Series 1: Photographs
Subseries 1.1: Subjects
Amtrak. Personnel
Antebellum. Runaways
Antebellum. Slavery
Antebellum. Travel
Art
Attendants. Bar/lounge cars
Attendants. Café cars
Baggage men
Barbers/valets
Brakemen
Buildings & Bridges gangs
Callers. Crew
Canadian railroads
Car cleaners. Exterior
Car cleaners. Interior
Car riders
Civil rights protests
Civil war scenes
Coal chutes laborers
Commissaries. Dining Car Department
Conductors
Construction crews
Convict labor
Cooks. Dining cars
Cooks. Work trains
Cooks and waiters. Dining car personnel
Crossing guards
Cuba railroads
Electric railroads
Elevator operators
Employee clubs
Employee IDs
Engineers
Excursions
Family life
Filipino attendants. Pullman
Firemen. Locomotive
Firemen and or brakemen
Fireman. Stationary
Freight truckers
Harvey Houses
Hoboes
Hospital staff
Hostlers
Hotel railroad workers
Icing dining cars
Icing reefers
Industries. Railroad-related
Inventors
Labor unions
Lamp tenders
Laundries
Leisure activities
Link and pin couplers
Locomotive cleaners/washers
Locomotive crews
Locomotive fuel dock workers
Logging railroads
Maintenance of way crews
Mail handlers
Military railroaders
Maritime railroad staff
Miscellaneous
Motor car operators
Music
Neighborhoods. Black
Office food service workers
Office workers
Parades
Passes
Porters. Brakemen
Porters. Parlor cars
Porters. Private cars
Porters. Sleeping cars
Porters. Station hands
Porters. Train (coach attendants)
Pullman. Laundries
Pullman. Shops
Pullman. Storerooms
Racial stereotypes in general advertising
Racially positive railroad advertising
Racism in railroad employee magazines
Racist depictions in railroad advertising
Racist postcards
Racist railroad humor in popular culture
Railway Post Office clerks
Red caps
Roundhouse laborers
Scrap yard laborers
Scrip railroads
Segregated car exteriors
Segregated car interiors
Segregated dining cars
Segregation. Gas-electric cars
Segregation. Stations
Segregation. Timetables
Shop laborers
Stations. General scenes
Stations. Food service
Stewards. Dining cars
Stock certificates
Sugar cane railroads
Switchmen
Telegraph linemen
Tie plant workers
Timber cutters
Travelers
Troops on trains
Waiters. Dining cars
Water boys
Women. Amtrak
Women. Cooks, food service
Women. Courier nurses / stewardesses / hostesses
Women. Electric railways
Women. Engineers
Women. Freight truckers
Women. Train maids (Pullman maids)
Women. Maintenance of way
Women. Miscellaneous
Women. Nineteenth-century railroads
Women. Offices
Women. Passenger service
Women. Shops, yards, roundhouses
Women. Station matrons / maids
Women. White woman railroads
Wreck crews
Wrecks
Yard workers
Miscellaneous. Non-black unknown subjects
Subseries 1.2: Railroads
Atlantic Coast Line, Wilmington Railroad Museum, [Wilmington, North Carolina]
Baltimore & Ohio, Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Museum, [Baltimore, Maryland]
Central of Georgia / Selma, Marion & Memphis Railroad, Atlanta History Center
Central of New Jersey/Pennsylvania Railroad, Reading Railroad, Hagley Museum and Library [Wilmington, Delaware]
Gainesville Midland, D. Hensley Collection
Gulf, Mobile, & Ohio, St. Louis Mercantile Library [Missouri]
Louisville & Nashville, University of Louisville [Kentucky]
Macon, Georgia, Middle Georgia Archives
Nineteenth-century engraving
Norfolk & Western, Virginia Polytechnic [Blacksburg, Virginia]
Passenger travel, Arthur Dubin Collection [Lake Forest College, Illinois]
The short lines, Don Hensley Collection
Various railroads, Pennsylvania Railroad Museum [Strasburg, Pennsylvania]
Series 2: Employee Magazines
Subseries 2.1: Railroad
SANTA FE MAGAZINE [Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway] 1907-1921
ATLANTIC & EAST CAROLINA RAILWAY NEWS 1943
ATLANTIC COAST LINES 1942-1948
BALTIMORE & OHIO EMPLOYEE MAGAZINE 1912-1957
RIGHT OF WAY (Central of Georgia) MAGAZINE 1917-1929
CENTRAL OF GEORGIA MAGAZINE 1930-1947
CHESAPEAKE & OHIO EMPLOYEE MAGAZINE 1915-1945
NORTH WESTERN NEWS LINER [Chicago & Northwestern Railway System] 1945-1948
ERIE RAILROAD EMPLOYES'(SIC) MAGAZINE 1907-1941
GULF, MOBILE & NORTHERN NEWS 1925-1941
REBEL ROUTE NEWS [Gulf, Mobile & Ohio] 1941-1942
ILLINOIS CENTRAL MAGAZINE 1911-1952
LOUISVILLE & NASHVILLE EMPLOYEE MAGAZINE 1925-1951
MILWAUKEE MAGAZINE [Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul & Pacific] 1945-1967
MISSISSIPPI CENTRAL ROUND TABLE 1927
MISSOURI, KANSAS AND TEXAS EMPLOYEE MAGAZINE 1913-1955 1931 1953-1955
MISSOURI PACIFIC MAGAZINE 1923-1950
