Vermont Transit Company records, 1926-2008.

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Vermont Transit Company records, 1926-2008.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/729583412

A significant component of this collection consists of financial, organizational and operational records: audits and financial reports from 1929 to 1973, articles of incorporation, deeds and leases, marketing materials, bus schedules and 82 years of newspaper clippings. There is also a vast amount of tourist information included: tour brochures from the 1950s through the 1990s, a document box full of slides from VTL-sponsored trips, mostly from the 1970s and 1980s, and another box containing audio reels and video tapes from the same period. William Appleyard's interest in aviation is also documented by newspaper clippings in scrapbooks. Topics include the first commercial flight from Burlington, Amelia Earhart's visit to the Queen City in 1934, and Burlington Mayor James Burke's first flight at the age of 86.

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Haseloff, Albert E., 1901-1936.

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Bessette, Kenneth.

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Burke, James E., 1849-1943.

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