Records, 1822-1964 (inclusive), 1822-1927 (bulk).

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New York, New Haven, and Hartford Railroad Company. Records, 1822-1964 (inclusive), 1822-1927 (bulk).

Title

Records, 1822-1964 (inclusive), 1822-1927 (bulk).

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http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/17266374

Abstract

A selection of account books of lines which went to make up the railroad. The most extensive series are for the Central New England Railroad (1899-1927), the Hartford and New Haven (1835-1872), and the New York and New Haven (1845-1887). Ledgers and occasionally other volumes for the following: Boston and New York Air Line Railroad; Boston and New York Central Railroad; Boston, Hartford and Erie Railroad; Central New England and Western Railroad; Charles River Branch Railroad; Charles River Railroad; Hampshire and Hampden Canal Co.; Housatonic Railroad; Hudson Connecting Railroad Co.; Joy Steamship Co.; Maine Steamship Co.; Naugatuck Railroad; New York and Boston Railroad; New York and New England Railroad; New York, Providence and Boston Railroad; New England Railroad; New England Terminal; New England Transfer; Old Colony Railroad; Old Colony Steamboat Co.; Pennsylvania, Poughkeepsie and Boston Railroad; Philadelphia, Reading and New England Railroad; Poughkeepsie, Hartford and Boston Railroad; Providence and Springfield Railroad; Providence and Stonington Steamship Co.; Rhode Island and Massachusetts Railroad; Shore Line Railway Co.; and Union Wharf Co. Also included are letters to Charles F. Pond, president of the New York and New Haven Railroad (1847-1852) and daily record of engines (1868-1882). There is also an extensive file of miscellaneous materials on the various lines which made up the New Haven. An additional group of papers are the files of Prof. Kent T. Healy who taught transportation at Yale and was a member of the New Haven reorganization committee, ca. 1947-1953; these relate to the reorganization and finances of the railroad from 1947 to 1964.

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69 linear ft. (394 v., 5 cases)

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Harvard Business School, Knowledge and Library Services/Baker Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 6918698

Harvard Business School, Knowledge and Library Services/Baker Library

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New York, Rutland and Montreal.

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Hartford and New Haven Rail Road Company

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Old Colony Steamboat Company

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Chartered 1874 to operate freight and passenger steamers between Narragansett Bay and New York, N.Y. From the description of Records, 1874-1904. (Mystic Seaport Museum, G W Blunt White Library). WorldCat record id: 70955773 From the description of Records of the Old Colony Steamboat Company, 1874-1904. (Mystic Seaport Museum, G W Blunt White Library). WorldCat record id: 47728077 ...

Joy Steamship Co.

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Naugatuck Railroad

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New England Terminal Company.

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Hartford, Providence and Fishkill Railroad.

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Pennsylvania, Poughkeepsie and Boston Railroad.

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Boston and New York Air Line Railroad

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Old Colony Railroad Company

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Chartered in 1844; opened for service from Boston to Plymouth, Mass., in 1845. Eventually blanketed southern Massachusetts with rail lines. Operated the famous boat train from Boston connecting with Fall River steamers for New York City. Passed into control of the New Haven system in 1893. From the description of Records, 1846-1937 (inclusive). (Harvard Business School). WorldCat record id: 269581169 ...

Hudson Connecting Railroad Company.

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New York and New Haven Railroad Company

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Hartford and Providence Railroad.

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Central New England and Western Railroad.

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Healy, Kent Tenney, 1902-

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Kent T. Healy was born in Chicago on February 2, 1902. He received his B.A. from Harvard in 1921, and his B.S. in Electrical Engineering from M.I.T. in 1923. Healey was an assistant professor of transportation at Yale from 1928-1937, an assistant professor of political economy from 1937-1938, an assistant professor of economics from 1938-1940, an associate professor from 1940-1945, and the Thomas DeWitt Cuyler Professor of Transportation from 1945-1970. From the description of Kent T...

Maine Steamship Company

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Maine Steamship Company was a bonded line between New York and Portland, Me., with offices at Pier 38, East River, New York, and Franklin Wharf, Portland. "These steamships connect at Portland with the Grand Trunk Railroad, for Montreal, Quebec, and all other points in Canada; also with the Maine Central Railroad for all points in Maine, and Northern New Hampshire, and with steamers for Boothbay, Rockland, Bangor, Mt. Desert, Eastport, Calais, and St. John, N.B." From the description...

New York, Providence, and Boston Railroad.

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Hampshire and Hampden Canal Company

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Pond, Charles M., -1894

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Connecticut Company

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Newburgh, Dutchess and Connecticut Railroad Company.

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Norfolk County Railroad

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Whistler, George W. (George Washington), 1800-1849

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Engineer and army officer. Father of artist James McNeill Whistler. From the description of George W. Whistler correspondence, 1842 September 9. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70981348 ...

Meriden, Waterbury and Connecticut Railroad.

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New York & New England Railroad

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Poughkeepsie and Connecticut Railroad.

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Boston, Hartford, and Erie Railroad Company

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Boston and New York Central Railroad.

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Charles River Branch Railroad Company

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Central New England Railroad.

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Housatonic Railroad

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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...

Records, 1822-1964 (inclusive), 1822-1927 (bulk).

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