This collection consists of 149 plate glass negatives of images of railroad cars, primarily those of the New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad, from the early 20th century. The images include exterior and interior views of coaches, dining cars, state room/sleeping cars, parlor cars, and freight cars.
Items in this collection are discoverable through an in-house database. Please contact the reference desk (archives@uconn.edu) for more information. Collection consists of maps and blueprints of portions of the New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad, which ran from 1872 to 1969 in Connecticut, Massachusetts, eastern New York and into New York City, and Rhode Island.
The collection holds documents related to early southern New England railroads, particularly those that were predecessor lines of the New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad, including the Boston, Hartford and Erie Railroad; the Boston and New York Airline Railroad; the Central New England Railway; the Charles River Railroad; the Chicago and Evanston Railroad; the Connecticut River Railroad; the Hartford and New Haven Railroad; the Hartford, Providence and Fishkill Railroad; the Housatonic Railroad; the Housantonic and Naugatuck Railroad; the Meriden and Cromwell Railroad; the Meriden, Waterbury, and Connecticut River Railroad; the Naugatuck Railroad; the New Haven and Derby Railroad; the New Haven and Northern Railroad; the New Haven and Northampton Company; the New York and New England Railroad; the New York and New Haven Railroad; the New York, Providence and Boston Railroad; the Newburgh, Dutchess and Connecticut Railroad; the Norfolk County Railroad; the Philadelphia, Reading, and New England Railroad; and the Poughkeepsie and Eastern Railway. The collection also includes correspondence Julius Wadsworth, who operated a New York based bond brokerage that heavily invested in railroads and Charles F. Pond, president of the Hartford and New Haven Railroad.
The corporate records of the New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad document the history and impact of the system that dominated railroad transportation in southern New England from 1872 to 1969.
For almost one hundred years the New York, New Haven, and Hartford Railroad, better known as the New Haven Railroad, was the primary means of passenger and freight transportation in Southern New England. Chartered in 1872, this merger between the New York & New Haven and Hartford & New Haven railroads later included the long desired rail link between Boston and New York.
For almost one hundred years the New York, New Haven, and Hartford Railroad, better known as the New Haven Railroad, was the primary means of passenger and freight transportation in Southern New England. Chartered in 1872, this merger between the New York & New Haven and Hartford & New Haven railroads later included the long desired rail link between Boston and New York.
The collection consists of 306 architectural drawings of 40 railroad stations, engine houses, signal stations and towers, and auxiliary buildings built by the New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad from 1886 to 1964. The maps are organized by job number; following the description of each plan is its print number. Two of the stations were designed by prominent architects Henry Bacon and Cass Gilbert. The collection also includes one gate sign, circa 1920s, from Back Bay Station in Massachusetts. Also consists of 1844 drawings of bridges along the NHRR right-of-way.
The collection consists of an almost complete set of the 1915 valuation series of the New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad done by the railroad for the Interstate Commerce Committee to account for its right-of-way and the property it owned throughout Connecticut, Massachusetts, eastern New York and New York City, and Rhode Island. The valuation maps give important historical information about the property purchased by the railroad, some from as early as the 1830s. Access to the maps can be found in the UConn Library digital repository at http://archives.lib.uconn.edu/islandora/object/20002%3AMSS19980378
The Niagara Frontier Review was a small magazine of poetry and prose published in Buffalo, New York, from 1964-1966. The editorial staff included Charles Olson, Harvey Brown, Charles Boer and others.
Nicholas J. Tomassetti was born 17 December 1914 in Pueblo, Colorado. He was a labor organizer and leader associated with the United Electrical, Radio & Machine Workers Union as well as a Democratic representative to the Connecticut General Assembly. Mr. Tomassetti died 18 December 1978 in New Britain, Connecticut.
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