Transportation miscellany, 1836-1932.

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Transportation miscellany, 1836-1932.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/86123558

Metzler's collection is a combination of original items, including documents taken from the company's official records, and clippings from newspapers and employee magazines. Many of the latter are from THE PILOT, which is available in its entirety in the Imprints Dept. The original items are mostly ephemera, such as early tickets, seat checks, timetables , scrip from the hard times of the 1840s, receipts, and autographs of Reading presidents and other officials cut from official documents.

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Hagley Museum & Library

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Cryder, John

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Gowen, Franklin B. (Franklin Benjamin), 1836-1889

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Franklin B. Gowen, a lawyer, was president of the Pennsylvania and Reading Railroad Company, 1869-1883. From the description of To the miners and laborers of the Philadelphia & Reading Coal and Iron Company, 1877 March 17. (Pennsylvania State University Libraries). WorldCat record id: 35766271 ...

Robert Morris (Steamboat).

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Pennsylvania Railroad Company. Parkesburg Shops.

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Schuylkill Navigation Company

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The Schuylkill Navigation Company constructed a canal along the Schuylkill River from Philadelphia to the anthracite coal field near Pottsville in 1815-1825. From the description of Subscription list for loans, 1824-1824. (Hagley Museum & Library). WorldCat record id: 86123565 The Schuylkill Navigation Company was incorporated under the laws of Pennsylvania on March 8, 1815, for the purpose of improving the navigation of the Schuylkill River above tide. The ...

Veteran Employes' Association of the Philadelphia and Reading Railway Company.

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Mine Hill and Schuylkill Haven Railroad Company

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The Mine Hill & Schuylkill Haven Railroad Company was incorporated under the laws of Pennsylvania on March 24, 1828, and was leased by the Philadelphia & Reading Railroad Company on May 12, 1864. It was extinguished by merger into the Reading Company on October 1, 1951. The first section of the Mine Hill & Schuylkill Haven Railroad was opened in 1830 from Coal Castle in the Schuylkill Coal Field west of Pottsville, Pa. to Schuylkill Haven on the Schuylkill Ca...

Navigation Railroad Company.

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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...

Neversink (Locomotive).

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Catawissa, Williamsport and Erie Railroad Company

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Thomas Powell (Steamboat).

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Metzler, Christian E., collector.

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Christian E. Metzler, a native of Strasburg, Lancaster County, Pa., was a career employee of the Reading Company and its predecessors. He joined the service of the Philadelphia & Reading Railroad Company as an assistant station agent at Palmyra, Pa., in 1869 and retired in 1916 after sixteen years as the Reading's Eastern Agent at Boston. Metzler wrote on the history of early American railroads and the Reading in particular, mostly for employee magazines and local newspapers. He was also a m...

Dauphin and Susquehanna Coal Company

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Philadelphia & Reading Railroad Co.

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In 1833, the Philadelphia & Reading Railroad Company (P & R) was established to serve the burgeoning anthracite coal industry and its customers throughout southeastern Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Delaware. The railroad also supported iron making, canal and sea-going transportation, and shipbuilding, establishing itself as a transportation industry giant for over a century. During the American Industrial Revolution, the P & R provided trackage to the most densely industrialized parts...

Guilford, Simeon, 1801-1894.

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Catawissa Railroad Company

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Lombaert, Herman J., 1816-1885

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Schuylkill and Susquehanna Railroad Company.

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Mount Carbon Railroad Company.

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Centennial Exhibition 1876 Philadelphia, Pa.

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The Centennial Exhibition of 1876 marked the 100th anniversary of American freedom. The celebration took place in Philadelphia from May 10 to November 10 and attracted over eight million visitors. The exhibition spread across 450 acres of ground in Fairmont Park and consisted of over 200 buildings. Planning for the event began in 1870, and in 1871, Congress established the United States Centennial Commission to plan and run the exhibition. The following year saw the incorporation of the Centenni...

North Pennsylvania Railroad Company

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The Philadelphia, Easton and Water-Gap Railroad Company was incorporated in Pennsylvania on April 6, 1852, and renamed the North Pennsylvania Railroad Company on October 3, 1853. The company's object was to link Philadelphia with northeastern Pennsylvania and central and western New York, but it was only able to construct a line as far as Bethlehem (1853-1857) with a branch to Doylestown (1856), relying on connections with the Lehigh Valley Railroad at Bethlehem. As it o...

Auburn and Port Clinton Railroad Company.

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Union Canal Company of Pennsylvania

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The Schuylkill and Susquehanna Navigation Company, founded in 1791, and the Delaware and Schuylkill Navigation Company, founded in 1792, merged in 1811 to form the Union Canal Company for the purpose of building an east-west canal through Pennsylvania. From the description of Records, 1792-1833. (Historical Society of Pennsylvania). WorldCat record id: 122316549 The Union Canal Company of Pennsylvania was incorporated in Pennsylvania on April 2, 1811, for the pu...

Jackson, P. T. (Patrick Tracy), 1780-1847

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Jackson's father, Patrick Tracy Jackson, was instrumental in the founding of Lowell, Mass., the Merrimack Manufacturing Company, the Appleton Company, etc., and was on the Board of Directors of the Essex Company, which developed Lawrence, Mass. From the description of [Weaving superintendent's notebook]. 1898-1900. (American Textile History Museum Library). WorldCat record id: 48433790 ...

Philadelphia and Reading Coal and Iron Company

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The Philadelphia and Reading Coal and Iron Company, a subsidiary of the Philadelphia and Reading Rail Road, was founded in 1871 to allow its parent corporation to control the transportation of anthracite coal mined in eastern Pennsylvania. The coal company operated mines and coal processing plants, and the finished product was shipped via the railroad's lines. The Philadelphia and Reading Iron and Coal Company became a separate corporation in 1923 after the U.S. government initiated an anti-trus...