Order of Railway Conductors and Brakemen Photographs, 1831-1968
Collection Number: 5148 P
Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation & Archives
Cornell University Library
DESCRIPTIVE SUMMARY
Title:
Order of Railway Conductors and Brakemen Photographs, 1831-1968
Repository:
Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation & Archives
Collection Number:
5148 P
Abstract:
This collection of photographs include photographs taken at Division and Committee
meetings as well as Membership Banquets and Ceremonies. Some of the Divisions represented
in the photographs are: 42, 43, 91, 133, 135, 139, 180, 236, 248, 313, 339, 518, and
647.
Creator:
Quanitities:
2.11 cubic feet
Language:
Collection material in English
The Order of Railway Conductors of America (ORC) was a labor union that represented
train conductors in the United States. It has its origins in the Conductors Union
founded in 1868. Later it extended membership to brakemen. In 1969 the ORC merged
with three other unions to form the United Transportation Union.[wikipedia.org/wiki/Order_of_Railway_Conductors]
This collection of photographs include photographs taken at Division and Committee
meetings as well as Membership Banquets and Ceremonies. Some of the Divisions represented
in the photographs are: 42, 43, 91, 133, 135, 139, 180, 236, 248, 313, 339, 518, and
647.
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archivist for access to these materials.
This collection must be used in keeping with the Kheel Center Information Sheet and
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INFORMATION FOR USERS
Order of Railway Conductors and Brakemen Photographs #5148 P. Kheel Center for Labor-Management
Documentation and Archives, Cornell University Library.
Related Collections: 5148: Order of Railway Conductors and Brakemen Records 5148 MB: Order of Railway Conductors and Brakemen Memorabilia 5754: Order of Railway Conductors and Brakemen and Seaboard Airline Railroad Company
General Committee of Adjustment Files 6289: Order of Railway Conductors Division 642 Records
Names:
Order of Railway Conductors and Brakemen
CONTAINER LIST
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Container
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Description
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Date
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| Box 1 | Folder 1 |
Association of General Chairmen- includes: officers in Chicago, Ill 1953, and GTW
group picture.
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| Box 1 | Folder 2 |
CAMA Meeting
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1950 |
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Scope and Contents
August 1950 (Pittsburgh)
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| Box 1 | Folder 3 |
Camp Claiborne, LA
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| Box 1 | Folder 4 |
Cheyenne Meeting
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| Box 1 | Folder 5 |
Christiansen, C. F.
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| Box 1 | Folder 6 |
Committee of Grievances and Appeals
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| Box 1 | Folder 7 |
Committee on Officer Reports
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| Box 1 | Folder 8 |
Conductors
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| Box 1 | Folder 9 |
Congressional Candidates
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| Box 1 | Folder 10 |
Delegations
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Scope and Contents
includes: Rock Island; Florida; Southern Railway; Eastern; Seaboard Airline Railroad;
Canadian; and Texas
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| Box 1 | Folder 11 |
Division 42, Entertainment Committee
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1941 |
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Scope and Contents
31-May-41
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| Box 1 | Folder 12 |
Division 43 Special Grand Division
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1946 |
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Scope and Contents
September 2, 1946- includes: Transportation Committee; Committee on Officers Reports;
Local Housing Committee; Codifying Committee; Special Caucus Committee; Jurisprudence
Committee.
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| Box 1 | Folder 13 |
Division 91, Portland, Oregon
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| Box 1 | Folder 14 |
Division 133
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| Box 1 | Folder 15 |
Division 135
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| Box 1 | Folder 16 |
Division 139
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| Box 1 | Folder 17 |
Division 180, Atlanta, Georgia
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| Box 1 | Folder 18 |
Division 236
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| Box 1 | Folder 19 |
Division 248, Sheffield, Alabama
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| Box 1 | Folder 20 |
Division 313, Tucson, Arizona
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| Box 1 | Folder 21 |
Division 339
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| Box 1 | Folder 22 |
Division 518
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| Box 1 | Folder 23 |
Division 647
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| Box 1 | Folder 24 |
Emergency Board #154, Washington, DC
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1963 |
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Scope and Contents
11-Apr-63
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| Box 1 | Folder 25 |
Event In Ballroom
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| Box 1 | Folder 26 |
Fifth Sunday Meeting, Macon, GA
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1953 |
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Scope and Contents
29-Mar-53
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| Box 1 | Folder 27 |
Field Representatives
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1949 |
| Box 1 | Folder 28 |
45th Grand Division
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| Box 1 | Folder 29 |
Fraser, Harry Wilson, President
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| Box 1 | Folder 30 |
General Committees
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1957 |
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Scope and Contents
includes: General Committee of Adjustments, Delaware & Hudson Railroad; Great Northern
General Committee, St Paul; B & O General Committee, April 1957; L & N General Committee,
May 1957.
