Papers, 1905-1931.

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Papers, 1905-1931.

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The material reports on production and sales and is inconsistent in subject and chronology: Advertising Department memoranda, 1920; Cabinet meeting minutes, October, 1923-June, 1924; Comptroller's reports, October, 1920-April, 1921, 1924, January-June, 1928; Domestic Sales Department reports, November, 1919-September, 1920, March-June, 1924; Drawing Room reports and memoranda, September, 1920-April, 1921, July, 1923-June, 1924; Foreign Sales Department coded telegrams from Europe, June, 1923; Personnel records, 1919-1920; General Superintendant reports, January-June, 1923, January-June, 1926; and V. P. in Charge of Manufacture memoranda, 1919. There is also correspondence, 1905, concerning locomotives for the Atchinson, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railway; scrapbook with miscellaneous correspondence and newspaper clippings regarding Baldwin Locomotive's war work; photographs of the Baldwin Locomotive Works and of Vauclain as Chairman of the Philadelphia Gas Works Commission; letters, 1909, from Vauclain's family while they travelled in Europe; and family photographs.

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Historical Society of Pennsylvania

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Baldwin Locomotive Works

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Vauclain, Samuel M. (Samuel Matthews), 1856-1940

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Samuel Matthews Vauclain Jr. (1880-1913) was the son of Samuel Matthews Vauclain, inventor of the compound locomotive. After studying at Central High School in Philadelphia, then mechanical engineering at Cornell University, he began working for his father at The Baldwin Locomotive Works in Philadelphia in 1902. Sam was only employed a few months when the company decided to send him to Japan. While staying in Hawaii, war broke out between Russia and Japan. He continued his business trip to Japan...

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