NEW YORK CENTRAL LINES MAGAZINE 1929
NORFOLK & WESTERN MAGAZINE 1924-1942
MUTUAL MAGAZINE [Pennsylvania Railroad] 1915-1919
THE PENNSY [Pennsylvania Railroad] 1952-1967
PULLMAN NEWS 1922-1955
READING RAILROAD MAGAZINE 1926-1935
READING-JERSEY CENTRAL 1936-1943
READING-JERSEY CENTRAL. Black employees
RICHMOND, FREDERICKSBURG & POTOMAC MONTHLY BULLETIN
SOUTHERN PACIFIC NEWS BULLETIN 1917, 1929-1930
SOUTHERN PACIFIC BULLETIN, PACIFIC LINES 1922-1929, 1941-1945
SOUTHERN PACIFIC BULLETIN, TEXAS-LOUISIANA LINES 1930-1938, 1940-1951
TIES [Southern Railway] 1947, 1964
Subseries 2.2: Title
BROWN RAILROADER, National Association of Negroes in American Industry 1946
THE CRISIS, National Association for the Advancement of Colored People 1913-1919
DINING CAR WORKER 1942
LOCOMOTIVE FIREMEN & ENGINEMEN'S MAGAZINE, [Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen & Enginemen]
MONTHLY BULLETIN OF THE INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF RAILWAY EMPLOYEES 1953
NEGRO RAILWAY LABOR NEWS [Negro Railway Labor Executives Committee] 1948-1949
NEGRO TRAVELER [ Negro Transportation Workers, Travelers 1945
NEW YORK AGE. PULLMAN PORTER'S NEWS 1931-1937
Series 3: Subject Files
Slavery (By railroad):
Alabama & Florida (of Alabama)
Alabama & Mississippi Rivers
Alabama & Tennessee River
Alabama, Florida, and Georgia
Alexandria, Loudoun & Hampshire
Atlanta & West Point
Atlantic & Gulf
Atlantic & North Carolina
Augusta & Savannah
Augusta & Waynsboro
Baltimore & Ohio
Baton Rouge, Grosse Tete, and Opelousas
Blue Ridge Railroad
Brunswick & Florida
Buffalo Bayou, Brazos & Colorado
Carrollton & New Orleans
Centerville Railroad
Central of Georgia
Central Southern
Charleston & Hamburg
Charleston & Savannah
Charlotte & Columbia
Charlotte & South Carolina
Chatham Railroad
Cheraw & Darlington
Chesapeake & Ohio
Clinton & Vicksburg
Columbia & Augusta
Covington & Ohio
Eastern Texas Railroad
East Tennessee & Georgia
East Tennessee & Virginia
East Tennessee, Virginia & Georgia
Florida Railroad
Florida, Atlantic & Gulf
Galveston, Houston, & Henderson
Georgia Railroad
Greenville & Columbia
Henderson & Mexican Gulf
Hiwassee Railroad
Houston & Texas Central
Houston Tap & Brazoria
Illinois Central
Jackson & Brandon
Kings Mountain
La Grange & Memphis
Lexington & Ohio
Louisa Railroad
Louisville & Nashville
Louisville, Cincinnati & Charleston
Lynchburg & Tennessee
Macon & Augusta
Macon & Brunswick
Macon & Western
Manassas Gap Railroad
Memphis & Charleston
Memphis & Little Rock
Memphis & Ohio
Memphis, El Paso & Pacific
Mexican Gulf Railroad
Milledgeville Railroad
Mississippi & Alabama
Mississippi & Pearl River
Mississippi & Tennessee
Mississippi Central
Mississippi, Ouachita & Red River
Mississippi Railroad & Banking
Mobile & Girard
Mobile & Great Northern
Mobile & Ohio
Monroe Railroad
Montgomery & West Point
Montgomery Railroad
Muscogee Railroad
Nashville & Chattanooga
Nashville & North Western
New Orleans & Nashville
New Orleans, Jackson & Great Northern
New Orleans, Opelousas & Great Western
Norfolk & Petersburg
North Carolina Railroad
North East & South West Alabama
North Eastern Railroad
Northwestern Virginia
Orange & Alexandria
Pacific Railroad (Missouri)
Pensacola & Georgia
Petersburg Railroad
Piedmont Railroad
Pontchartrain Railroad
Portsmouth & Roanoke
Raleigh & Gaston
Richmond & Danville
Richmond & Petersburg
Richmond & York River
Richmond, Fredericksburg & Potomac
Roanoke Valley
San Antonio & Mexican Gulf
Savannah, Albany & Gulf
Seaboard & Roanoke
Selma & Meridian
South & North Alabama
Southern Carolina Railroad
South Side Railroad
South Western Railroad
Southern Pacific Texas
Southern Railroad (Mississippi)
Spartanburg & Union
Tallahassee Railroad
Tennessee & Alabama
Tennessee & Coosa
Texas & New Orleans
Thomaston & Barnesville
Tuscumbia, Courtland & Decatur
Tuskegee Railroad
Upson County
Vicksburg & Jackson
Vicksburg, Shreveport & Texas
Virginia & Tennessee
Virginia Central
Washington County Railroad (Texas)
West Feliciana Railroad
Western & Atlantic
Western North Carolina
Western Railroad
Wetumpka & Coosa
Willis Valley Railroad
Wilmington & Manchester
Wilmington & Weldon
Wilmington, Charlotte & Rutherford
Winchester & Potomac
Slavery (General):
Tredegar Iron Works
Railroad annual reports seen
Antebellum railroad mileage
Antebellum railroad maps
Slave-using railroads. Worksheets
Slave-using railroads. Analysis
Slavery lines today. Originally built by slaves
Union Pacific predecessor slave-using lines
