Transportation

Scope and Contents: Records of predecessor firms include records, 1868-1899, of the Washburn and Moen Manufacturing Company, Worcester, Mass., comprising about half of the total collection. The material on this company includes stock certificate stubs, stock ledger, directors' records, 1868-1886, bill books, letter books, 1890-1902, miscellaneous volumes and three boxes of folders. There is considerable material on the patent suits of the 1880's and 1890's, and the consolidation of the company into one of the...

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Bill books showing goods carried, where loaded and landed, weight, miles, rate per ton, and amount. Coal was frequently carried. There are some gaps in the sequence.

Scope and Contents: Ledger, journals, cash books, voucher and check registers. The company incorporated in 1912 in Maine, operated a number of ships successfully (some of them through the Crowell and Thurlow Intercoastal Company) through World War I. An unlucky investment in the Atlantic Coast Company (which Crowell and Thurlow took over in 1923) resulted in the company going into receivership in 1924. Most of the unbound papers relate to the affairs of the receivership under Paul J. Bertelsen, receiver, and...

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The collection contains two volumes related to John P. Welch's work as a lawyer. Volume 1 contains names, certificates and numbers of shares probably purchased by clients of Welch or of Sohier and Welch, a law firm in Boston, Mass. The shares are for stock in the Fitchburg Railroad, of which Welch was the clerk. Volume 2 is a private letterbook that contains correspondence to Samuel M. Felton, who was the construction engineer of the Fitchburg Railroad, as well as other railroads.

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The collection contains administrative records of the investment banking firm Lehman Brothers and of Kuhn, Loeb & Company, another firm that merged with Lehman in 1977. Also includes the papers of numerous Lehman Brothers and Kuhn, Loeb & Company executives and their families.

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Correspondence, rosters, photographs, etc., of Beatrice Sadowsky, transportation executive.

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Congressional papers of Elizabeth Holtzman, who represented New York's 16th Congressional district from 1973 to 1980.

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Collection consists of zines, underground periodicals, and do-it-yourself one-offs, the vast majority of them American, and related materials.