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Railroads.

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 20 Collections and/or Records:

Clare R. J. Rogers speech

 Collection — Manuscript box 63 - folder 1: [Barcode: 31924065256756]
Identifier: 4014
Scope and content

Program, "100th Anniversary of Arrival of the First Train on the Springfield & Sardinia Railroad," August 6, 1978; also, "Springfield & Sardinia Railroad," Clare R.J. Rogers' speech at the August 6, 1978 anniversary celebration.

Dates: 1978.

Ernest Ingersoll White papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 1843
Abstract

Papers of E.I. White and his family.

Dates: 1820-1960.

Gene Endres railroad research collection

 Collection
Identifier: 8844
Content Description

Collection contains newsletters, sound recordings of trains leaving and arriving at stations, postcards of trains and railway stations, identified photographs of trains, railway related ephemera, slides, railway timetables, and 2 books.

Dates: 1900 - 2022

Henry Cooley diaries

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924064937190]
Identifier: 1703
Scope and content

Diaries written by Henry Cooley of Eagle, Wyoming County, New York, an itinerant farm hand, wood chopper, and small scale money lender. Mentioned are a trip to Muscoda, Wisconsin, town and camp meetings, the Geneseo fair, the election of 1876, and work on the State Line Railroad, in addition to accounts of weather, chores performed, recreational activities, and other subjects.

Dates: 1867-1877.

Henry W. Sage papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 1155
Abstract

The Sage papers consists of material pertaining to his business interests, the affairs of Cornell University, and his personal interests.

Dates: 1814-1930.

John Nolen papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 2903
Abstract Collection consists of personal and professional correspondence, letterbooks, addresses, biographical data, diaries, scrapbooks, school notes and textbooks, syllabi, lectures and outlines, typescript papers and articles, printed material, policy directives, card files, sample contracts, projects files and reports, slides, photographs, negatives, plans, blueprints, drawings, charts, and maps relating to Nolen's work in city planning, preservation, survey projects, zoning, and extension...
Dates: 1890-1938, 1954-1960.

Juan Pattison papers

 Collection — Manuscript box 6 - folder 1: [Barcode: 31924065240545]
Identifier: 866
Scope and content Letters, advertisements, and clippings pertaining to Pattison's Improved Oscillating Engine, and his work on iron-clad vessels for Corning, Winslow & Co.; also letters from Syracuse, New York to his sister and brother-in-law Anita and John Whittle of Chorley, England, regarding his writing on engineering subjects, his interest in several railroad and canal projects, and in particular a projected railroad across the Isthmus of Panama (1868-1869), his attempts to promote his projects with...
Dates: 1856-1876.

New York Central & Hudson River R.R. Company records and publication

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924064943271]
Identifier: 3656
Scope and content

Includes "Report on Greater New York Freight Terminal Improvements including Additional Grand Central Station Passenger Connections," 1906-1907, with photographs, drawings, and maps; "Electric Zone, New York District," 1906; and a publication, "The Four-Track News," July 1901, Vol. I, No. 1.

Dates: 1901-1907.