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Railroads

 Subject
Subject Source: Library Of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 9 Collections and/or Records:

Alice W. Hood collection

 Collection
Identifier: MS 1318
Abstract

This collection consists of the biographical and genealogical material concerning the Hood family of Maryland. Also included are the personal letters of Alice Watkins Hood, as well as business records and correspondence of her father, John Mifflin Hood, president of the Western Maryland Railroad Company.

Dates: 1873-1951

Artists' Excursion Over the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad photograph collection

 Collection
Identifier: PP 0262
Abstract

This collection contains photographs of Baltimore and Ohio Railroad trains in Cumberland, Elysville, Frederick, Relay, Harpers Ferry, and West Virginia. Also included are group portraits of passengers aboard the train.

Dates: 1857-1859

Furlong-Baldwin papers

 Collection
Identifier: MS 0193
Abstract

The collection consists of letters of Sephonia Furlong Baldwin of Waterbury, Anne Arundel County from son Lewis Warrington Baldwin while employed with the Illinois Central Railroad, 1897-1901. The collection also contains letters from Mrs. Baldwin's husband and friends. Also included is the personal correspondence of Reverend Henry Furlong (1822-1886), from parishioners, family, friends, containing news of events in the Baltimore District of Methodist Episcopal church.

Dates: 1822 - 1901

Garrett papers

 Collection
Identifier: MS 0979
Abstract

The Garrett Papers primarily concern Robert Garrett (1847-1896) and his wife Mary F. Jacobs (1851-1936), spanning 1816 to 1950, although the bulk of material is dated from 1885 to 1896. The collection is comprised of 38 boxes containing an estimated 25,000 items.

Dates: 1816-1950

Nielson-Leary papers

 Collection
Identifier: 2008-001-LIB
Abstract

The Nielson-Leary papers contains correspondence, land and legal papers, family photographs, and printed ephemera collected by Edmund Leary, Baltimore resident and freight clerk of Pennsylvania Railroad, as well as Lydia Nielson, circa 1783-1987.

Dates: 1783 - 1987

Shriver collection

 Collection
Identifier: MS 0750
Abstract

The Shriver collection consists of daybooks, ledgers, cash books, and other accounts of the Shriver family businesses at Union Mills, Carroll County, Maryland (flour milling, saw millings, tanning, stores at Petersburgh and Big Pipe Creek). A majority of the collection is comprised of correspondence between the various members of the Shriver family concerning business and family happenings.

Dates: 1784-1944

Shriver family papers

 Collection
Identifier: MS 0750.1
Abstract

This collection consists primarily of correspondence between the various members of the Shriver family, 1712-1876. The letters reflect land affairs, business topics, and family news.

Dates: 1712-1876

Thomas Swann collection

 Collection
Identifier: MS 1826
Abstract Collection consists of correspondence addressed to Thomas Swann while he was president of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company. Correspondence chiefly written by Swann's associates at the B and O, such as James Cooke and B. H. Latrobe. Also includes financial reports, annual reports, Swann's speeches and Swan's essays. The collection also consists of numerous receipts, bills and business papers. Many papers relating to the account of Elizabeth Gilmor Sherlock with Robert Gilmor....
Dates: 1815-1886

Thomas Swann collection of Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company records

 Collection
Identifier: MS 1826.1
Abstract

This collection contains the business papers of Thomas Swann, President of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company from 1848-1853.

Dates: 1851-1871