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     MANUSCRIPTS and ARCHIVAL MATERIAL

Railroads -- History

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:

Inventory of the Papers of Gordon M. Buck

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-88-2
Dates: Majority of material found within 1910 - 1940; 1881 - 1956

W. Jett Lauck papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 4742
Scope and Contents The W. Jett Lauck collection consists of his professional, business and personal papers as an economist, statistician and government consultant on immigration, banking, railroads, coal, and unemployment problems as well as other facets of labor in the United States. Included are correspondence, scrapbooks of news clippings reflecting his activities, labor reports and studies, drafts of congressional bills, legal briefs, and other material concerning labor problems in the United States from...
Dates: circa 1900-1952

Railway mortgage certificates

 Item — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 16408
Scope and Contents Note The Railway mortgage certificates (1880-1937; 0.3 cubic feet) consist of two bound sets of railway mortgage documents. One set comprises a stack of $1000 mortgage certificate sheets for the Alabama Central Railroad, payable 1918. The second set comprises a stack of $1000 mortgage certificate sheets for the Oxford and Clarksville Railroad Company, payable November 1937. The latter includes agreements by the Richmond and Danville Railroad Company to pay the mortgage if Oxford and Clarksville...
Dates: circa 1880s-1937