William Reed Gordon transportation records, 1872-1966,-1891-1911 (bulk)
Collection Number: 2484
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Cornell University Library
DESCRIPTIVE SUMMARY
Title:
William Reed Gordon transportation records, 1872-1966,-1891-1911 (bulk)
Repository:
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Collection Number:
2484
Abstract:
Primarily letter impression books, loose correspondence, orders, bills, receipts,
accounts, time-books, insurance policies, broadsides, photographs of the Ithaca Railway
Company; correspondence of general managers directed to equipment manufacturers, and
also concerning construction and rental of an apartment house in Cornell Heights under
railway sponsorship; form letter from the Duplicate Transfer and Rebate Company of
Philadelphis offering to furnish industrial spies; release and decision in a damage
case, Bolster v. the Ithaca Street Railway Company, inventory of rolling stock; also,
photographs, timetables, and printed items concerning other upstate New York railroads,
and steamboats on Cayuga Lake.
Creator:
Gordon, William Reed, 1899-
Quanitities:
1.2 cubic feet.
Language:
Collection material in English
Primarily letter impression books (3 v., 1891-95, 1896-97, 1906-10), loose correspondence
(1906), orders, bills, receipts, accounts, time-books (2 v., 1903-06), insurance policies,
broadsides, photographs of the Ithaca Railway Company; correspondence of general managers
directed to equipment manufacturers, and also concerning construction and rental of
an apartment house in Cornell Heights under railway sponsorship (1906); form letter
(1906) from the Duplicate Transfer and Rebate Company of Philadelphis offering to
furnish industrial spies; release and decision in a damage case, Bolster v. the Ithaca
Street Railway Company (1904), inventory of rolling stock (1912); also, photographs,
timetables, and printed items concerning other upstate New York railroads, and steamboats
on Cayuga Lake.
INFORMATION FOR USERS
William Reed Gordon transportation records, #2484. Division of Rare and Manuscript
Collections, Cornell University Library.
Names:
Duplicate Transfer and Rebate Company
Ithaca Street Railway Company
Subjects:
Transportation -- New York.
Street-railroads -- New York -- Ithaca.
Steamboats -- New York.
Railroads -- New York.
Railroads -- Accidents.
Lake steamers.
Electric railroads.
Business intelligence.
Form and Genre Terms:
Timetables.
Photographs.
Inventories.
Broadsides.
Accounts.
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 |
Correspondence
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1898 |
| Box 1 | Folder 2 |
Correspondence
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July 1906 |
| Box 1 | Folder 3 |
Correspondence
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Aug. 1906 |
| Box 1 | Folder 4 |
Correspondence
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Sept.-Oct. 1906 |
| Box 1 | Folder 5 |
Correspondence
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Nov.-Dec. 1906 |
| Box 1 | Folder 6 |
Correspondence
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n.d. |
| Box 1 | Folder 7 |
Accounts, bills, receipts
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1892 |
| Box 1 | Folder 8 |
Accounts, bills, receipts
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1893 |
| Box 1 | Folder 9 |
Accounts, bills, receipts
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June 1894 |
| Box 1 | Folder 10 |
Accounts, bills, receipts
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July 1894 |
| Box 1 | Folder 11 |
Accounts, bills, receipts
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Aug. 1894 |
| Box 1 | Folder 12 |
Accounts, bills, receipts
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Sept. 1894 |
| Box 1 | Folder 13 |
Accounts, bills, receipts
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Oct.-Dec. 1894 |
| Box 1 | Folder 14 |
Accounts, bills, receipts
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1895-1899 |
| Box 1 | Folder 15 |
Accounts, bills, receipts
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July-Sept. 1901 |
| Box 1 | Folder 16 |
Accounts, bills, receipts
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Oct.-Dec. 1901 |
| Box 1 | Folder 17 |
Accounts, bills, receipts
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1902 |
| Box 1 | Folder 18 |
Accounts, bills, receipts
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1903 |
| Box 1 | Folder 19 |
Accounts, bills, receipts
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1904-1910 |
| Box 1 | Folder 20 |
Bolster v. Ithaca Street Railway Co.
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1904 |
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Scope and Contents
(79 N.Y. Supp. 597) verifax of decision & original of general release signed by Lucy
Bolster
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| Box 1 | Folder 21 |
City Railroad Legislation (dittoed material)
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1913 |
| Box 1 | Folder 22 |
Notes and secondary materials - verifax of movie scenario involving destruction of
Ithaca Street Railway car in plunge over Fall Creek Gorge ( 1916 ); Roster of Rolling
Stock, June 1, 1912 with MSS notes; 1904 receipt accounts list
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1916, 1912, 1904 |
| Box 1 | Folder 23 |
Advertisements for Gordon's books and for Livonia, Avon, Lakeville RR
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| Box 1 | Folder 24 |
Ithaca Street Railway Co. - photographs (1 neg., 2 pos.)
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| Box 1 | Folder 25 |
Misc. railroads: photograph of Central N.Y. Southern RR (Ithaca-Auburn Shortline);
pass for N.Y., Auburn and Lansing RR ( 1910 ); timetable for Ithaca, Auburn and Western
Railway ( 1889 ); timetable for trains through Cortland (Erie, N.Y. Central, N.Y.
and Ohio Midland, and Syracuse, Binghamton and N.Y. Railroads, 1872 ); timetable (verifax)
for L.S. and M. Southern RR (n.d.)
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1910, 1889, 1872 |
| Box 1 | Folder 26 |
Steamboats on Cayuga Lake: 1 photograph of Steamer Frontenac 1907 , typed copy of newspaper clipping (Aug. 9, 1936 ) re: ferry boat "Busy Bee"
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1907, 1936 |
| Box 1 | Folder 27 |
Post card of hotel at Rogues Harbor, South Lansing
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1909 |
| Box 1 | Folder 28 |
BV letterbook [see description of BV, Box 2, #1]
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1891-1895 |
| Box 2 | Volume 1 |
BV letterbook
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1896-1897 |
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Scope and Contents
Carbon copies of letters and telegrams sent by Ithaca Street Railway Co. with index
to these - includes accounts of & letter to Cornell U. (1897) re: change of location
of track near Cascadilla Building
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| Box 2 | Volume 2 |
BV letterbook
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1906-1911 |
| Box 2 | Volume 3 |
BV letterbook
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Nov. 1903-May 1906 |
| Volume 1 |
Oversize volume - timebook
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May 1903-Aug. 1906 | |
| Box 1 |
2 small broadsides
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| Box 1 |
Photocopy of brochure on Lake Cayuga Transportation Co.
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| Box 3 |
4-page mss. list of Cayuga Lake Steam Boats
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| Box 1 |
Photocopies of several receipts on account with Ithaca Street Railway Co., 2 sheets
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June 24, 1897, Dec. 3, 1901 | |
| Box 1 |
List of Traction Books available from Harold E. Cox, Forty Fort, Pa., 1 p.
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June 1, 1974 | |
| Box 1 |
Advertisement for Third Rails, Pantographs & Trolley Poles (Albany Hudson Fast Line) by Gordon, 1 p.
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| Box 1 |
2 post cards of the Bath & Hammondsport R.R. (2 different engines)
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| Box 3 |
Ithaca Street Railway Miscellany - Bills and checks from 1900 (one small folder)
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| Box 3 |
Lehigh Valley Railroad, Rochester Junction Station Photograph (8"x10" print, negative
in Master Negative File #N874)
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1899 | |