Albert photograph collection : railroads, ca. 1876-1981.

Pemberton & Hightstown Railroad Company

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Incorporated in 1864; served as a connecting link with a branch of the Pennsylvania Railroad which ran between Camden, through Pemberton and Hightstown to the New Jersey shore; in 1888 taken over as a lessee of the newly formed Union Transportation Company; in 1915 reorganized with two other railroads as Pennsylvania & Atlantic Railroad (still lessee of UT); ca. 1979 all properties taken over by Penn Central. From the description of Records, 1869-1897. (Unknown). WorldCat record ...

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...

Albert, Alphaeus Homer, 1891-

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Local historian, teacher, and authority on the history of U.S. military uniform buttons, of Hightstown, N.J.; birthdate also appears as 1890; d. 1983. From the description of Alphaeus H. and Lillian Smith Albert collection, ca. 1700-[ongoing]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70942139 ...

ALBERT, LILLIAN SMITH

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Union Transportation Company

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