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Railroads -- Utah -- History

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 241 Collections and/or Records:

Time cards, 1915

 Series
Identifier: MSS 278
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Tax papers (1904-1947), company correspondence (1909-1947), financial records including incoming statements and bank statements (1914-1929), financial papers for individual companies (1907-1953), mining bulletins (1926-1928), and over 200 maps and plans. The materials relate to the operations of the company and to the corporations in which it invested. Most of these companies were involved either in mining or in railroads.

Dates: 1915

United States Postal Service records

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31197232483450]
Identifier: MSS 2
Scope and Contents

The collection contains handwritten, typewritten, and printed postal schedules, dispatches, and employee records. The materials relate to the early mail service in the American West by rail. It includes information on railway post offices, postal employees, and railway policy covering 1869 to 1947.

Dates: 1869-1947

James William Ure diary

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230345669]
Identifier: MSS 980
Scope and Contents

Photocopy of a handwritten diary kept from 3 May 1876 to 7 Jan. 1882. Ure writes about working in a warehouse of the Utah Central Railroad, participating in music groups, and serving as an elders quorum president for the Mormon Church. Also included are notations of work schedules.

Dates: 1876-1882

Utah Central Railroad Company receipt

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230322296]
Identifier: MSS SC 2347
Scope and Contents

Handwritten and prined receipt for four doors and on "Bunch of Sush." The item is dated 1 May 1886. On the reverse side of the receipt is a printed item with a list of eighteen articles relating the the conditions and rules that form part of a formal contract.

Dates: 1886

The Utah Eastern Railroad and its predecessors

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230322239]
Identifier: MSS SC 2329
Scope and Contents

Carbon copy of a typewritten essay. The item was published in the Utah Historical Quarterly in the Jan. 1955 issue. The item relates to the efforts to bring coal by rail from the eastern areas of Utah.

Dates: 1955

Utah Pacific Railroad survey books

 Series
Identifier: MSS 278
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Tax papers (1904-1947), company correspondence (1909-1947), financial records including incoming statements and bank statements (1914-1929), financial papers for individual companies (1907-1953), mining bulletins (1926-1928), and over 200 maps and plans. The materials relate to the operations of the company and to the corporations in which it invested. Most of these companies were involved either in mining or in railroads.

Dates: 1885-1957

Utah Pacific Railroad survey books

 Series
Identifier: MSS 278
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Tax papers (1904-1947), company correspondence (1909-1947), financial records including incoming statements and bank statements (1914-1929), financial papers for individual companies (1907-1953), mining bulletins (1926-1928), and over 200 maps and plans. The materials relate to the operations of the company and to the corporations in which it invested. Most of these companies were involved either in mining or in railroads.

Dates: 1885-1957

Utah Territory certificates of acknowledgement

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230343193]
Identifier: MSS 31
Abstract

The collection contains printed and handwritten certificates from 1891-1892. The materials are official items issued by the Territory of Utah and acknowledge the existence of the Reed Hotel Company and the Salt Lake and Wyoming Railroad Company.

Dates: 1891-1892

Walter Claude Orem papers, 1914-1969

 Series
Identifier: MSS 6 Series 1
Scope and Contents

Two items concerning biographical statements (xerox copies). Literary rights rest with the respective publisher. Letter: September 26, 1949, Orem, Utah, from Major J. W. Gillman to W. C. Orem in SLC on the occasion of the dedication of the "Velvet Highway" in Orem, enclosing a copy of the speech Gillman delivered at the dedication. Letter: June 1944, Long Beach, California, from Orem's wife Mable to him in SLC 1 item. Literary rights on all above letters remain with the Orem family.

Dates: 1914-1969

John N. Weston, John Henry Weston, and Brad Weston collection

 Collection — Folder 7: Series 1
Identifier: MSS 8213
Scope and Contents

This collection includes photographs taken by Weston family members. It includes 43 photographs taken between 1896 and 1977 pertaining to the railroad in Milford, Utah. There are also 7 photographs of a Utah Army Air Corps Air Show in Lyndall, Utah in 1931. There is also a collection of booklets and pamphlets that were given by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (LDS Church) to youth during the 1950s.

Dates: approximately 1896-1977