Fuller and soon became one of the leading general contractors in the construction industry. Beginning in 1914 the George A. Fuller Co. managed the construction of a new residence for Samuel Insull at Hawthorn Farm in Libertyville, IL. The residence at Hawthorn Farm was designed by Benjamin Marshall of Marshall and Fox and the gardens were designed by noted landscape architect Jens Jensen. From the des...

New York, New Haven, and Hartford Railroad Company

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The collection holds documents related to early southern New England railroads, particularly those that were predecessor lines of the New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad, the railroad predominant railroad in the region from 1872, when it was established through the merger of the New York and New Haven Railroad and the Hartford and New Haven Railroad, to 1969, when it was absorbed into Penn Central. From the description of New York , New Haven & Hartford Railroad Predecess...

Knox, Philander C. (Philander Chase), 1853-1921

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Lawyer and public official. From the description of Papers of Philander C. Knox, 1893-1922 (bulk 1901-1921). (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 79632215 Philander C. Knox (1853-1921) was an attorney and politician from southwest Pennsylvania. Knox served as U.S. Attorney General (1901-1904), U.S. Senator (1904-1909, 1917-1921), and as Secretary of State (1909-1913) under William Howard Taft. From the description of Philander C. Knox letter to N.B. Billingsley, 1882 M...

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 ...

McCall Ferry Power Company.

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Maryland and Pennsylvania Railroad Company

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Raymond, Chas. W. 1842-1913.

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