Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen Honorary Register of Disabled
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Scope and Contents
Grand Lodge, BLFE, "Honorary Register of Disabled", recorded chronologically, includes 1) name, 2) lodge, 3) date of disability, 4) cause, and 5) remarks; also, an alphabetical index of names with a page reference.
Dates
- 1879-1904
Creator
- Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen (creator, Organization)
Language of Materials
Collection material in English
Conditions Governing Access
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Conditions Governing Use
This collection must be used in keeping with the Kheel Center Information Sheet and Procedures for Document Use.
Biographical / Historical
The jurisdiction of the Brotherhood encompassed the contracts covering the employment of engineers, firemen, hostlers, and hostler-helpers.
The Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Enginement (BLFE) was founded in 1873 at Port Jervis, N.Y. by Joshua Leach and ten Erie Railroad firemen. Founded as the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen, the name was changed in 1906 to include Enginemen. The Brotherhood's International Headquarters, designated as the Grand Lodge, was located in Cleveland.
Extent
0.25 cubic feet
Abstract
Grand Lodge, BLFE, "Honorary Register of Disabled", recorded chronologically, includes 1) name, 2) lodge, 3) date of disability, 4) cause, and 5) remarks; also, an alphabetical index of names with a page reference.
Quantity:
0.2 linear ft.
Forms of Material:
Registers (lists) .
General
- Contact Information:
- Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation and Archives 227 Ives Hall Tower Road Cornell University Ithaca, NY 14853 (607) 255-3183 kheelref@cornell.edu https://catherwood.library.cornell.edu/kheel/
- Compiled by:
- Kheel Staff, June 18, 2013
- EAD encoding:
- Kheel Staff, March 21, 2019
- Emerson, Harrington, 1853-1931
- Locomotive engineers
- Locomotive engineers -- United States -- Registers
- Locomotive firemen
- Locomotive firemen -- United States -- Registers
- Pensions -- Railroads -- United States
- People with disabilities -- United States -- Registers
- Railroads -- Accidents -- United States
- Railroads -- Employees
- Railroads -- Employees -- Labor unions -- United States
- Railroads -- United States -- Employees -- Registers
- Title
- Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen Honorary Register of Disabled
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Compiled by Kheel Staff
- Date
- March 21, 2019
- Language of description
- Undetermined
- Script of description
- Code for undetermined script
Revision Statements
- 02/23/2024: This resource was modified by the ArchivesSpace Preprocessor developed by the Harvard Library (https://github.com/harvard-library/archivesspace-preprocessor)
Repository Details
Part of the Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation & Archives Repository