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Thomas Norrell Railroad Photographs Collection

Creators:: Norrell, Thomas, 1899-1985
Dates:: circa 1840-circa 1960
bulk 1870-1940
Size:: 18 Cubic feet (84 boxes)
Collection ID:: NMAH.AC.1174
Repository:: Archives Center, National Museum of American History

Approximately 11,000 images collected by Thomas Norrell consisting of original photographic prints and photographic postcards, original film and glass plate negatives, and duplicate/copy photographic prints and negatives. The majority are external views of single locomotive engines of North American railroad and industrial companies. Images of international railroad company locomotives and of representative locomotives from various locomotive works and builders are also included. The collection contains a small number of subject-specific images covering such topics as train wrecks, funeral trains, experimental locomotives, miniature trains, and locomotives at the 1933 and 1939 World's Fairs.

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Warshaw Collection of Business Americana Subject Categories: Railroads

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Creators:: Warshaw, Isadore, 1900-1969
Dates:: 1832-1977
Size:: 60.54 Cubic feet (consisting of 131 boxes, 13 folders, 17 oversize folders, 20 map case folders, 2 flat boxes (1 full, 1 partial), plus digital images of some collection material.)
Collection ID:: NMAH.AC.0060.S01.01.Railroads
Repository:: Archives Center, National Museum of American History

A New York bookseller, Warshaw assembled this collection over nearly fifty years. The Warshaw Collection of Business Americana: Railroads forms part of the Warshaw Collection of Business Americana, Subseries 1.1: Subject Categories. The Subject Categories subseries is divided into 470 subject categories based on those created by Mr. Warshaw. These subject categories include topical subjects, types or forms of material, people, organizations, historical events, and other categories. An overview to the entire Warshaw collection is available here: Warshaw Collection of Business Americana

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Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad Negatives

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Creators:: Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad Company.
Dates:: 1890-1915, undated.
Size:: 2.33 Cubic feet (7 boxes)
Collection ID:: NMAH.AC.1080
Repository:: Archives Center, National Museum of American History

The photographic images in this collection are largely of railway bridge construction and other properties owned by the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad Company at the turn of the twentieth century. Images are of two distinct projects (mostly construction) taken in and around the St. Louis, Missouri area (1890-1900): of a bridge project (name and location unknown) spanning 1902-1903; and of the construction of the Metropolis Bridge (that crosses the Ohio River at Metropolis, Illinois, about 12 miles south of Paducah, Kentucky) between 1914-1915. For the latter project Ralph Modjeski originally served as consultant engineer and then as chief civil engineer of construction. There are also negatives of unidentified bridge construction.

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Harry A. McBride Railroad Photographs

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Creators:: McBride, Harry A.
Dates:: ca. 1940s-1950s.
Size:: 4.5 Cubic feet
Collection ID:: NMAH.AC.1171
Repository:: Archives Center, National Museum of American History

The collection consists of approxiamtely 3,000 views of railroads, railroad equipment, stations, yards and employees. The emphasis is on American railroads, but the collection includes a few views of railroad subjects in Africa, Asia, Central and South America, Europe, Scandinavia and several island nations.

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Pullman Palace Car Company Collection

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Creators:: Pullman Palace Car Co.
Pullman, George M., 1831-1897
Dates:: 1867-1982
bulk 1900-1930
Size:: 8 Cubic feet (11 boxes)
Collection ID:: NMAH.AC.0181
Repository:: Archives Center, National Museum of American History

Records of the Pullman Company, manufacturers and operators of railroad sleeping cars. Pullman also manufactured hospital and dining cars at its Chicago facilities. Dating from 1867 to 1982 (bulk 1900-1930s), the collection includes background materials, correspondence, financial, personnel and operating records, drawings and photographs.

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James J. Hill Scrapbook

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Creators:: Warshaw, Isadore, 1900-1969
Hill, James Jerome, 1838-1916
Dates:: 1916
Size:: 0.66 Cubic feet (1 box)
Collection ID:: NMAH.AC.0334
Repository:: Archives Center, National Museum of American History

Scrapbook contains clippings of the news stories and obituaries printed after the death of James J. Hill on May 29, 1916, drawn from newspapers throughout the United States and Canada. The 151 scrapbook pages (13" x 15") contain newspaper clippings of the news stories and obituaries of the death of James Jerome Hill on May 29, 1916 at age 78. The ...