Pennsylvania Railroad branch lines and subsidiaries annual reports and minute books, 1853-1965.

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Pennsylvania Railroad branch lines and subsidiaries annual reports and minute books, 1853-1965.

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Dating from 1853 to 1965, the PRR annual reports and minute books comprise two key record series contained within the Pennsylvania Railroad-Central Region Collection. The PRR annual reports are almost exclusively printed, while the minute books are largely handwritten with some typescript and printed articles of incorporation, merger agreements, and notices of stockholders' meetings. These volumes document the executive administration of various PRR subsidiaries and branch lines, especially financial operations and investment practices, and relations between the railroad's operational managers and PRR shareholders. Several key PRR subsidiaries are covered by the annual reports and minute books: the Pittsburgh and Lake Erie Railroad Company; the Buffalo, New York, & Philadelphia Railway Company; the Pittsburgh, Fort Wayne, and Chicago Rail Road Company; and the Clearfield Bituminous Coal Corporation. Written or typed minutes of subsidiaries' board meetings are available for most of the PRR, New York Central, and Clearfield Bituminous Coal Corporation subsidiaries. A single volume of minutes often contains the records of two or more subsidiary short lines cheaply laid in the 1860s and 1870s that found that they couldn't support themselves as the 1880s and 1890s began. Printed annual reports to the stockholders often contain several years bound in one volume and are available for all of the companies and a great many subsidiaries.

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