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Railroads -- Design and construction

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 8 Collections and/or Records:

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.

Cyril M. Dickinson correspondence

 Collection — Manuscript box 12 - folder 1: [Barcode: 31924065241733]
Identifier: 2088
Scope and content Copy of letter from Dickinson of Denver, Colorado, to John G. Morrison, Bemidji, Minnesota including reminiscences concerning timber stands and logging operations, transportation by steamboat, stagecoach, and sleigh, railroad construction, and living conditions in northern Minnesota (late 1890s to early 1900s) after the Chippewa Reservation was opened to settlement with tributes to Jay P. Kinney, Addison C. Goddard, and Morrison for their work on Indian timber lands; also Kinney's comments...
Dates: 1960-1961.

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.

Letters to a Civil Engineer in New York State

 Collection
Identifier: 5035m
Abstract

Letters from Charles Wheeler and others to Edwin A. Case

Dates: 1872-1876

New York and Pennsylvania Railway Co. records

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 358
Abstract

Daily, monthly, and yearly records of the operation of the railroad.

Dates: 1892-1935.

Oliver Hazard Perry Cornell miscellany

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924088353861]
Identifier: 37-5-2053
Scope and content

Oliver H. P. Cornell's diploma from Cornell University; railroad work estimate for the Utica, Ithaca, and Elmira Railroad; photograph of Oliver H. P. Cornell, and photograph of his wife Louisa Conklin; and pocket watch.

Dates: 1874.

Trautwine family papers

 Collection
Identifier: 760
Abstract

Correspondence, diaries, clippings, photographs, and other material relating largely to the engineering interests of John Cresson Trautwine, Sr., II, and III.

Dates: 1834-1947.