Reparations
Slavery (By state):
Alabama
Florida
Georgia
North Carolina
Tennessee
Texas
Virginia
Slave Labor (By subject):
General
Confederate railroads and slaves
Contractors, slave hiring
Effect of railroads on slavery, slaves
Effect of slavery on railroad development
Efficiency of slave labor
Engineers
Fireman "Best Friend of Charleston"
Free black railroad workers alongside slave
Hiring rates and terms
Inter-state slave trade and railroads
Local contractors using own slave
Maintenance of way gangs, practices
Overseers for railroad construction. Slaves
Payment for extra work
Policies on slaves
Prices
Publicly owned slaves
Punishment
Reward railroad slave's heroism
Skilled and unskilled laborers
Skilled slave laborers
Slave brakemen
Slave firemen
Station cabmen / hotel runners
Station food vendors
Station hands
Tie cutters
Train personnel
Unidentified construction contractors
White vs. black labor compared
Wood cutters
Women. Railroads. Enslaved. Mississippi
Slavery. Courts. Railroads (By state):
Alabama
Florida
Georgia
Kentucky
Louisiana
Mississippi
North Carolina
South Carolina
Tennessee
Texas
Virginia
Slavery. Courts. Railroads (By subject):
Accidents/injuries
Construction
Contractors' treatment
Ejection from streetcars
Escaped slaves
Fakes/forgeries
Miscellaneous
No owners permission
Antebellum. Railroads:
Overview. Railroad development
Construction practices
Construction costs
Tracks and roadbed
Hours of work on railroads
Dangers of railroad work
Locomotives
Freight and passenger equipment
Travel conditions
Slave passengers
Fares for slaves, free blacks
Convict labor on Southern railroads
Underground railroad
North – South railroad politics
Northern black railroaders
Civil War. Railroads:
Southern railroads' hiring practices
Railroads' reliance on slave labor
State of Southern railroads 1861, 1865
Impressments of free blacks for railroads
Railroads of the Confederate States of America. Depletion white workers
Blacks repair Mississippi
Free black railroaders. Virginia
Confederate imprints
Convict labor on railroads
Confederate currency inflation chart
Contraband railroad workers (North)
Reconstruction. Railroads:
Reconstruction era railroads
Violence on trains
Miscellaneous railroad labor
Miscellaneous Irish labor
Miscellaneous Chinese labor
Politically corrupt railroads
Railroad vs. farm labor
Black railroad labor
Pay rates. North Carolina 1870
Post-Reconstruction. Railroads:
Southern railroad development
Narrow gauge to short gauge conversion 1886
Convict Lease:
History
Antebellum
Alabama
Georgia
Georgia Prison Commission. Reports
Louisiana
Mississippi
North Carolina
North Carolina. Prison labor contracts
Tennessee
Canada. Railroaders
Canada. Pullman porters
Personal accounts
Convict Lease (By railroad):
Ashville & Spartanburg Railroad
Buchman & Clifton Forge Railroad
Cape Fear & Yadkin Valley
Danville & New River Railroad
Danville & Western Railroad
Elkin & Allegheny Railroad
New River Railroad
South Atlanta Trans Continental Railroad
Statesville Air Line Railroad
West North Carolina Railroad
Segregation:
Antebellum. South
Antebellum. West
Antebellum. North
Antebellum. Massachusetts
Origin of Jim Crow term
Customs
Personal experiences / indignities
South. White defenses of
Inadequate segregation. White complaints
Railroads appeal to black passengers
White protests against
Southern railroads opposition to laws
Segregation. Laws:
Law
State laws. Enactment
Segregation. Laws (By state):
Alabama
Arkansas
Florida
Georgia
Maryland
Mississippi
Oklahoma
South Carolina
Texas
Virginia
Segregation. Stations. Plans (By station):
Alexandria, Virginia
Americus, Georgia
Ashland, Virginia
Camden, Arkansas
Durham, North Carolina
Earl, North Carolina
Fredericksburg
Goldsboro, North Carolina
Itta Bena, Mississippi
Kinston, North Carolina
Morgan City, Mississippi
Nebo, North Carolina
Plymouth, North Carolina
Raleigh, North Carolina
Richmond, Virginia
Rural Hall, North Carolina
Salisbury, North Carolina
Sandersville, Mississippi
Selma, North Carolina
Sterns, North Carolina
Vicksburg, Mississippi
Weldon, North Carolina
Winston Salem, North Carolina
Segregated Cars. Diagrams (By railroad):
Central of Georgia Railway
Chesapeake & Ohio
Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railway
Durham & Southern
East Tennessee & Western North Carolina Railroad
Florida East Coast Railway
Georgia Railroad
Missouri-Kansas-Texas
Mobile & Ohio
Virginian Railway
Segregated Cars (By railroad):
Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe
Atlantic & North Carolina
Atlantic & Western
Atlantic Coast Line
Cape Fear & Northern
Illinois Central
Kansas City Southern
Louisville & Nashville
Louisville & Nashville discrimination 1950-1969
Missouri Central
Missouri Pacific
Mobile & Ohio
Norfolk & Western
Norfolk Southern Railway
Queen & Crescent
Richmond, Fredericksburg & Potomac
St. Louis – San Francisco
Seaboard Airline Railroad
Southern Railway
Southern Pacific
Segregated Cars:
Consists, trains
Dining cars
1st and 2nd classes
Interstate. North to South, South to North
Interurban lines
Ladies' cars
Pullman cars
Street cars
Segregation. Reconstruction Era Protests (By date):
North Carolina 1895-1920
Central of Georgia Railway 1912-1930
North Carolina 1920
Central of Georgia 1950-1953
South-wide report 1952
Workers locker room, Minneapolis & St. Louis Railway
Housing, Chicago & North Western
Union Pacific
Jobs (By job):
Baggage / mail porter
(Train) barbers
Blacksmiths
Brakemen
(News) butchers
(Train) callers
Car cleaners
Coal chute laborers
Conductor
Construction laborers
Cooks. Commissaries
Cooks. Dining cars
Crossing guards
Railroad doctors
Engineers
Firemen
Freight truckers
Fuel dock laborers
Gatemen
Hostlers
Janitors
Logging railroads
Longshoremen
(Train) maids
Maintenance of way. Laborers
Maintenance of way. Extra gangs
Maintenance of way. Foremen
(Railroad) maritime operations
Office car cooks and porters
Parlor car attendants
Porters. Sleeping cars
Porters. Train (coach)
Pumper
Railway Post Office clerks
Red caps
Roundhouse laborers
Security officers
Shop laborers
Station (depot) hands
Station restaurants
Street railway laborers
Subway workers, New York Central
Switchmen
Train hostesses/nurses
Waiters, dining cars
Water boys/water girls (passenger cars)
White collar
Wood passers
Yard laborers
Hours / Pay:
South. Switchmen / brakemen 1890-1899
Firemen. Southern short lines 1912
Maintenance of way. Missouri – Louisiana short lines 1916
Dining car waiters 1910-1919
Hours / Pay (By railroad):
Atlantic & Southern. Car wage difference 1939
Atlantic & Richmond Air Line 1872
Atlantic & Western (2 files) 1917-1979
Atlantic Coast Line. Train porters 1945-1955
Bachman Valley Railroad 1870-1879
Carolina & Northwestern
Central of Georgia cleaners. Maintenance of way 1920-1925
Central of Georgia other roads 1922
Central of Georgia. Black workers 1927
Central of Georgia. Black workers 1940-1949
Central of Georgia racial pay scale
Central of Georgia. Job discrimination
Chesapeake & Ohio 1876-1915 1976 1915
Chicago & North Western. Employment records
Columbus & Greenville Railway. Trainmen 1919
Columbus & Greenville Railway. Carmen 1924
Columbus & Greenville Railway. Interstate Commerce Commission report 1925
Columbus & Greenville Railway. Maintenance of way 1930
Delaware, Lackawanna & Western 1941
Durham & Southern 1937-1942
East Tennessee & Western North Carolina. Black employees
Erie Railroad. Waiters / stewards 1956
Florida East Coast Railway Key West Extension. Peonage
Gulf & Ship Island 1916-1918
Gulf & Ship Island 1928-1935
Gulf Coast Lines with Colored Trainmen of America
Gulf, Mobile & Northern. Trainmen 1924
Gulf, Mobile & Northern. Firemen
Gulf, Mobile, & Ohio. Firemen/porters/brakemen 1942
Gulf, Mobile, & Ohio. Employment discrimination 1970
Illinois Central 1920-1939
Louis & Arkansas. Trainmen
Louis & Arkansas. Train porters
Louisville & Nashville. Employment discrimination 1959
Mississippi Central 1907-1943
Mississippi Central. Maintenance of way employees 1946-1948
Mississippi Central. Firemen's pay 1914
Mississippi Central. Enginemen's agreement
Mississippi Central. Employees 1913-1930
Missouri- Kansas-Texas. Car cleaners 1918
Mobile & Ohio. Enginemen/firemen's agreement 1924
Mobile & Ohio. Pay rates 1932-1938
New Orleans Great Northern. Enginemen/firemen's agreement 1926
New Orleans Great Northern. Pay rates 1907-1912
Norfolk & Western. Pay rates 1800-1917
North Carolina Railroad. Payrolls 1880-1889
Pullman Company 1910s-1940s (file MISSING 9/3/20) 1910-1949
Richmond, Fredericksburg & Potomac. Employees 1865-1900
Richmond, Fredericksburg & Potomac. Brakemen 1860-1879 1910-1919
Richmond, Fredericksburg & Potomac. Black workers 1870-1879
Seaboard Airline. Dining car workers 1944
Southern Railway. Annual final reports 1895-1959
Southern Railway. Payrolls 1900 1923
Southern Railway. Firemen 1895
Southern Railway. Honor roll 1916
Southern Railway. Pay differentials 1895-1926
