Railroads
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 71 Collections and/or Records:
Smithers family photograph album
Collection — Volume 1
Identifier: P036
Scope and Contents
This collection includes a photograph album containing photographs and photographic postcards of the Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, Chicago and St. Louis Railroad construction in Mier, Indiana; construction of the Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad in Medford, Blountsville and Muncie, including a photograph of the Delaware County Courthouse and passenger station; and construction of the Louisville and Nashville Railroad in Winchester, Indiana.Also included are family photographs of the Smithers...
Dates:
circa 1900-1910s
Taggart's Union Station Dining Room menus
Collection — Folder S3226
Identifier: S3226
Scope and Contents
This collection includes over 30 menus from Taggart's Union Station Dining Room in Indianapolis, Indiana ranging from 1888 to 1890.
Dates:
1888-1890
Thomas N. Kersey collection
Collection — Folder S1892
Identifier: S1892
Scope and Contents
This collection includes an agreement between Thomas and Elizabeth Kersey and Robert A. Clark, a representative of the Lafayette and Indianapolis Rapid Railway Company, in 1904 regarding building a railroad on land granted to the company by the Kersey family.
Dates:
1904/04/24
Toledo, St. Louis and Western compensation case papers
Collection — Folder S2384
Identifier: S2384
Scope and Contents
This collection contains legal correspondence and documents ranging from January 1920 to March 1921 regarding the claim for just compensation by the Toledo, St. Louis and Western Railroad Company and the company's receiver, Walter L. Ross. The declaration was brought before the Board of Referees appointed by the Interstate Commerce Commission, namely Winthrop M. Daniels, Henry C. Keene, and John J. Hickey. Organized in a folder from the Office of General Counsel, United States Railroad...
Dates:
1920-1921
Vigo County Public Library, Donald Eugene Foltz oral history
Collection — Box 73, Folder: OH173
Identifier: OH172
Dates:
1981/06/29
Virginia Ellis Jenckes papers
Collection
Identifier: L374
Scope and Contents
The collection consists primarily of correspondences, papers, speeches, clippings, pamphlets, ephemera, and photographs from Virginia Ellis Jenckes’s congressional and nonprofit work nonprofit work in Indiana, Washington, D.C., and France, ranging from 1930 to 1951, regarding her political career and work with the Red Cross, as well as the Agriculture Waste Recovery Project (1933–1943) and other efforts to help farmers during the Depression; flood control on the Wabash and White Rivers;...
Dates:
1918-1951
Wayne Guthrie collection
Collection
Identifier: L589
Scope and Contents
This collection includes notes, correspondence, photographs and newspaper clippings from Wayne Guthrie in Indianapolis, Indiana ranging from 1804 to 1973 regarding Indiana history and notable Indiana persons.
Dates:
1804-1973
Found in:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
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Wayne Guthrie collection
William C. Birthright collection
Collection
Identifier: L328
Scope and Contents
The collection includes correspondence, invitations, greeting cards, legal papers, publications, photographs, and ephemera from William C. and William L. Birthright in Indiana and Mississippi, ranging from 1908 to 1977 and undated, regarding their personal lives, family, business, military service, and careers.
Dates:
1908-1977
William F. Jones papers
Collection
Identifier: L086
Scope and Contents
This collection contains personal and business papers and correspondence of William F. Jones ranging from 1827 to 1890. The correspondence regards Jones’s land and business interest in Blackford and Delaware County and his work on the Fort Wayne and Southern Railroad. There is also information regarding state and national politics, receipts, and a girl’s diary. Correspondents include Jones’s family in Ohio, his daughter and son-in-law, Thomas Dowling, William H. English, Andrew J....
Dates:
1827-1890
Found in:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
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William F. Jones papers
Williamson Wright papers
Collection — Folder S1465
Identifier: S1465
Scope and Contents
This collection includes 23 letters from Williamson Wright in Logansport and Indianapolis, Indiana, ranging from 1837 to 1865, including business correspondence from Wright's legal business, concerning his cases on Indian claims, roads, railroads, canals and canal lands; political correspondence regarding issues before the Indiana General Assembly, as well as Whig and Republican Party politics; and correspondence about his involvement with railroad companies.
Dates:
1837-1865
Found in:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
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Williamson Wright papers
