Scope and content

Eliot family correspondence, souvenirs of Bloomington Illinois, and a collection of newspapers, speeches, pamphlets, handbills, maps, timetables, and miscellany having to do largely with railroads and land development in the Midwest and the sale of Indian lands in 1904.

Abstract

Time tables, notices, circulars, employee agreements, material pertaining to the maintenance of equipment, freight and passenger account books, brass checks for non-English speaking employees, special passes, a typescript history of the two railroads.

Scope and content

Included are pamphlets, timetables, advertisements (some photocopies), broadsides, maps, serials, photographs and negatives, alphabetical files, land laws, newsletters, newspapers, and reprints. Pamphlets concern the following topics: agriculture, art, government, history, politics, religion, social science, industry, transportation, and education; also, airline, bus, boat, and railroad timetables.

Abstract

Allen's history of the railroad, with research notes and correspondence; a corporate history. Railroad material includes correspondence, reports, financial records, employee records, timetables, pamphlets, newspapers, broadsides, maps, blueprints, charts, and photographs. Also records of predecessor, affiliated, or otherwise connected railroads.

Abstract Primarily letter impression books, loose correspondence, orders, bills, receipts, accounts, time-books, insurance policies, broadsides, photographs of the Ithaca Railway Company; correspondence of general managers directed to equipment manufacturers, and also concerning construction and rental of an apartment house in Cornell Heights under railway sponsorship; form letter from the Duplicate Transfer and Rebate Company of Philadelphis offering to furnish industrial spies; release and decision...