Southern Pacific. Redcaps 1921
Washington City, Va. Midland & Great Southern Railroad 1875
Statistics:
Railroad employment
Railroad wages
Railroad employment. Census 1940
Railroad employment 1959 1963
Seniority (By railroad):
Atlanta & East Carolina 1939-1962
Chesapeake & Ohio
Gulf, Mobile, & Ohio 1957
Norfolk & Western 1923 1937-1938
Southern Railway 1931 1943 1953
Virginia Railway 1923
Labor:
Union Activity (file MISSING 9/3/20)
White railroad unions. Seniority
Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters
Benevolent Order of Pullman Porters
Colored Trainmen of America
Dining Car & Railroad Food Workers' Union
Dining Car Employees Union
International Association of Railway Employees
International Association of Negro Trainmen
National Trade Union conference for Negro rights
Unionization of red caps
Black railroad unions, general
World War 1 era. Black railroad unions
Black workers and labor movement to 1930
Post World War II. Conditions
Violence vs. black railroaders
Black vs. white employee conflict
White railroad unions, late 19th – early 20th century
White railroad unions 1880-1960
White railroad unions. Contracts
White railroad unions. Constitutions
Brotherhood of locomotive firemen. Racial ratios
Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen. 1st black member 1953
White enginemen vs. black engineers / conductors
Strikes. Savannah Railroad dock workers
Strikes. Galveston Railroad longshoremen
Strikes. Southern Railway
Cincinnati, New Orleans & Texas Pacific. Firemen's strike 1911
Strike. Georgia Railroad
Strike. Shop workers. Nationwide
Discipline. Washington & Old Dominion Railroad
Louisville & Nashville
Railroads. Buffalo, New York (file MISSING 9/14/20)
Full crew laws. Missouri
Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe 1869-1900
Railroads. Cleveland
Railroads. World War II
Railroad ferries
Labor. U.S. Railroad Administration:
Orders
Protests vs. segregation
Wage claim disallowed
National Brotherhood Workers of America. Correspondence
Inquiry by the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
Texas Rangers spy on "radical" blacks
Firemen, hostlers, switchmen
Mechanical Department. Maintenance of way workers
Station's truckers
U.S. Railroad Administration Supplement 12. Porter-brakemen
Labor. U.S. Railroad Administration (By subject):
Atlantic Coast Line. Firemen's claims
Atlantic Coast Line. Porters' wage claims
Atlantic Coast Line. Shop workers' claims
Central of Georgia. Protests vs. segregation
Chicago & Alton Railroad. Train porters' complaints
Chicago Great Western. Porters' wage claims
Florida East Coast. Firemen's wages
Georgia, Florida & Southern. Train porters. Supplement 12
Gulf Coast Lines. Brakemen. Supplement 12
Houston Belt & Terminal Railway. Baggage men's claims
Great Northern brakemen. Supplement 12
M&D shop workers' claims
North Carolina & St Louis. Porters wage claims
New Orleans & North Eastern. Roundhouse workers
Philadelphia Terminal. Baggage men
Pullman porters' wage complaints
Seaboard Air Line. Passenger brakemen
Southern Pacific porters. Supplement 12
Southern Pacific Lines. Brakemen
Southern Railroad. Porter / flagmen's claims
Post-U.S. Railroad Administration wage cuts
Women's Bureau inspections
Fair Employment Practice Committee:
Statistics. Railroad employment
Railroad cases. General
Fair Employment Practice Commitee (By railroad):
Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe
Atlanta & West Point
Atlanta, Birmingham & Coast
Atlanta joint terminals
Atlantic Coast Line
Baltimore & Ohio
Baltimore & Ohio. Chicago Terminal
Canton & Carthage
Central of Georgia
Central of New Jersey
Chesapeake & Ohio
Chicago & Alton
Chicago & Northwestern
Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific
Dallas Railway & Terminal
Delaware, Lackawanna & Western
Florida East Coast
Georgia Railroad
Gulf, Colorado & Santa Fe
Gulf & Ship Island
Gulf, Mobile & Ohio
Illinois Central
Jacksonville Terminal
Louisville & Arkansas
Louisville & Nashville
Missouri-Kansas-Texas
Missouri Pacific
New York Central
Norfolk & Western
Norfolk Southern
Pennsylvania Railroad
Pullman Company
Railway Mail Service
Reading Company
St. Louis – San Francisco
Seaboard Air Line
Southern Railway
Southern Pacific Lines
Texas & Pacific
Union Pacific
Virginia Railway
Yazoo & Mississippi Valley
Urban transit cases
Fair Employment Practice Committee (By union):
Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen
Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen
