Format | • | Manuscript Collection | [X] |
Subject | • | Railroads -- United States -- Management. | [X] | | • | Railroad companies -- United States. |
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| | • | Alleghany Corporation. |
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| | • | Baldwin, Dudley. |
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| | • | Blosser, Raymond F., 1913- |
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| | • | Capitalists and financiers -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Biography. |
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| | • | Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad Company. |
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| | • | Chesapeake and Ohio Railway Company. |
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| | • | Cleveland (Ohio) -- Biography. |
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| | • | Cleveland Terminals Building Company. |
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| | • | Cleveland and Mahoning Valley Railroad. |
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| | • | Devereux family. |
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| | • | Harness racehorses -- United States. |
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| | • | Harness racing -- United States. |
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| | • | Hitchcock, Reuben, 1806-1883. |
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| | • | Hocking Valley Railway Company. |
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| | • | Horse-racing -- United States. |
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| | • | Horses -- United States -- Breeding. |
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| | • | Kinsman, Frederick, 1807-1877. |
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| | • | Lake Erie and Western Railroad Company. |
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| | • | Logbooks. |
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| | • | Missouri Pacific Railroad Company. |
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| | • | New York, Chicago, and St. Louis Railroad. |
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| | • | Pere Marquette Railway. |
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| | • | Perkins, Jacob, 1821-1859. |
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| | • | Race horses -- United States. |
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| | • | Railroad companies -- United States -- Management. |
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| | • | Railroad terminals -- Ohio -- Cleveland. |
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| | • | Railroads -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- History. |
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| | • | Railroads -- United States -- Consolidation. |
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| | • | Railroads -- United States -- Construction. |
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| | • | Real estate development -- Ohio -- Shaker Heights. |
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| | • | Rhodes, Charles L. |
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| | • | Shaker Heights Rapid Transit. |
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| | • | Ship's papers. |
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| | • | Smith, Charles. |
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| | • | Terminal Tower Complex (Cleveland, Ohio) |
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| | • | Tod, David, 1805-1868. |
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| | • | Toledo, St. Louis and Western Railroad. |
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| | • | United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Sources. |
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| | • | United States. Interstate Commerce Commission. |
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| | • | Van Sweringen, Mantis James, 1881-1935. |
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| | • | Van Sweringen, Oris Paxton, 1879-1936. |
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| | Manuscript Collection | Requires cookie* | | 1 | Title: | Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad Company Correspondence
| | | | Creator: | Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad Company | | | | Dates: | 1869-1874 | | | | Abstract: | The Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad Company is one of the oldest railroads in America, the Chesapeake and Ohio was created by an act of the Virginia legislature in 1826. Known as the Louisa Railroad prior to 1868, a major source of the C & O's income was for many years hauling coal from the coal fields of Virginia and West Virginia to ports along the Potomac River and to industries in the midwest. During the 1920s, the C & O was owned by the Van Sweringen brothers, with corporate offices in Cleveland's Terminal Tower. Cyrus Eaton served as chairman of the board for nearly 20 years beginning in 1954. In 1962, the C & O was merged with the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad to create the Chessie System, which, along with Seaboard Coastline Industries, make up the CSX Corporation. The collection consists of business letters received by H.D. Whitcomb, chief engineer, Richmond, Virginia, 1869-1871; and letters received by A.H. Perry, general superintendent, C.P. Huntington, president, and J.J. Tracy, treasurer, 1872-1874. | | | | Call #: | MS 1089 | | | | Extent: | 1.00 linear feet (3 containers) | | | | Subjects: | Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad Company. | Railroad companies -- United States. | Railroads -- United States -- Management.
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| Manuscript Collection | Requires cookie* | | 2 | Title: | Frederick Kinsman Papers
| | | | Creator: | Kinsman, Frederick | | | | Dates: | 1854-1877 | | | | Abstract: | Frederick Kinsman (1807-1877) was Director of the Cleveland and Mahoning Valley Railroad. The collection consists of general correspondence (1866-1877) and accounts, agreements, and mortgage bond receipts (1854-1867), relating to the Cleveland and Mahoning Valley Railroad. Includes references to Dudley Baldwin, Reuben Hitchcock, Jacob Perkins, Charles L. Rhodes, Charles Smith, David Tod, directors of the railroad. | | | | Call #: | MS 0825 | | | | Extent: | 0.20 linear feet (1 container) | | | | Subjects: | Kinsman, Frederick, 1807-1877. | Baldwin, Dudley. | Hitchcock, Reuben, 1806-1883. | Perkins, Jacob, 1821-1859. | Rhodes, Charles L. | Smith, Charles. | Tod, David, 1805-1868. | Cleveland and Mahoning Valley Railroad. | Railroad companies -- United States -- Management. | Railroads -- United States -- Management.
