Records, 1860-1947.

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Records, 1860-1947.

The records of the subsidiary and predecessor companies of Bethlehem Steel Corporation consist of a series of fragments collected in the 1950s and 1960s by the company's archivist and by the Charles M. Schwab Memorial Library.

110 linear ft.

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SNAC Resource ID: 6744066

Hagley Museum & Library

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There are 85 Entities related to this resource.

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 ...

Baltimore and Philadelphia Steamboat Company

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The Baltimore and Philadelphia Steamship Company was chartered in 1844 to provide steamboat service between Baltimore and Philadelphia via the Delaware and Chesapeake Canal. The Company ceased operation in 1935. From the description of Papers, 1844-1936. (Historical Society of Pennsylvania). WorldCat record id: 122584742 ...

Long Island Rail Road Company.

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Wilson Line Incorporated.

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Juragua Iron Company, Limited.

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Eastern Steamship Company

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Steamship company founded 1901 by merger of several East Coast shipping lines, providing service between New York City and New England. From the description of Records, 1891-1957. (Maine Historical Society Library). WorldCat record id: 70974725 ...

Bethlehem Loading Company

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Central Railroad Company of New Jersey.

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W. & A. Fletcher Company

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United States Shipbuilding Company.

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Merchants and Miners Transportation Company.

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Norfolk and Baltimore Steamboat Company.

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Maryland Steamboat Company

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Harlan & Hollingsworth Company.

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Petroleum Iron Works Company of Texas

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New York and Cuba Mail Steamship Company.

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Central Hudson Steamboat Company.

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New York, Philadelphia and Norfolk Railroad Company.

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Pennsylvania Steel Company

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Metropolitan Steamship Company.

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Lackawanna Coal and Coke Company

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Lackawanna Iron and Steel Company

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Fall River Line

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Lackawanna Steel Company

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New Jersey Steamboat Company.

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Conemaugh and Black Lick Railroad Company

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Camden and Philadelphia Ferry Company.

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Norfolk and Washington Steamboat Company

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Van Guilder Double Wall Company, Inc.

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Sun Oil Company

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Pennsylvania Steel Company of New Jersey.

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Pottstown Bridge Company

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Maryland Steel Company of Baltimore County

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Republic Iron Company

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Sayre, Robert H. (Robert Heysham), 1824-1907

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Civil engineer and railroad executive. Robert Heysham Sayre was born in Columbia County, Pennsylvania, on October 13, 1824, and died in South Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, on January 5, 1907. His father, William H. Sayre, brought the family to Mauch Chunk, Pennsylvania in 1829, where he became weighmaster for the Lehigh Coal & Navigation Company. Like many company officials, he secured for his son an apprenticeship in the company's engineer corps, starting in 1840 when Ro...

Cambria Iron Company

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Staten Island Shipbuilding Company

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Cornwall Ore Bank Company

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Pure Oil Company

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United Shipyards, Inc.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6dc6cc3 (corporateBody)

National Safety Council.

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Spanish-American Iron Company.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6676r9h (corporateBody)

Brooklyn and New York Ferry Company.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6nq0fqr (corporateBody)

New York Ferry Company.

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Providence and Stonington Steamboat Company.

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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...

New York and Porto Rico Steamship Company.

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Bethlehem Iron Company

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Wilmington Steamboat Company.

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Beaumont Ship Building and Dry Dock Company

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Cambria Inclined Plane Company

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Central Vermont Transportation Company.

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Hudson River Day Line

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Harlan & Hollingsworth Corporation.

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Montauk Steamboat Company

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Pennsylvania Shipyards, Inc.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6v77vwn (corporateBody)

Harlan & Hollingsworth.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6b93m2h (corporateBody)

Bethlehem Steel Corporation. Predecessor and subsidiary companies.

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The Bethlehem Steel archive contains fragmentary records from 40 of its more than 400 predecessor and subsidiary firms. The earliest direct predecessor of Bethlehem Steel was the Bethlehem Iron Company (1860-1901). It began as a producer of railroad rails, but beginning in the 1880s it pioneered in the manufacture of heavy forgings, ordnance and armor plate. In 1916 Bethlehem acquired the Pennsylvania Steel Company (1865-1916), a large integrated producer of ...

Fletcher, Andrew, 1864-1925

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Delaware River Ferry Company of New Jersey

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Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corporation, Ltd.

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Morse Dry Dock and Repair Company

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Philadelphia and Reading Railway Company

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McClintic-Marshall Construction Company

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Olson and Mahony Company.

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Erie Railroad Company

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Eastern Shore Steamboat Company.

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United Dry Docks, Incorporated.

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Baltimore Steam Packet Company.

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Cofrode & Saylor, Inc.

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Old Dominion Steamship Company.

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American Iron and Steel Manufacturing Company

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Shell Company of California.

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Southern Pacific Company

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What started as a boycott by the American Railway Union against Pullman's Palace Car Co. in 1894 escalated to a strike covering the area from Chicago to the Pacific Coast. On the premise of interfering with the mails the federal government intervened and crushed the strike. From the description of Journal of incidents in San Francisco resulting from the American Railway Union strike, 1894 June 27-Aug. 31. (Huntington Library, Art Collections & Botanical Gardens). WorldCat record ...

New York (N.Y.). Dept. of Docks and Ferries.

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Baldwin Locomotive Works

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Matthias Baldwin (b. 1795), a former jeweler and tool manufacturer, was commissioned in 1831 by Franklin Peale to fashion a miniature locomotive engine to be displayed at his Philadelphia Museum. Soon the Philadelphia, Germantown and Norristown Railroad asked Baldwin to construct "Old Ironsides," his first full-size engine, in 1832. Subsequently, M.W. Baldwin, incorporated in 1831, became an establishment for the manufacture of locomotive engines at 400 North Broad Street in Philadelphia. The po...

Kaighn's Point and Philadelphia Ferry Company

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The Kaighn's Point and Philadelphia Ferry Company was incorporated under the laws of New Jersey on March 15, 1859, and it purchased the assets of the former South Camden Ferry Company on June 21, 1861. The ferry from Kaighn's Point in Camden to Washington Street in Philadelphia had been established in 1816 by the Pennsylvania and New Jersey Steam-Boat Company. The Philadelphia terminal was moved to South Street in 1828. The company was reorganized as the South Camden Ferry Company o...

Cambria Steel Company.

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J.H. Sternbergh & Sons.

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Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corporation

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Midvale Steel and Ordnance Company

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Saucon Iron Company.

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Morgan Line.

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Union Iron Works Company.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6t80v1t (corporateBody)

Riverside and Fort Lee Ferry Company.

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