Lehigh Valley Railroad Company records, 1870-1962.

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Lehigh Valley Railroad Company records, 1870-1962.

Fiancial records, reports, schedules, blueprints, and other records of railway lines in central and western New York State. Collection includes financial records (bank books, cancelled checks, check stubs, account book, assessments), reports, indentures, mortgage, tickets, schedules, newspaper clippings, blueprints, and two broadsides concerning the organization, consolidation, finance, and other business matters pertaining to the Lehigh Valley Railway; Lehigh Valley Railroad; Waverly and State Line Railway; Geneva, Ithaca and Sayre Railroad; Elmira, Cortland and Northern Railroad; Geneva and Van Ettenville Railroad; Ithaca and Athens Railroad; Geneva and Sayre Railroad; Hayts Corners, Ovid and Willard Railroad; New York, Ontario and Western Railway; Buffalo and Geneva Railway; and the New York Railroad. Also, letter files from J.F. Powers and F.E. Erdman in the Division Freight Office, Geneva, N.Y., ca. 1925-1931; locomotive log book, Manchester, N.Y., 1959; blueprints of railroad crossings used for tax assessment; ledger of Lehigh Valley-owned structures; and ledger of special franchise maps.

6 cubic ft.

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SNAC Resource ID: 7910161

Cornell University Library

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Geneva and Van Ettenville Railroad Company.

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Erdman, F. E.

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Geneva and Sayre Railroad Company.

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Elmira, Cortland, and Northern Railroad Company

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Lehigh Valley Railway Company.

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Geneva, Ithaca, and Sayre Railroad Company

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New York, Ontario and Western Railway Company.

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Lehigh Valley Railroad Company

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The Lehigh Valley Railroad Company was incorporated in Pennsylvania as the Delaware, Lehigh, Schuylkill and Susquehanna Railroad Company on April 21, 1846, the name being changed on Jan. 7, 1853. It was one of the major anthracite railroads and formed a secondary trunk line between Jersey City, N.J., and Buffalo, N.Y. The railroad's original function was to serve as an outlet from the Lehigh Anthracite Region to tidewater by building along the Lehigh River from Mauch Chu...

Waverly and State Line Railroad Company.

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Buffalo and Geneva Railway Company.

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Ithaca and Athens Railroad Company

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New York Railroad Company.

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Hayts Corners, Ovid and Willard Railway Company.

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Powers, J. F.

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