Railroads -- Pennsylvania
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 60 Collections and/or Records:
Letter from the West End Passenger Railway Company of Philadelphia with the information requested in the Commission's communication on the 27th, 1873 November 1
Item — Drawer 8.3
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
The History Files collection contains research materials documenting parks, sites, structures, organizations, events, and individuals associated with the Fairmount Park System and Philadelphia Parks and Recreation. This collection compiles materials from diverse sources over time rather than representing the records of a single office or individual. Typical materials include correspondence, deeds, leases, newspaper clippings, photocopies of published articles and book excerpts, research...
Dates:
1873 November 1
Letter from Theodore Voorhees, First Vice President of the Reading Railway Company, informing the Commission that the resolution of December 13th and amendment of September 13th, 1901 was satisfactory and acceptable to the company, 1902 February 5
Item — Drawer 8.3
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
The History Files collection contains research materials documenting parks, sites, structures, organizations, events, and individuals associated with the Fairmount Park System and Philadelphia Parks and Recreation. This collection compiles materials from diverse sources over time rather than representing the records of a single office or individual. Typical materials include correspondence, deeds, leases, newspaper clippings, photocopies of published articles and book excerpts, research...
Dates:
1902 February 5
Letter to the Fairmount Park Commission from Alexander Murdoch, Director of the City of Philadelphia Department of Public Works, requesting the Commission's written approval of the enclosed agreement between the City of Philadelphia and the Schuylkill River East Side Railroad Company and the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company, 1928 February 17
Item — Drawer 8.3
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
The History Files collection contains research materials documenting parks, sites, structures, organizations, events, and individuals associated with the Fairmount Park System and Philadelphia Parks and Recreation. This collection compiles materials from diverse sources over time rather than representing the records of a single office or individual. Typical materials include correspondence, deeds, leases, newspaper clippings, photocopies of published articles and book excerpts, research...
Dates:
1928 February 17
Materials endorsing and rejecting the exchange of park land with the Reading Railroad: reports, opinion of the Park Solicitor, etc., 1878 May
Item — Drawer 8.3
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
The History Files collection contains research materials documenting parks, sites, structures, organizations, events, and individuals associated with the Fairmount Park System and Philadelphia Parks and Recreation. This collection compiles materials from diverse sources over time rather than representing the records of a single office or individual. Typical materials include correspondence, deeds, leases, newspaper clippings, photocopies of published articles and book excerpts, research...
Dates:
1878 May
Ordinance containing complete title of land owned in fee by the Pennsylvania Railroad Company, 1938 March 9
Item — Drawer 8.3
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
The History Files collection contains research materials documenting parks, sites, structures, organizations, events, and individuals associated with the Fairmount Park System and Philadelphia Parks and Recreation. This collection compiles materials from diverse sources over time rather than representing the records of a single office or individual. Typical materials include correspondence, deeds, leases, newspaper clippings, photocopies of published articles and book excerpts, research...
Dates:
1938 March 9
Ordinance exempting the right-of-way of the Darby Creek Line of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company from the provisions of the ordinance condemning Cobbs Creek Park, 1918 July 8
Item — Drawer 8.3
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
The History Files collection contains research materials documenting parks, sites, structures, organizations, events, and individuals associated with the Fairmount Park System and Philadelphia Parks and Recreation. This collection compiles materials from diverse sources over time rather than representing the records of a single office or individual. Typical materials include correspondence, deeds, leases, newspaper clippings, photocopies of published articles and book excerpts, research...
Dates:
1918 July 8
Pennsylvania Railroad Philadelphia Improvements. 34th Street Bridge. Masonry plan and sections, 1929 April 30
Item — Drawer F16 & F17, Folder: 7
Scope and Contents note
From the Collection:
This collection contains a variety of maps, plans and drawings relating to East and West Fairmount Park. Materials included in the collection are blueprints, bluelines, linens, mylars and paper. The collection contains diverse types of maps and plans, such as sewer plans, topographic plans, site plans, latitudinal and longitudinal plans, water main plans, street maps, and landscape plans. The collection is particularly strong in topographic plans, covering the entire region, and structural...
Dates:
1929 April 30
Pennsylvania Railroad Philadelphia Improvements. Proposed retaining walls along new river line from Spring Garden Street to West of Thirty-Fourth Street, 1929 August 24
Item — Drawer F16 & F17, Folder: 7
Scope and Contents note
From the Collection:
This collection contains a variety of maps, plans and drawings relating to East and West Fairmount Park. Materials included in the collection are blueprints, bluelines, linens, mylars and paper. The collection contains diverse types of maps and plans, such as sewer plans, topographic plans, site plans, latitudinal and longitudinal plans, water main plans, street maps, and landscape plans. The collection is particularly strong in topographic plans, covering the entire region, and structural...
Dates:
1929 August 24
Pennsylvania Railroad Philadelphia Improvements. Proposed zoo jumpover, 1929 September 9
Item — Drawer F16 & F17, Folder: 7
Scope and Contents note
From the Collection:
This collection contains a variety of maps, plans and drawings relating to East and West Fairmount Park. Materials included in the collection are blueprints, bluelines, linens, mylars and paper. The collection contains diverse types of maps and plans, such as sewer plans, topographic plans, site plans, latitudinal and longitudinal plans, water main plans, street maps, and landscape plans. The collection is particularly strong in topographic plans, covering the entire region, and structural...
Dates:
1929 September 9
Philadelphia, railroads: History - Pennsylvania Railroad, Broad Street Station, 1936, 1951
File — Shelf 35, Box: 39
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
The History Files collection contains research materials documenting parks, sites, structures, organizations, events, and individuals associated with the Fairmount Park System and Philadelphia Parks and Recreation. This collection compiles materials from diverse sources over time rather than representing the records of a single office or individual. Typical materials include correspondence, deeds, leases, newspaper clippings, photocopies of published articles and book excerpts, research...
Dates:
1936; 1951