Pierre Thomas Dumaine papers, 1952-1955.

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Dumaine, Pierre Thomas, 1912-1987. Pierre Thomas Dumaine papers, 1952-1955.

Pierre Thomas Dumaine papers, 1952-1955.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/236087412

The collection consists of three volumes, a scrapbook and two photograph albums, compiled by Pierre Thomas Dumaine. The scrapbook is composed almost entirely of newspaper clippings, many compiled by the New England Newsclip Agency, Inc. of Boston. Featured in the scrapbook are articles about Pierre Dumaine's work as President of the New England Transportation Company and a strike of mechanics for the bus company in August 1953. Also included is information about a proxy fight for control of the New Haven Railroad in the Spring of 1954, when F.C. Dumaine , Jr., Pierre Dumaine's brother, lost control of the railroad to Patrick McGinnis. There are also articles about McGinnis's move to merge the New Haven Railroad with the Boston and Maine Railroad in 1955. The first photograph album is entitled "The Conference Car at Brockton Fair, Sept. "53." It is composed of sixteen photographs, all measuring 8"x10". Many of the photographs show men posed in front of a New England Transportation Company bus. The second photograph album is entitled "The New Haven Railroad Commuter Cars 1954" The album holds twenty photographs, all measuring 8" x10", showing interiors and exteriors of railroad coaches, group photographs (some including Pierre Dumaine), and other unidentified men, presumably railroad executives.

2 linear ft.

University of Connecticut, Homer Babbidge Library