Brotherhood of Railway Steamship Clerks
International Association of Machinists
International Brotherhood of Boilermakers
Order of Railway Conductors
Interstate Commerce Commission. Segregation:
Complaints
Complaints. Annual report 1889
Complaints. Crosby v. St. Louis – SF
Complaints. Edwards v. North Carolina & St Louis
Complaints. Gaines et al. v. Seaboard Lines
Complaints. Council v. West & Atlantic
Complaints. Heard v. Georgia Railroad
Complaints. Cozart v. Southern Railroad
Complaints. Evans v. Chesapeake & Ohio
Jim Crow hearings 1954
Railroad discrimination vs. black seamen
Legal Victories Against (By date):
Chesapeake & Ohio v. Ida B. Wells 1887
Plessy v. Ferguson 1896
Light & Traction Co. v. Compton / Mississippi Mitchell v. U.S 1905 1941
Teague v. Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen & Enginemen and Gulf, Mobile & Northern 1941
Turnstall v. Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen & Enginemen 1944
Morgan v. Virginia 1946
Henderson v. the United States 1950
Steele v. Louisville & Nashville 1951
Solomon v. Pennsylvania Railroad / Chance v. Lambeth 1951
Conley v. Gibson / Brotherhood of Railway & Steamship Clerks 1957
Cases (General):
National War Labor Board. Recruiting labor 1918
National War Labor Board. Mail porters and bagmen
Railway Labor Board. Association of Colored Railway Trainmen v. Illinois Central / Yazoo & Mississippi Valley
Bureau of Employment. Security. Dining car waiters 1926
Bureau of Employment. Security. Railroad workers 1932
Bureau of Employment. Security. Porters 1927
National Mediation Board. Tennessee & Pacific coach cleaners 1940
National Mediation Board. Association of Colored Railway Trainmen v. Illinois Central / Yazoo & Mississippi Valley
National Mediation Board. Red caps v. New York Central
National Mediation Board. Association of Colored Railway Trainmen v. Illinois Central
National Mediation Board. Trainmen v. Missouri Pacific
National Mediation Board. Cincinnati, New Orleans & Texas Pacific v. Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen & Enginemen
National Mediation Board. Georgia Railroad v. Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen & Enginemen
National Railroad Adjustment Board. Rules and procedures
National Railroad Adjustment Board. Chicago Union St. redcaps
Equal Employment Opportunity Commission
Accidents (General):
Railroad Safety Appliance Act 1893
Deaths. Black railroaders
1865-1900
North Carolina railroaders 1889
Atlantic Coast Line 1898-1933
Brunswick & Western 1889-1893
Mississippi Central 1905-1907
Columbus & Greenvillle 1938-1939
Chesapeake & Ohio tunnel construction 1901
Chesapeake & Ohio 1919
Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific 1910
Illinois Central 1943
Southern Railway 1906
Statistics 2004
Women (General):
Black railroaders database
Transportation industry
Railroaders. General
White railroaders
Railroad unions
Railroaders. World War I era
Railroaders. World War II era
Illinois Central Railroad (By date):
Maintenance of Way. Nature of work
Pullman Company (General):
History
Car cleaners. Pay 1913-1932
Maids. Instructions
Maids. Employment records
Car Cleaners. Cleaning
Pay comparisons. Various jobs
Laundry workers
Porters. Anecdotes
Porters. Duties, working conditions
Porters. Wrecks
Pay rates. All categories 1915-1947
Porters. Instruction
Porters. Statistics 1930s 1930-1939
Porters. Economic records
Waiters, cook, attendants
Instructions. Waiters and attendants
Bus boys barbers
Filipino attendants
Maids
Pennsylvania Railroad (General):
And blacks
Blacks. General
Pennsylvania Railroad. Pennsylvania Archives (General):
Blacks. Miscellaneous
World War II advertising
Pay rates
Voluntary relief department
Maintenance of way cost
Maintenance of way working conditions
Marine department, NY harbor
Pennsylvania Railroad. Pennsylvania State University (General):
Wage and Labor Bureau. Conductor/trainmen pay
Wage and Labor Bureau. Retiring workers
Wage and Labor Bureau. Maintenance of way pay rates
Wage and Labor Bureau. Pay. Various Railroads
Wage and Labor Bureau. Maintenance of way ethnicity various railroads
Pennsylvania Railroad. Pennsylvania State University (By division)
Allegheny Division. Pay station matrons
Conemaugh Division. Female crossing guards
Monong Division. Force fluctuation 1919
Monong Division. Reduction in forces 1919
Monong Division. Maintenance of way numbers 1926-1927
West Pennsylvania Grand Division. Maintenance of way labor
