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Box 44

 Container

Contains 67 Results:

Thomas L. Kane letter signed to R. Harris, 1882 July 9

 File — Box: 44, Folder: 1
Identifier: Vault MSS 792 Series 8 Sub-Series 2
Scope and Contents

Letter signed, from Thomas L. Kane to R. Harris, Vice President, accepting Harris’ proposition for railroad lines, 1 p., n.d.; Letter signed, from Thomas L. Kane to R. Harris, more on railroad lines, 1 p., n.d.; Letter signed, from Thomas L. Kane to Harris, railroad lines and the Roberts Lot, 1 p., n.d.; all letters written in Elizabeth Dennistoun Wood Kane’s hand, dated 9 July 1882.

Dates: 1882 July 9

Notes, 1891-1894

 Item — Box: 44, Folder: 1
Identifier: Vault MSS 792 Series 8 Sub-Series 2
Scope and Contents

Handwritten notes regarding stock for the Kinzua Hemlock Railroad on 30 June 1891, 30 December 1891, 30 June 1892, and 30 June 1893, 1 p., 10 September 1894.

Dates: 1891-1894

Notes

 Item — Box: 44, Folder: 1
Identifier: Vault MSS 792 Series 8 Sub-Series 2
Scope and Contents

Notes made on stationery of Thomson House, C.H. Kemp, Proprietor, Philadelphia & Erie Division of Pennsylvania R.R., Kane, PA, “we have to reserve much room for the railroad businesses,” 1 p., n.d.

Dates: Majority of material found within 1856-1932

Appeal, 1878

 File — Box: 44, Folder: 2
Identifier: Vault MSS 792 Series 8 Sub-Series 2
Scope and Contents

An Appeal to the Executive of Pennsylvania. An Address to Governor John F. Hartranft, Invoking the Aid of the State Against the Unlawful Acts of Corporations (Titusville, PA: Graham & Lake, 1878), photocopy, includes reprints of 2 contracts, 1 between the South Improvement Co. and the Pennsylvania Railroad Co., and 1 between the Petroleum Trade and the Pennsylvania Railroad Co., 14 pp., presented August 15, 1878.

Dates: 1878

Contract draft, 1881 February 10

 Item — Box: 44, Folder: 3
Identifier: Vault MSS 792 Series 8 Sub-Series 2
Scope and Contents

Draft of Contract between Thomas L. Kane and the New York Lake Erie & Western Railroad Company, 6 pp., followed by notes corresponding to the agreement, 2 pp., in envelope dated 10 February 1881.

Dates: 1881 February 10

Location profile, 1881 December 19

 Item — Box: 44, Folder: 4
Identifier: Vault MSS 792 Series 8 Sub-Series 2
Scope and Contents

Big Level and Kinzua Railroad, Profile of Location, surveyed by J.F. White, depicted on “Continuous Profile Paper,” the profile is adopted by the Big Level and Kinzua Railroad as their main line, Elisha K. Kane [Thomas L. Kane’s son] is their president, several different pieces were pasted together, rolled up in a scroll, 19 December 1881. In Series XI, Box 68.

Dates: 1881 December 19

Kinzua Viaduct lithograph, approximately 1882

 Item — Box: 44, Folder: 4
Identifier: Vault MSS 792 Series 8 Sub-Series 2
Scope and Contents

Printed lithograph of the Kinzua Viaduct, “The Highest Railroad Bridge in the World,” erected 1882, Thomas L. Kane, President; published by R.M. Ver Valin, Bradford, PA, n.d. In Series XI, Box 62, Folder 4.

Dates: approximately 1882

Mt. Jewitt Kinzua and Ritterville railroad day book, 1889-1890

 Item — Box: 44, Folder: 5
Identifier: Vault MSS 792 Series 8 Sub-Series 2
Scope and Contents

Mt. Jewitt, Kinzua & Ritterville Railroad Day Book, 1889-1890, hardbound, also includes entries not recorded in “General” and “RR” books, 147 pp. (29 pp. blank).

Dates: 1889-1890

J.W. Reynolds typewritten letter signed to Thomas L. Kane, Jr., 1897 April 24

 Item — Box: 44, Folder: 6
Identifier: Vault MSS 792 Series 8 Sub-Series 2
Scope and Contents

Typewritten letter signed, from J.W. Reynolds to Thomas L. Kane, Jr., request for a pass for Mrs. Kane has been submitted to the general superintendent, 1 p., 24 April 1897.

Dates: 1897 April 24

Fred Schoening letter to Thomas L. Kane, 1878 August 22

 Item — Box: 44, Folder: 10
Identifier: Vault MSS 792 Series 8 Sub-Series 2
Scope and Contents

Letter from Fred Schoening to Thomas L. Kane. Will complete the recording of the deeds by the third week in September, update of the Father Wienker project, 22 August 1878, 1 item.

Dates: 1878 August 22