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| Box 1 | Folder 31 |
General Secretary- Treasurers-includes: W. J Maxwell;
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| Box 1 | Folder 32 |
C. H Anderson; J. H. Rodgers, Cedar Rapids; G. H Oram.
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| Box 1 | Folder 33 |
Grand Chief Conductors (1800s)
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1869-1890 |
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Scope and Contents
includes: Calvin S. Wheaton, Elmira, NY Div. 9, October 1880 to July 1890; Alfred
G. Black, Crestline, Ohio, Div. No. 8, October 1869 to August 23, 1870.
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| Box 1 | Folder 34 |
Grand Division, group photo (names are on photo)
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1885 |
| Box 1 | Folder 35 |
Hobart, (BLE) Assistant Secretary of Labor
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| Box 1 | Folder 36 |
Hughes and Ives, J.L. D
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| Box 1 | Folder 37 |
Insurance Commissioners- John A. Scott, Grant Sonders, W. D. Johnson
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1931 |
| Box 1 | Folder 38 |
International
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| Box 1 | Folder 39 |
Leaders in Oregon
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| Box 1 | Folder 40 |
Lechner, George
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| Box 1 | Folder 41 |
Local Committees
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| Box 1 | Folder 42 |
Meeting (President G. H. Harris, A. G. Wise, G. Cox, and others present)
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| Box 1 | Folder 43 |
Membership Banquets and Ceremonies
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Scope and Contents
includes: Montreal banquet; Chicago Pullman Banquet; Knoxville Div. No 139; merit
certificates to 4 retired Southern Railway conductors
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| Box 1 | Folder 44 |
Men
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| Box 1 | Folder 45 |
Milwaukee Railroad Lines East (Mr. Hughes and Mr. Kenney in photo)
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| Box 1 | Folder 46 |
Miscellaneous
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| Box 1 | Folder 47 |
Missouri Pacific Gold Spike
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1957 |
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Scope and Contents
Jul-57
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| Box 1 | Folder 48 |
Mo Pac
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1949 |
| Box 2 | Folder 34 |
ORC & B Convention
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| Box 2 | Folder 1 |
Niesze, Chief Clerk (with Peg Oram and J. H. Rodgers)
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| Box 2 | Folder 2 |
Officers
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1953 |
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Scope and Contents
includes Joint Associations, June 1953; Henry R. Nelson; C. A. Watson (Vice President),
W. G. Baker (Canadian Vice President) Jake R. Wilson( Chairman, Grand Trustee). W.
H. Jeffries (Grand Trustee), J. A. Bryant (Grand Trustee), Rudolph Froehlich (Grand
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| Box 2 | Folder 3 |
ORC Home, Savannah, Georgia
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1929-1932 |
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Scope and Contents
Christmas Day 1929 and Visitors, 1932.
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| Box 2 | Folder 4 |
ORC & B 100th Anniversary Banquet combined with 50th year celebration of CBAMA Chicago,
Illinois
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1968 |
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Scope and Contents
14-Jun-68
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| Box 2 | Folder 5 |
ORC & B Association of General Committees President Harris with chairmen of Eastern
West & Southeastern Districts of ORCB, Ross Keller, SE; John Wolf, Eastern; J W Kennedy,
Western
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| Box 2 | Folder 6 |
ORC & B Centennials
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1968 |
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Scope and Contents
includes retirement dinner, centennial pageant at Sacramento to commemorate Southern
Pacific's Western lines; 100th Anniversary Special on ICRR from Freeport, Illinois
to Amboy, with an ICRR Depot dedication of marker, June 14- June 15, 1968
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| Box 2 | Folder 7 |
Oram, G. H., General Secretary- Treasurer
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| Box 2 | Folder 8 |
Order of Railway Conductors
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1948 |
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Scope and Contents
includes: ORC Building, 1948 and Railway Labor Building.
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| Box 2 | Folder 9 |
Perkins, Robert, Editor- ORCB
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| Box 2 | Folder 10 |
Political Candidates
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Scope and Contents
includes: P. H. Tubin Williams, Texas State Legislative Representative; Congressman
James E. Van Zandt, Pennsylvania.
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| Box 2 | Folder 11 |
Port Richmond, PA
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Scope and Contents
general view of the world's largest privately owned tidewater terminal, and a photo
of the Coal Dumps with capabilities of dumping forty cars per hour.
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| Box 2 | Folder 12 |
Presidents
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Scope and Contents
includes: Fraser, G. H. Harris; Edward Patrick Curtis, Smithville, TX, Phillips; James
Andrew Phillips; R O Hughes; Garretson;
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| Box 2 | Folder 13 |
Pullman Meeting- Pullman General Committee
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1953 |
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Scope and Contents
2/5/53.
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| Box 2 | Folder 14 |
Railroad Workers
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1917-1918 |
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Scope and Contents
includes: Brakemen from Santa Fe RR Chillicothe, Ill, 1918; workers on local run between
Streator and Pekin Ill. over the Toledo Peoria & Western, 1918; workers on Chicago
& Northwestern RR, 1917.
