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United Transportation Union
Nelsen, Malcolm H.
Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen
Briers, Kenneth A.
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1950s-1960s
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4.6 Cubic feet (14 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.1173
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
The collection relates to Nelson's work with railroad labor unions, including the United Transportation Union and the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen. The collection includes grievance files, bylaws of committees of the unions, meeting minutes and reports of those committees, company newsletters, and internal memoranda.
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Watkins, J. Elfreth (John Elfreth), 1852-1903
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1869, 1881-1903, 1953, 1966 and undated
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1.25 cu. ft. (2 document boxes) (1 half document box)
- Collection ID:
- Record Unit 7268
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
This collection consists of Watkins' official and personal correspondence concerning the efforts of the Smithsonian to obtain federal appropriations for the establishment of a section of steam transportation in the USNM, the construction of ship models for an exhibit at the Cotton States and International Exposition, Watkins' research on the ...
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Wheeling and Lake Erie Railway
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1925-1942.
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2 Cubic feet (6 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.1075
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Over nine hundred official company photographs documenting the history of the railroad. Subjects include trains, locomotives and cars; employees and employee gatherings and events; structures such as stations, track, bridges, crossings, towers, coaling stations.
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Camden and Amboy R.R. Rules and Traffic Agreements
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Camden and Amboy Railroad.
Library of Congress
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1844-1871
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0.15 Cubic feet (1 volume)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0152
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
This volume contains a record of railroad rules for railroad employees, traffic agreements with other railroads, and operating orders to train crews and other employees including steamboat captains on the Delaware and Raritan Rivers signed by the railroad superintendent and other officials. These orders include general duties of conductors and o...
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McBride, Harry A.
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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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Amtrak
ConRail
- Dates:
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1922-2000
bulk 1968-1990
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13 Cubic feet (13 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.1327
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
The collection documents railroad ephemera, primarily relating to Amtrak and Conrail.
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Erie Railroad Company
Olevsky, Walter
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circa 1880-1980
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57 Cubic feet (60 boxes, 97 map-folders)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.1082
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Collection consists of six hundred sixty-eight (668) glass negatives relating to the Erie Railroad. Subjects include stations, train cars, railroad employees, employees' recreational activities, ferries, construction, street scenes, and resort hotels; drawings of structures built by the various railroads which, at the time of the donation, constitu...
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Bissell, Hezekiah
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1920-1928
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0.2 Cubic feet (1 box)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.1445
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Collection documents the reminiscences of Hezekiah Bissell, a railroad engineer who worked in the western United States with the Union Pacific Railroad, and in Peru.
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Grand Trunk Western Railroad Company
New York Central Railroad Company
- Dates:
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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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Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company
Pittsburgh and Lake Erie Railroad Company
Reading Company
United Transportation Union
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1910-1986
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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...