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| Manuscript Collection | Requires cookie* | | 3 | Title: | Devereux Family Papers
| | | | Creator: | Devereux Family | | | | Dates: | 1808-1932 | | | | Abstract: | John Devereux was a sea captain of Marblehead, Mass. John H. Devereux was an American Civil War general, engineer, railroad executive, and philanthropist, of Cleveland, Ohio. Henry K. Devereux was an engineer, real estate agent, industrialist, philanthropist, and harness-horse fancier, of Cleveland. The collection consists of correspondence, diaries, business, financial, and legal documents, genealogical data, ship's logs, newspaper clippings, scrapbooks, and other papers, of John Devereux, John H. Devereux, and Henry K. Devereux. Bulk of the collection relates to railroad construction and John H. Devereux's career with several railroads. Includes records (1895-1916) of the Gentlemen's Driving Club, and material relating to Henry K. Devereux's interest in trotting horses and harness racing and his activities as an official of several businesses. The collection also documents the role played by the railroad for the Union during the American Civil War. | | | | Call #: | MS 2415 | | | | Extent: | 25.0 linear feet (54 containers and 28 oversize volumes) | | | | Subjects: | Devereux family. | Logbooks. | Ship's papers. | Railroads -- United States -- Construction. | Railroads -- United States -- Management. | Railroad companies -- United States. | Harness racing -- United States. | Harness racehorses -- United States. | Horse-racing -- United States. | Horses -- United States -- Breeding. | Race horses -- United States. | United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Sources.
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| Manuscript Collection | Requires cookie* | | 4 | Title: | Raymond F. Blosser Papers, Series II
| | | | Creator: | Blosser, Raymond F. | | | | Dates: | 1918-1988 | | | | Abstract: | Raymond F. Blosser was a staff writer/editor and, eventually, bureau chief for the Associated Press in Cleveland, Ohio, from 1935-1943. In his spare time beginning in 1938, Blosser conducted interviews and extensive research for a biography of Oris P. and Mantis J. Van Sweringen, developers of the exclusive suburb of Shaker Heights, Ohio and builders of Cleveland's Union Terminal, who amassed huge holdings in railroads during the 1920s. Blosser finished his manuscript in 1946, but it remained unpublished. Blosser was public relations director for the New York Central Railroad until 1956, and vice president in charge of public relations and advertising at Union Commerce Bank in Cleveland from 1956 to 1973. The collection consists of a typescript second draft of Blosser's "Untitled biography of the Van Sweringen brothers of Cleveland," a carbon copy of the same containing additions, comments and corrections by William H. Wenneman, William Barrett and William Wyer (all top officers and aides to the Van Sweringens), miscellaneous correspondence, notes, newspaper clippings pertaining to the biography, and a privately published biography of the Van Sweringens by Louise Davidson Jenks. The collection pertains to the lives of the Van Sweringen brothers, in particular to their business careers and especially in regards to the consolidation of their railroad holdings, with valuable information re: the Nickel Plate Railroad, the Alleghany Corporation and other Van Sweringen-controlled holding companies, as well as the Interstate Commerce Commission hearings on railroads in the 1930s. | | | | Call #: | MS 4543 | | | | Extent: | 0.40 linear feet (1 container) | | | | Subjects: | Blosser, Raymond F., 1913- | Van Sweringen, Oris Paxton, 1879-1936. | Van Sweringen, Mantis James, 1881-1935. | United States. Interstate Commerce Commission. | Alleghany Corporation. | New York, Chicago, and St. Louis Railroad. | Toledo, St. Louis and Western Railroad. | Lake Erie and Western Railroad Company. | Chesapeake and Ohio Railway Company. | Hocking Valley Railway Company. | Pere Marquette Railway. | Missouri Pacific Railroad Company. | Shaker Heights Rapid Transit. | Cleveland Terminals Building Company. | Terminal Tower Complex (Cleveland, Ohio) | Capitalists and financiers -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Biography. | Railroads -- United States -- Consolidation. | Railroads -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- History. | Railroads -- United States -- Management. | Railroad terminals -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Real estate development -- Ohio -- Shaker Heights. | Cleveland (Ohio) -- Biography.
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