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Railroads -- New York (State)

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 35 Collections and/or Records:

Andrew Strong White and Claire Howard White papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 2512
Scope and content Included are manuscripts of 16 essays (ca.1886) written by Mr. White while an undergraduate at Cornell; extracts from lectures on paleontologyand geology given by Professor Henry Shaler Williams, 1886-87; Junior Prize for Oratory medal, 1887; two candlesticks inscribed "Second Prize, Land and Water Contest"; record book pertaining to the Salina and Central Square Plank Road Company of Syracuse, a railroad company of which White was a stockholder and officer, including minutes of Board of...
Dates: 1886-1963.

Black River and Utica Railroad records

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924064937638]
Identifier: 1143
Scope and content

Correspondence between Samuel Case and John Thorn relating to subscriptions for stock to expand the Railroad to Lyons Falls, Lewis County, 1865-1866; work estimates for building and repair on the railroad; and other items on railroads and the enlargement of the Erie and Oswego Canals.

Dates: 1854-1866.

Buffalo & Susquehanna Railway account statements

 Collection — Manuscript box 5 - folder 1: [Barcode: 31924065240388]
Identifier: 795m
Scope and content

Account statements showing income and expenses for the Buffalo & Susquehanna Railway for June 1913 compared with June 1914, for January-June 1914, and for July 1913-June 1914.

Dates: 1913-1914.

Canvass White papers

 Collection — Manuscript box 78 - folder 1: [Barcode: 31924065254009]
Identifier: 609
Abstract

Papers documenting canal engineer and cement manufacturer Canvass White's career.

Dates: 1814-1835.

Cayuga and Susquehanna Railroad proposal

 Collection — Manuscript box 2 - folder 1: [Barcode: 31924065239588]
Identifier: 249m
Scope and content

Cayuga and Susquehanna Railroad Proposal (6 leaves, 11 pages) and 1 map of F.B.C. Co.'s Railways in Pennsylvania and New York State.

Dates: ca. 1846.

Central New York transportation documents and flour trade correspondence

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924064938396]
Identifier: 65
Scope and content Correspondence (chiefly business and financial dealings) concerning transportation in central New York State, including Ithaca, Syracuse, Owego, Elmira, and Albany. Topics include the Ithaca and Owego Rail Road, the New York and Erie Railroad, land purchases, steamboats to Ithaca and Owego, a mill owned by Francis A. Bloodgood, the Chemung Canal, Ithaca canals and streams, a proposed turnpike road from the head of Seneca Lake to Elmira, and public opinion and politics in Ithaca. Also...
Dates: 1678-1683 and 1823-1934,-1823-1866 (bulk).

Cornell Public Library manuscript collections

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 2594
Abstract

Various manuscripts related or belonging to the Cornell Public Library (now Ithaca Public Library).

Dates: 1818 - 1905; Majority of material found within 1818 - 1887

Covell vs. New York Central Railroad Company legal documents

 Collection — Manuscript box 8 - folder 1: [Barcode: 31924065240875]
Identifier: 1131m
Scope and content

Manuscript and printed legal documents and correspondence concerning the case as it came before the Oneida County (New York) Circuit Court, the Oneida County Supreme Court, and then before the Supreme Court for the Fifth Judicial District of the State of New York. Included are transcripts of Stephen Covell's testimony and letters among the attorneys involved in the case: C.W. White, the plaintiff's attorney, and Kernan, Quinn & Kernan, the defendant's attorneys.

Dates: 1857-1859.

Davenport family papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 1903
Abstract

The collection pertains chiefly to investments in lands in New York State, Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Michigan, Minnesota, and Nebraska, to interests in mining, railway, mercantile, banking, and other business ventures, and to the settlement of family estates.

Dates: 1800-1941.

DeForest Douglas Diver railroad photographs

 Collection — Box 8
Identifier: 1948
Abstract

Original photographs, glass plates and other negatives, and glossy prints, mainly of the New York, Ontario, and Western Railway, taken by Mr. Diver and others in Delaware, Madison, Oneida, Oswego, Otsego, and Sullivan Counties, New York.

Dates: ca. 1870-1950.