Found in 56 Collections and/or Records:
Charles M. Allen railroad collection
Collection
Identifier: 2002_045-UA
Scope and Contents
This 6.25 linear foot collection of railroad material dates from 1913 to 1995 with the bulk of the collection consisting of railroad timetables. There is also a small, but significant number of guides, maps, operating rules, pamphlets and brochures, annual reports, railroad histories, yearbooks, and photographs. Although most of the collection is from North American railroads, there is some material related to railroading in Europe. The collection is arranged in seven series: I: Timetables...
Dates:
1913-1995
A.L.M. Wiggins railroad collection
Accession
Identifier: 1973_506-UA
Dates:
1833-1973; Majority of material found within 1948-1973
American Car and Foundry photographs
Accession
Identifier: 1996_008-PA
A brief: on the route of Thomas Lincoln through Indiana to Lincoln City
Collection — Box 1
Identifier: 1978_156-UA
Content Description
Carbon copy of a brief (93 pages in length) describing the route Thomas Lincoln, the father of Abraham Lincoln, sixteenth U.S. president, took through Indiana. The brief was written by Thomas S. Jones for the Corydon, Indiana Lincoln Highway Association; The association wished to build or rename a highway in honor of Lincoln.
Dates:
1935
Charles Castner railroad periodicals collection
Accession — Box 1
Identifier: 2014_002-UA
Dates:
1998-2007
Charles Castner regional history collection
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: RG_251-UA
Scope and Contents
During the early 1960s, Charles Castner produced a public affairs series called "Kentucky Profiles" for WHAS radio. Later, Castner, a longtime railroad history enthusiast, worked as a public relations and information officer for the L & N Railroad Company, subsequently the Seaboard Systems Railroad.
Dates:
1889-1980; Majority of material found within 1960-1980
City of Louisville steamboat photograph
Accession
Identifier: 1999_045-PA
Cooperative Welfare Association minutes
Collection — Box 1
Identifier: 1983_013-UA
Content Description
The Cooperative Welfare Association served as the "company" union for the Louisville Railway Company, a private holder of Louisville's major street rail franchise. These records are minutes kept by that association.
Dates:
1920-1944
Egregious steamboat journal
Collection — Box 1
Identifier: 2004_086-UA
Content Description
The Egregious Steamboat Journal is a locally produced and published bimonthly journal documenting the river and steamboats. This collection consists of issues from May/June 1991-March/April 1998; issues 2-7 and 27-28 are missing.
Dates:
1991-1998
John Scott Elder memoirs
Collection — Box 1
Identifier: 1995_113-UA
Content Description
This material consists of a twenty-two page photocopy of a typewritten excerpt from the memoirs of Elder, a steamboat pilot on the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers. A notation on the cover indicates the original numbered 400 hundred pages. The location of the original is unknown.
Dates:
circa 1800-1829