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Items associated with name 'Eastern Shore Railroad'
Delmarva Railroad Stations photograph collection
by Unknown (1920s)
1 folder (0.01 linear feet)
Black and white photographic prints of varying railroad stations once located throughout the Delmarva Penninsula in Maryland and Delaware. Images include the Laurel Depot, Union Station in Salisbury, the Delmar Station, and the Bridgeville, Delaware Station.
J. Edwin Hobbs Writings
by Hobbs, J. Edwin (1983 – 1991)
1 folder (0.01 linear feet)
This collection contains two written pieces by J. Edwin Hobbs entitled "Eastern Shore Railroad Company and Variations on the Theme" and "Recalling two old action roadblocks."
Joseph Long Papers
by Long, Joseph L. (1937 – 2005)
8 cartons, 3 oversize boxes (11.25 linear feet)
Joe Long was an American athlete, soldier, railroad worker, and politician born in 1921 in Delmar, Maryland. The Joe Long collection contains material compiled by Joe Long and his wife Mabel, who acted his campaign manager during campaigns. Materials included are newspapers, government bills, speeches, cards, letters, books, scrapbooks, and photographs compiled and saved by the Longs since the late 1930's.
Kent Griffith Collection
by Griffith, Kent (1868 – 1998)
6 cartons, 5 oversize folders (10.5 linear feet)
The Kent Griffith Collection consists of extensive documentation of railways on and near Delmarva, including (but not limited to) the Eastern Shore Railroad, Pennsylvania Railroad, and New York, Pennsylvania, and Norfolk Railroad from the 1800s to the 1990s. While the collection includes Griffith's research notes and correspondence, as well as photographs he took and collected, the railroad memorabilia that Griffith collected was thorough and diverse. These documents include pass cards, time tables, employee timebooks, papers from a railroad employee TC Hurst, a scrapbook with hundreds of early 20th century Pennsylvania Railroad technical and safety memos, shipping and freight tags and receipts, detailed track charts and maps, and more.
Maritime and Railroad photograph collection
by Lewis, Robert J. (1920 – 1970)
6 folders (0.06 linear feet)
Series of black and white photographic prints documenting transportation pathways of maritime steamships, tugboats and ferries as well as railroad transportation in Baltimore as well as varying locations throughout the Eastern Shore including Vienna, Pocomoke, Salisbury and Whitehaven, Maryland and Chincoteague, Virginia.
Maryland Transit Administration Determination of Eligibility Report
by Maryland Transit Administration (2010)
1 folder (0.01 linear feet)
The Maryland Transit Administration Determination of Eligibility Report contains a CD consisting of the 2010 determination of eligibility report for the Eastern Shore Railroad Corridor-Crisfield Branch, and Queen Anne's railroad corridor.
Thomas Wimbrow collection
by Wimbrow, Thomas D. (1892 – 1922)
2 folders (0.02 linear feet)
This collection consists of a photograph and photocopies of railroad company tickets. The photograph was taken circa 1915 at the Whaleyville, Maryland station of the Baltimore, Chesapeake and Atlantic Railroad. The men in the photograph are Horace Hamblin, Ranzie Jones and Orville Cooper and are dressed in World War I army uniforms. The photocopies are an 1892 excursion ticket from the Baltimore & Eastern Shore Railroad Company and a 1922 Baltimore, Chesapeake & Atlantic Railway Company ticket. Also documented are two photographs of Sue Stewart Bounds grandparents, Grace Williams Stewart, and William E. Stewart, with corresponding photographs of their headstones.
Walsa Collection
by MacLeish, Patty; Reibel, Daniel B. (1999 – 2001)
1 folder (0.01 linear feet)
This collection contains photocopies of Maryland railroad lines from the 1880s through 1900s. Also included is a copy of "The Chronicle of Early American Industries Association" from September 1976, featuring an article about hand sewn timber logs and their construction.