Records, 1932-1937.
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Pennsylvania Railroad
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The Pennsylvania Railroad Company was the largest railroad in the United States in terms of corporate assets and traffic from the last quarter of the nineteenth century until the decline of the northeast's and midwest's dominance of manufacturing, caused by the evolution of the interstate highway system and the advancements in air transportation. Originally created by Philadelphia merchants in 1846, it sought to build a trunk route from Philadelphia to Pittsburgh via the Allegheny Mountains to c...
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...
