Railroads -- Massachusetts
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
Massachusetts railroads collection
Collection
Call Number: MS 971
Abstract:
Correspondence, financial and legal documents, maps, schedules, and newspaper clippings from the records of various Massachusetts railroads eventually incorporated by lease or merger into the Boston and Maine Railroad or the New York Central Railroad.
Dates:
1822-1909
Old Colony & Fall River Railroad company records
Collection
Call Number: MS 378
Abstract:
The records date largely from the merger period and include correspondence, reports, financial and legal papers, diagrams relating to the railroads and miscellaneous printed matter such as passes, tickets and clippings. Included in the correspondence are several family letters of Alexander Holmes, president of the company. Other correspondents are Julia Ward Howe, George Stillman Hillard and Samuel Hill. Of the two account books, one lists the shareholders and the other tabulates revenues...
Dates:
1836-1893