Lehigh Valley Railroad Company records

Collection — Multiple Containers

Identifier: 3362

COLLECTION DESCRIPTION

Financial records, reports, schedules, blueprints, and other records of railway lines in central and western New York State.

Collection includes financial records (bank books, cancelled checks, check stubs, account book, assessments), reports, indentures, mortgage, tickets, schedules, newspaper clippings, blueprints, and two broadsides concerning the organization, consolidation, finance, and other business matters pertaining to the Lehigh Valley Railway; Lehigh Valley Railroad; Waverly and State Line Railway; Geneva, Ithaca and Sayre Railroad; Elmira, Cortland and Northern Railroad; Geneva and Van Ettenville Railroad; Ithaca and Athens Railroad; Geneva and Sayre Railroad; Hayts Corners, Ovid and Willard Railroad; New York, Ontario and Western Railway; Buffalo and Geneva Railway; and the New York Railroad. Also, letter files from J.F. Powers and F.E. Erdman in the Division Freight Office, Geneva, N.Y., ca. 1925-1931; locomotive log book, Manchester, N.Y., 1959; blueprints of railroad crossings used for tax assessment; ledger of Lehigh Valley-owned structures; and ledger of special franchise maps.

Dates

1870-1962.

Creator

Lehigh Valley Railroad Company (Organization)

Language of Materials

Collection material in English

Extent

6 cubic feet. (6 cubic feet.)

Additional Description

Abstract

Financial records, reports, schedules, blueprints, and other records of railway lines in central and western New York State.

Physical Description

Financial records, reports, schedules and blueprints.

General

Contact Information:: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections 2B Carl A. Kroch Library Cornell University Ithaca, NY 14853 (607) 255-3530 Fax: (607) 255-9524 rareref@cornell.edu http://rmc.library.cornell.edu
Compiled by:: M. E. Warren
Date completed:: October 1988
EAD encoding:: Finding aid encoded by Peter Martinez, April 2006
Date modified:: RMC Staff, December 2013