Date Range: 1800s-1900s
Company Name: Pennsylvania Railroad Co.Related Companies: Philadelphia, Baltimore & Washington Railroad Co. ; Northern Central Railroad Co. ; West Jersey & Seashore Railroad Co. ; Pennsylvania Steel Co. ; Westinghouse Church Kerr & Co., Engineers
Place: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
Topic (Romaine Term): Business services (advertising; marketing; organizational management; etc.)Ceramics; pottery; glass; crystal; china; bricks; and stonesEducational institutions; equipment and supplies (includes playground equipment)Electrical apparatus and equipmentEngineering consultants and contractorsEngines and motors: steam; oil; gas; etc.Farm equipment and supplies (including dairy and poultry equipment)Foundries; supplies and equipmentFuel (includes oil; petroleum; gas; coal; etc.)Furnaces and boilersIron and steel products (castings; sheet steel; steel wire; wire rope; pig iron and structural steel products )Luggage; travel; travel services and traveling accessories (including trunks; briefcases; and other traveling accessories)Materials handling equipment (includes barrels; bottling and filling; casters; chains; etc.)Railroad; streetcar; subway and tramway equipment and suppliesTopic: "Schools -- Furniture, equipment, etc."AdvertisingBarrelsBoilersBottlingBriefcasesBusinessCeramicsCoalCommerceConsulting engineersDairyingElectric apparatus and appliancesEngineersEnginesFarm equipmentFoundriesFuelFurnacesGlassIndustrial equipmentIron industry and tradeLuggageMarketingMotorsPetroleum
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Location: Trade Literature at the American History Museum LibraryCollection: Smithsonian Libraries Trade Literature Collections
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Record Id: SILNMAHTL_30164
Type Of Material: Trade catalogsTrade literature
Notes Content: UNIQUE set of railroad trade literature ; 1847-1877 annual reports ; late 19th Century leisure travel books, tour announcements and schedules (3-week Golden Gate tour of California, 1890 ; 1887 Summer excursion routes to New England, the Catskills, the Adirondaks, New Jersey Shore, Quebec, Niagara Falls, Saratoga Springs, NY, Bar Harbor and Mt. Desert Island, ME, Ashville, NC, Mackinac Island, MI, Newport, RI, Fire Island, NY ; 1892 tour book for Florida illustrated with photographs) ; 1916 company history entitled "Seventy Years of America's Greatest Railroad" ; 1908 schedule with map of the line to Atlantic City, NJ ; 1899 manual for employees of the company's Signal Department ; circa 1913 company pamphlets (subjects range from resuscitation from electric shock to elementary principles of electricity) ; 1929 pamphlet on container car service ; bound set of 1915 leaflets (directed to employees and to the public) on issues of efficiency and safety (including "Making Automobile Drivers Believe in Signs") ; 1916 company history entitled "Seventy Years of America's Greatest Railroad: The Pennsylvania 1846-1916" ; 1946 safety manual ; illustrated 1949 brochure for Pullman sleeping car train called "the General" that ran between New York and Chicago in 16 hours ; circa 1880 map showing alignment of original railroads in Philadelphia, PA, now included as part of the Pennsylvania Railroad System ; 1916 booklet with description of PRR System's "Main lines and branches with notes of the historical events which have taken place in the contiguous territories" ; 1946 annual report including beautiful color illustrations of company's 100th anniversary ; 1890 record of transportation lines operated by PRR ; 1927 pamphlet about the PRR 6000 freight weighing machines (scales) ; 1930 newsletter about development of industry (warehouses, glass) and agriculture (dairy, potatoes, corn) along route of PRR ; 1926 brochure entitled "Modern Cars and locomotives" ; company's Book of Rules (1941, 1943, 1947, 1948) ; 1916 and 1940s instructions regarding signaling apparatus ; 1930 history of Allegheney Portage Railroad ; booklet about grain elevators at ports (1930) ; 1904 booklet about Passenger Car Ventilation Systems ; January 1908 book illustrated with photographs entitled "The New York Passenger Terminal of the Pennsylvania Railroad (Under Construction)", later called Pennsylvania Station ; 1860 booklet entitled "Report of Experiments with Coal-Burning Locomotives made on the Pennsylvania Railroad April-August 1859" ; 1872 illustrated technical pamphlet showing standard steel rail sections made by Pennsylvania Steel Co. for Pennsylvania RailroadIncludes: Trade catalog, manual and historiesBlack and white imagesColor imagesPhysical Description: 52 pieces; 12 boxes
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Record Id: SILNMAHTL_30164