Warshaw Collection of Business Americana Subject Categories: Railroads
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- Creators:
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Warshaw, Isadore, 1900-1969
- Dates:
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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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Vogel, Robert M.
Bollman, Wendell, 1814-1884
- Dates:
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1852-1986
- Size:
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3 Cubic feet (4 boxes and 1 map-folder)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.1064
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Collection documents various aspects of the development, implementation and research value of the Bollman truss bridge design.
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Treloar, Elmer, 1902-
- Dates:
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1970-1973.
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0.3 Cubic feet (1 box)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.1078
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
A collection of negatives of photographs documenting railroad stations in the United States and Canada. The majority of the slides are of stations in the Midwestern U.S.
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Felton, Samuel Morse, 1809-1889 (civil engineer)
Felton, Samuel Morse, 1853-1930 (son)
- Dates:
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1841-1930, undated
- Size:
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0.3 Cubic feet (2 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0170
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Papers of Samuel Morse Felton, civil engineer and railroad president, and his family.
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Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company
Garrett, John W. (John Work), 1820-1884
- Dates:
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1850-1880
- Size:
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0.6 Cubic feet (2 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0171
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Collection is now part of AC1086, Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Records.
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Merker, Walter H., Jr.
PCC and St. L Railroad
- Dates:
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1925-1928
- Size:
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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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Watkins, J. Elfreth (John Elfreth), 1852-1903
- Dates:
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1869, 1881-1903, 1953, 1966 and undated
- Size:
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1.25 cu. ft. (2 document boxes) (1 half document box)
- Collection ID:
- Record Unit 7268
- Repository:
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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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- Dates:
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1867-1927
- Size:
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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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McBride, Harry A.
- Dates:
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ca. 1940s-1950s.
- Size:
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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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- Dates:
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1861-1994
- Size:
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76 Boxes
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.1136
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
The collection documents various aspects of railroad companies through pamphlets; trade catalogs; operating and service manuals, especially for railroad equipment; specifications; magazines and reprints; bulletins, and articles.
