Frank Thomson papers, 1826-1915 and undated, bulk 1863-1864, 1871-1872, 1897-1899.

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Frank Thomson papers, 1826-1915 and undated, bulk 1863-1864, 1871-1872, 1897-1899.

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The collection consists of Mr. Thomson's correspondence; books, pamphlets, plaques, and maps related to the U.S. Military Railroad, the Pennsylvania Railroad, and other railroads; other printed ephemera collected by Mr. Thomson; newspaper clippings published at his death; and photographs and drawings. U.S. Military Railroads activities during the Civil War period (especially 1863-1864) and the Russian Grand Duke Alexis's state visit to the United States in 1871-1872 are especially well documented.

2.6 cubic ft.

Drexel University Libraries, W. W. Hagerty Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 7781067

Drexel University Libraries, W. W. Hagerty Library

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Thomson, Frank, 1841-1899

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Frank Thomson served as president of the Pennsylvania Railroad from 1897 to 1899. Born in Chambersburg, Pennsylvania, in 1851, Mr. Thomson spent his entire career working on railroads. He served in the Union army during the Civil War, when he worked for the U.S. Military Railroads in the South and Southwest. After leaving the military in June 1864, he began working for the Pennsylvania Railroad. In 1871 and 1872, he was manager of transportation for an entourage escorting the Grand Duke Alexis o...

Thomson, Anne.

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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...