Harry A. McBride Railroad Photographs
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McBride, Harry A.
Work and Industry, Division of, NMAH, SI
Transportation, Division of, NMAH, SI.
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ca. 1940s-1950s.
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4.5 Cubic feet
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.1171
- Repository:
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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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Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company
Pittsburgh and Lake Erie Railroad Company
Reading Company
United Transportation Union
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1910-1986
- Size:
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1.3 Cubic feet (4 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.1172
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Printed materials collected by Metz during his railroad career, including timetables, rule books, operational manuals, safety manuals, labor union materials, regulations, Metz' IDs and certifications, blank company forms, company newsletters, and internal memoranda and correspondence. The papers relate to several railroads: Western Maryland Railway...
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Merker, Walter H., Jr.
PCC and St. L Railroad
- Dates:
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1925-1928
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0.3 Cubic feet (1 box)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.1079
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
The collection consists of photographic prints of railroad construction in Pierron, St. Jacob, and Collinsville, Illinois, from 1925-1927.
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Work and Industry, Division of, NMAH, SI
Grand Trunk Western Railroad Company
New York Central Railroad Company
Mechanical and Civil Engineering, Division of [former name], NMAH, SI.
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1914-1923
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12 Cubic feet (36 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.1072
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
The collection consists of photographic negatives relating to a valuation study of the New York Central Railroad dating from 1914 to 1923.
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Steel, R. Wallace
- Dates:
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1864-1903
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2 Cubic feet (1 map-folder)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.1449
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
The collection documents railroad engineer R. Wallace Steel and his work with railroads, primarily in Pennsylvania and Missouri.
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Work and Industry, Division of, NMAH, SI
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1867-1927
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1 Cubic foot (1 box)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.1468
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
The collection contains stereographs by various makers. Most depict trains, railroads and railroad related subjects such as railyards, railroad bridges, elevated trains.
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Warshaw, Isadore, 1900-1969
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1832-1977
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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:
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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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Transportation, Division of, NMAH, SI.
Hamily, David
- Dates:
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1912-1949
- Size:
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1.5 Cubic feet (5 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0207
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
This collection consists of statistics on electric train operation, drawings, blueprints, technical papers, train classifications, research and development reports, business and financial correspondence (1933, 1939-1948, 1940-1941), installation and operation instructions, locomotive system test procedures, locomotive operations data and calculatio...
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Swatara Railroad Company
Agriculture, Divison of (NMAH)
Donaldson, William
Swatara and Good Spring Railroad
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1805-1894.
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1 Cubic foot (3 vertical boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0272
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Documents relating to the business of the Swatara Railroad Company of Danville, Pennsylvania and particularly of its president, "Judge" William Donaldson. Includes receipts, bills, contracts, operating statistics, financial statements and correspondence, filed chronologically by year.
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Hall, Clayton M.
- Dates:
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1936-1966, undated
- Size:
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1 Cubic foot (3 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.1168
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
A collection of black and white photographic negatives depicting railroad scenes and locomotives in the United States and Canada, taken by Clayton M. Hall of Princeton, New Jersey.