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Railroads -- New York (State)

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 35 Collections and/or Records:

Simon Newton Dexter papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 753
Abstract

Correspondence, accounts, orders, receipts, notes, contracts, and other papers relating to Dexter's business and political activities.

Dates: 1785-1862.

Theo Woodward letter : to Jon Woodward

 Collection — Manuscript box 22 - folder 1: [Barcode: 31924065243507]
Identifier: 181m
Scope and content

A detailed letter containing family news and an account of Theo Woodward's business hauling lime and timber with his team of horses. He also briefly discusses the prospect of a railroad track being built through his area of northern New York from Montreal.

Dates: 1847 January 14.

Transport Workers Union of America Local 2001 Files

 Collection
Identifier: 5800
Abstract

This collection consists of the records of Salvatore S. Biondo, executive vice-president and president of TWU Local 2001, Railroad Division, in Albany, New York.

Dates: 1937-1979

Walter J. Mueller letter : to the Central New York Chapter, National Railway Historical Society

 Collection — Manuscript box 58 - folder 1: [Barcode: 31924065252912]
Identifier: 3400m
Scope and content

Typewritten letter in response to two publications by the Central New York Chapter of the National Railway Historical Society on railroads of central New York. Mueller reminisces about riding the Lehigh Valley Railroad and the Lackawanna Railroad, and watching the Lehigh Valley night train from Buffalo to New York as it came down West Hill to stop at the Ithaca station.

Dates: 1974 January 19.

William Pierrepont White collection

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 399
Abstract

Correspondence, diaries, deeds, accounts, maps, surveys, pamphlets, statements, registers, bills, land contracts, inventories, cashbooks, indentures, minutes, and other records and papers reflecting the westward and southward movement of members of the White and related families.

Dates: 1728-1939.