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Railroads -- Freight

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:

Earl E. Fitch railroad receipts

 Collection — Folder S1803
Identifier: S1803
Scope and Contents This collection is made up of 8 way-bills from the 1850s, most for merchandise shipped from Richmond to New Castle, Indiana. These way-bills show transactions for: the Eaton and Hamilton and Richmond and Miami Railroads; the Cincinnati, Logansport and Chicago Railroad; the Cincinnati and Chicago Railroad Line; and hauling for which shipping point and destination are handwritten without designation of a railroad line. Basic information on each way-bill consists of shipper,...
Dates: 1854-1856

Sawyer and Company account book

 Collection — Volume V162
Identifier: V162
Scope and Contents This collection contains one account book created by Sawyer and Company in Indianapolis in 1863 regarding shipments of dry goods via railroads.
Dates: 1863 March-1863 May