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Louisville and Nashville Railroad Company

 Organization

Found in 28 Collections and/or Records:

A.L.M. Wiggins railroad collection

 Unprocessed Material
Identifier: 1973_506-UA
Dates: 1833-1973; Majority of material found within 1948-1973
Found in: University of Louisville Archives and Special Collections

Charles Castner railroad photographs

 Unprocessed Material — Box 1
Identifier: 2021_188
Dates: 1931-1982
Found in: University of Louisville Archives and Special Collections

Earlington Yard train photograph

 Unprocessed Material — Folder 1
Identifier: 2015_025-PA
Dates: 11 March 1905
Found in: University of Louisville Archives and Special Collections

John B. Fravert railroad collection

 Collection
Identifier: 2005_111-UA
Summary These materials date from 1851 to 1979, and consist of records relating to railroads. The bulk of these materials are from either the Louisville and Nashville (L&N) or the Nashville, Chattanooga and St. Louis (NC&StL) Railroads. This collection includes information on locomotives such as specification cards, tonnage tests, and train registers; employee-related information such as seniority lists and directories; company-related information such as correspondence; and passenger...
Dates: 1851-1979
Found in: University of Louisville Archives and Special Collections / John B. Fravert railroad collection

Ernie Gibson rail and trolley collection

 Collection
Identifier: 2008_004-UA
Summary

Includes books, clippings, logs, schedules, and other materials relating to railroads and public transit (particularly street/electric rail), primarily from the 20th century. Much of the material relates to the Louisville and Nashville Railroad Company, but other companies (and regions of the country) are represented as well. Boxes three and four consist of books.

Dates: 1872-1988
Found in: University of Louisville Archives and Special Collections / Ernie Gibson rail and trolley collection

Scott Glenn Louisville and Nashville Railroad Company reference files

 Collection
Identifier: 2011_134-UA
Content Description

Photograph and biographical sketch of L&N president John E. Tilford with two track maps of Nashville, Tennessee and map of L&N and ACL lines between Birmingham and Talladega, Alabama.

Dates: circa 1950s
Found in: University of Louisville Archives and Special Collections / Scott Glenn Louisville and Nashville Railroad Company reference files

Graham family L&N photographs and correspondence

 Unprocessed Material — Box Small collections box 5, Folder: 1
Identifier: 2022_045
Dates: 1967-1968
Found in: University of Louisville Archives and Special Collections

Samuel A. Griffin memoirs

 Collection — Box 1
Identifier: 1981_039-UA
Content Description

This is a typescript autobiography by Griffin written in two parts: A Country Boy, and My Fifty Year Service with the Louisville & Nashville Railroad Company (1910-1960), also named Working on the Railroad.

Dates: 1971
Found in: University of Louisville Archives and Special Collections / Samuel A. Griffin memoirs

Howard C. Griswold papers

 Collection
Identifier: 1979_187-UA
Summary The Howard Clifton Griswold papers consists of two major components: material relating directly to Griswold himself, and material relating to his brother-in-law, Henry Clay Bretney. The first series includes printed materials from work-related subjects as well as memorabilia, oversized materials and a few items from his years as chief of the John P. Morton and Company. There is also printed material from the American Society of Civil Engineers, the American Iron and Steel Institute, and the...
Dates: 1889-1931
Found in: University of Louisville Archives and Special Collections / Howard C. Griswold papers

William L. Grubbs Louisville & Nashville Railroad collection

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 2007_057-UA
Scope and Contents

Includes publications, reports, and articles collected by William Grubbs during his tenure at the Louisville and Nashville Railroad. Most of these materials relate to the L&N Railroad.

Dates: 1869-1975
Found in: University of Louisville Archives and Special Collections / William L. Grubbs Louisville & Nashville Railroad collection

Additional filters:

Type
Collection 16
Unprocessed Material 12
 
Subject
Railroads 11
Louisville and Nashville Railroad Company -- Employees 3
Glass negatives 2
Louisville (Ky.) -- History 2
Municipal government -- Kentucky -- Louisville 2
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Neighborhoods -- Kentucky -- Louisville -- History 2
Railroad companies 2
Railroads -- Employees 2
Railroads -- Finance 2
Railroads -- Management 2
Railroads -- Periodicals 2
Baptists -- Kentucky -- Louisville 1
Business 1
Cameras 1
Country Life 1
Dakota Territory -- History 1
Earlington (Ky.) 1
Film negatives 1
Gelatin silver prints 1
Highland Park (Louisville, Ky.) 1
Labor disputes -- Kentucky -- Louisville 1
Locomotives 1
Louisville (Ky.) -- Photographs 1
Louisville (Ky.) -- Race relations 1
Medicine -- Kentucky -- Louisville 1
Music 1
New York (N.Y.) 1
Photographs 1
Postal service -- Employees 1
Public schools -- Kentucky -- Louisville 1
Railroad cabooses 1
Railroad companies -- History -- Sources 1
Railroad engineering 1
Railroads -- Abandonment 1
Railroads -- History 1
Railroads -- Kentucky -- Louisville 1
Railroads -- Maps 1
Rural children -- Tennessee 1
School boards -- Kentucky -- Louisville 1
Shakers 1
Steel industry and trade 1
Street-railroads 1
Timetables 1
University of Louisville -- Buildings 1
University of Louisville -- Planning 1
Whiskey 1
Women -- Education -- Kentucky -- Louisville 1
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