Order of Railway Conductors Home (Savannah, GA) Papers
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Scope and Contents
Inclusive date range: 1930 - 2008
Bulk dates: 1930, 2008
This collection is comprised of documents about the retirement home for the Order of Railway Conductors. There are two print-outs from websites which contain brief historical sketches of the Outland Island building that housed the retirement home from 1927 - 1940. The pages were printed in June 2008.The collection also contains photocopies of John H. Strickland's application to the retirement home and notice of his acceptantance into the ORC home in 1930.
Dates
- 1930-2008
Language of Materials
Collection material in English
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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 Order of Railway Conductors and Brakemen (ORC & B) was founded in 1868 as an order of railroad conductors and later expanded to include brakemen.
The Order of Railway Conductors and Brakemen was founded by T.J. "Tommie" Wright in 1868 in Amboy, Ill. as the Conductors Union. The name was changed to Order of Railway Conductors of America (ORC) in 1878. In 1942, the Order of Sleeping Car Conductors merged with ORC. The union's name was changed in 1954 to the Order of Railway Conductors and Brakemen. In 1969, the Order merged with the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen, Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen, and Switchmen's Union of North America to form the United Transportation Union.
In 1927, the ORC opened a retirement home for its "aging and infirm" members on Oatland island, located five miles from Savannah, Georgia. The facility stopped being used by the ORC in 1940. At the time of this writing, it houses the Oatland Island Wildlife Center.
Extent
1 folders
Abstract
Information on the historic building on Oatland Island, Savannah, Georgia that housed the retirement home for members of the Order of Railway Conductors from 1927 to 1940 and records that document applying to live in the retirement home.
Quantity:
1 file folder.
Forms of Material:
Records (documents).
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:
- E. Parker, December 23, 2016
- EAD encoding:
- Kheel Staff, March 09, 2017
Processing Information
Application to and Acceptance of Application to ORC Home documents are photocopies of original documents.
- Title
- Order of Railway Conductors Home (Savannah, GA) Papers
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Compiled by Kheel Staff
- Date
- March 09, 2017
- Language of description
- Undetermined
- Script of description
- Code for undetermined script
- Sponsor
- This collection was processed with the help of generous funding from the National Historical Publications and Records Commission (NHPRC).
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