Pennsylvania Railroad. Hagley Museum and Library (General):
Pullman Company. Pay rates 1944
Filipinos, employment of 1930-1939
Census blacks Northwestern region 1921
Average wage rates 1942
Maintenance of way pay rates 1920
Negro welfare work 1923-1925
Pullman Company employer's representation
Employee census 1951
Segregation into/out of the South 1940-1949
Employment of blacks 1923-1924
Census of black railroaders 1920
Black trainmen and porters 1919-1925
Employment of blacks 1943-1955
Black trainmen and porters 1907-1917
Black trainmen 1920
Black trainmen and porters 1919
Indian laborers 1947-1955
Messengers, business car porters
Employment application forms 1940
Employment of blacks 1943-1945
Dining car. Pay rates 1919-1920
National Association for the Advancement Colored People 1946-1957
Maintenance of way. Pay rates 1916-1920
Camp car inspections 1934-1944
Employment of women and minors 1920-1921
Coach cleaners 1919
Female employees 1917-1922
Employment of blacks 1920-1925
Pullman Company. Pay rates 1944-1948
Race relations/blacks 1925-1951
Females, blacks, Mexicans 1945
Common labor. Pay rates 1918
Pennsylvania Railroad / Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, New York Public Library (General):
Discrimination against black trainmen
Black strike breakers 1913
Shop workers, World War I
Red cap service 1940-1949
Employment statistics
History. Railroads. Blacks (General):
South
Florida
Florida. Black railroads populate South Florida
Florida East Coast Key West Extension
Georgia
Central of Georgia
Louisiana
Memphis
Migration. Nineteenth century
Great migration 1915-1929
Great migration, FBI investigations
Great migration, railroad and annual reports
Upper Texas Gulf
Blacks. Kansas
Blacks. Pennsylvania
Blacks. Wilmington, North Carolina
Black Labor. Transcontinental railroad
Black Labor. Fort Wayne & Detroit
Black railroaders in the West. Post civil war
Nineteenth century traveling conditions
Rolling stock. 1st class dining cars
Rolling stock. 1st class hotel cars
Rolling stock. 1st class Pullman cars
Railroad inventors
Black-owned railroads
Hobos
Crime / disorderly conduct on passenger cars
Malcolm X Pullman employment
Freedom train 1947
Milwaukee Road. Research notes
Western Pacific. Research notes
Amtrak. Black employment
Amtrak. Black passengers. "City of New Orleans"
Contemporary railroads black employment
Contemporary black train travel
Norfolk Southern black hiring/promotion
Black Railroaders. Communal Life (General):
Railroad "family"
Churches
Wheel rolling (no contents in folder 9/28/20)
Musical groups (no contents in folder 9/28/20)
Sports teams
Travel passes
Excursions
Station social life
Economic gains
Symbolism/imagery. Railroads
Music (By subject)
Lists
Catalogues
Railroads on records
Scott Joplin
Lyrics. Spirituals
Lyrics. Gospel
Lyrics. Folk songs and ballads
Lyrics. Work songs
Lyrics. Tin pan alley
Lyrics. Big band
Lyrics. Rhythm & blues
Lyrics. Rock to rap
Lyrics. Blues
History / analysis. Blues
History / analysis. Blues, females
Music. Instrumental
Train wreck songs
Historic field recordings 1939-1941
Recordings. General railroad song composition
Recordings. Work songs
Recordings. Railroad blues
Recordings. Female blues singers
Recordings. Golden gate quartet
Recordings. Hangen brothers
Recordings. Black railroad song compilation
Historic videos and recordings
Art (By subject)
Railroads. General
Radcliffe Bailey
Romare Bearden (Missing. 7/16/21)
John Biggers
Joseph Delaney
Walter Ellison
Palmer Hayden
William H. Johnson
Jacob Lawrence
Jerry Pinckney
Mark Priest
Henry Spiller
Black railroad subjects by white artists
Poetry (General):
Pre-Harlem renaissance (Note: no contents in file folder 9/22/20)
Langston Hughes
Sterling Brown
Port-Harlem renaissance
Fiction (General):
Claude McKay
Lloyd Brown
Albert Murray
Miscellaneous
Other Media (General):
Theater. August Wilson
Film. Railroad content in black cinema
Videos
Folklore/reality. John Henry
Folklore/reality. Railroad Bill
Folklore/reality. Casey Jones and Sim Webb
Transcript [of] "Gandy Dancers" [film]
Interviews (General):
Theola Campbell
Abraham Thompson & Isaac Thompson
Ray Wongus
Steward H. Bostic
E. Davis
Warren Jones
Oral History (By subject):
Garfield Atkins
Allen Brown
Robert Cotton
Preston Elium (Elivon)
Eugene Goodlett
Clyde Hilliard
Thomas Niel, Jr
Robert Palmer
Mac Poe / MB Woods
Marion Poe
Rebecca Smith
Louis Stewart
Albert Stout
Oswald Thorne
Owen White
Marvin Woods
Reminiscences:
Tom Edward
Thomas Fleming