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| Box 2 | Folder 15 |
Rives
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| Box 2 | Folder 16 |
ROE, with Brown and Lundborg
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1953 |
| Box 2 | Folder 17 |
San Antonio Group
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| Box 2 | Folder 18 |
Scott, John (Wagner)
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| Box 2 | Folder 19 |
Sleeping Car Conductors Officers
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1944 |
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Scope and Contents
(January 26, 1944): A. G. wise, Executive V-P; J L D Ives, V-P; R. R. Nicholas, V-P;
M. H. Barney, V-P; B. C. Johnson, V-P; R. O Hughes, V-P; J. R. Kelly. Trustee; J.
F. Casey, Trustee; J. A. Scott, Chairman, Trustees; J. H Rodgers, V-P; H. Fraser,
Presid
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| Box 2 | Folder 20 |
Southern Pacific Group
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| Box 2 | Folder 21 |
Ten Man Club
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1954 |
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Scope and Contents
includes: Milner, B. C. Johnson, G. Redrup, Downing, J. H. Irwin, P. J. Hilton, F.
E. Renville, April 1954; Finkenburger, B. C. Johnson, C. H. Anderson, T. G. Burke,
L. S. Smith, Frank Freeburg, J. F. Byrne, John Willman, K. C. McLane, Roy Hirscheimer,
H.
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| Box 2 | Folder 22 |
Texas Joint Railway Labor Legislative Board
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Scope and Contents
B. R. Cowan, (BRT Chairman), W. M. York (ORT Vice- Chairman); P. H. Tobin Williams
(ORCB Sec.) E. F. Jergens (BLFE Treas.); C. F. Majors (BRS); H. O. Paul (BLE); R.
R. Wheatley (BRO); Tom G. Hawkes (BMWE) and Clyde E. Johnson (Joint Board Public Relations
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| Box 2 | Folder 23 |
Trains
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1831-1961 |
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Scope and Contents
includes: Chicago Rail Fair, September 5, 1949; Engine 22, O & C RR; postcards of
the Pennsylvania # 8218, 4/5/53 and Pennsylvania #4191, 11/12/58; First steam on the
NYC 1831; postcard of the train wreck of train 7, Trout Lake, August 7, 1912 (x 4);
Nove
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| Box 2 | Folder 24 |
Trustees
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1934-1941 |
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Scope and Contents
George H. Harris, Grand; Lee F. Dover, Grand; J. R. Kelley; Grand Division; J. A.
Bryant, Grand; W. H. Jeffries, Grand, Jake R Williams, Chairman trustees; J. A. Scott,
Grand Division; Wilson; J. F. Casey, Grand Div.; Henry Zimmerman, Grand, July 31,
1934
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| Box 2 | Folder 25 |
Vice Presidents
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Scope and Contents
R. R. Nicholas; John F. Casey, Sr. V-P; James A. Paddock, Sr. V-P; W. D. Johnson,
V-P and Nat'l Legislative Rep.; K. Hinks; Gannnou; Harry Fraser, Sr. V-P; Thomas A.
Gregg; F. J. Williams; R. O. Hughes; B. C. Johnson; George W. Lange; A. W. Hair; J.
E. Ma
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| Box 2 | Folder 26 |
Wage Negotiations- Chicago, Ill.
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1941 |
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Scope and Contents
9/1/1941; A. [Alvanley] Johnston, Grand Chief Engineer, BLE; Carl Goff, Asst President
BLFE; H. W. Fraser, President ORC; A. F. Whitney, President, BRT, and T. C. Cashen,
President, SUNA.
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| Box 2 | Folder 27 |
Washington, D. C. Office- W. D. Johnson & secretary; unidentified group of 4 men including
Johnson.
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| Box 2 | Folder 28 |
White House Conference
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1951 |
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Scope and Contents
Feb-51
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| Box 2 | Folder 29 |
Whitney, General Secretary and Treasurer
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| Box 2 | Folder 30 |
Wise, A. G. Executive Vice President Sleeping Car Conductors
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| Box 2 | Folder 31 |
Women
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1957 |
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Scope and Contents
includes: General & Women's Group, B & O, Comm. Mtg. 1957, Hilton-Reicha-Hair; Mrs.
Hazel Hand, President of the Ladies' Auxiliary; Mrs. M Rohm, secretary to Rochik;
Peg Oram, Annabel Kurtz, Edith Stuart, Hazel Grady. Chas Winters; Nellie E. Douglas,
Pres
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| Box 2 | Folder 32 |
Workers- R W Rosenwinge, Fireman- Helper and G W Smith, Engineer Freeport, Ill.
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1968 |
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Scope and Contents
6/15/68.
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| Box 2 | Folder 33 |
Oswego Harbor, with sailing vessels and bridges, Buffalo Creek Railroad Co.
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1870 |
| Box 4 | Folder 1 |
Oversize photos: 13 photographs sorted out of the 'misc. photos' box stored over the
mapcase
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| Box 3 | Folder 1 |
PA. Lines West - Full General Comm. - Jan 27, 1959
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1959 |
| Box 5OP |
District Meeting - O.R.C. - New England Hotel Manger - June 2, 1935 ; O.R.C. of America
- Hist Grand Division, Toronto, Canada, May 1934
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| Box 5OP | Folder 1 |
panoramic photos - District Meeting - O.R.C. - New England Hotel Manger - June 2,
1935 ; O.R.C. of America - Hist Grand Division, Toronto, Canada, May 1934
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1934-1935 |
| Box 6 |
Images digitized from the collection.
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