James J. Heyliger
Miscellaneous and interviews
Series 4: Collection Guides
National Railway Historical Society:
List of railroad historical society collection guides
Chapters. Inquiries
Winston-Salem Chapter
National Railway Bulletin. Index
State archives. Addresses
Collection distribution. Pennsylvania Railroad papers
Collection guides. Pennsylvania Railroad papers:
Collection Guides Pennslvania Railroad Papers Hagley Museum & Library [Wilmington, Delaware]
Pennsylvania State Archives Harrisburg, Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania State University [Centre County, Pennsylvania]
Railroad Museum of Pennsylvania [Harrisburg, Pennsylvania]
North Carolina African American resources
Various North Carolina archives
Collections at University of North Carolina:
Various University of North Carolina archives
Arnold and Screven families
Bryan family papers
Brennan Cameron papers
Fisher family papers
Gordon family papers
Charles I. Graves papers
Duff Green papers
Hamilton Brown papers
Hawkins family papers
Calvin Jones papers
Peter Evans Smith papers
Archibauld Wiggins papers
William Worrell Vas papers
Slavery in Southern industries
Guides to photographic collections:
Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation & Archives at Cornell University
Kansas State Historical Society [Topeka, Kansas]. Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe papers
The Newberry Library [Chicago, Illinois]. Pullman Company papers
California State Railroad Museum[Sacramento, California]. Index to photograph collection
California State Railroad Museum. Railway & Locomotive Historical Society photograph collection
Various photograph collections
John W. Barriger III National Railroad Library, University of Missouri-St. Louis (file EMPTY 9/23/20)
Bibliography
Railroad terminology
Railroad lingo
Series 5: Correspondence
General
Arkansas State University
Arthur Dubin Collection, Lake Forest College [Illinois]
Art Institute of Chicago
Ashville North Carolina Public Library
Atlanta History Center
Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Museum [Baltimore, Maryland]
The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley
Brown University Library [Providence, Rhode Island]
California State Railroad Museum. Correspondence [Sacramento]
Carnegie Museum of Art [Pittsburgh, Pa.]
Chesapeake & Ohio Historical Society [Clifton Forge, Virginia]
Dallas Public Library
DeGolyer Library, Southern Methodist University [Dallas, Texas]
Duke University Special Collections [Durham, North Carolina]
Durham, North Carolina City Library Photo Archives
Filson Club Historical Society Collection Guide [Louisville, Kentucky]
Florida State Library and Archives [Tallahassee, Florida]
Georgia Archives [Morrow, Georgia]
Georgia Historical Society, Central of Georgia Railway [Savannah, Georgia]
Hagley Museum and Library [Wilmington and Newark Delaware]
Harrison Museum of African American Culture [Roanoke, Virginia]
History Center [Diboli, Texas]
Kansas State Historical Society [Topeka, Kansas]
Lauren Rogers Museum of Art [Laurel, Mississippi]
Library of Congress [Washington, DC]
Library of Florida. History. University of Florida [Gainesville, Florida]
Los Angeles Public Library
Marvin Black Southern Railroad Collection [Raleigh, North Carolina]
Michael Rosenfeld Gallery, New York [New York, New York]
Middle Georgia Archives. Washington Memorial Library [Macon, Georgia]
Minnesota State Historical Society [St. Paul, Minnesota]
Mountain Gateway Museum [Old Fort, North Carolina]
Museum of African American Art, Los Angeles
National Archives [Washington, DC]
National Archives, Southwest Region [Fort Worth, Texas]
Newberry Library, Chicago
North Carolina State Archives [Raleigh, North Carolina]
Northern Arizona University, Cline Library [Flagstaff, Arizona]
Penn State Archives [University Park, Pennsylvania]
Pennsylvania State Archives [Harrisburg, Pennsylvania]
Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C
Railroad House, Sanford, North Carolina
Railroad Museum of Pennsylvania [Strasburg, Pennsylvania]
St. Louis Mercantile Library, University of Missouri, St. Louis
Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, New York Public Library
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C
South Caroliniana Library, University of South Carolina
Spencer Shops [North Carolina]
Tennessee State Library and Archives [Nashville, Tennessee]
Tuskegee Institute. [Tuskegee, Alabama]
Union Pacific Museum Archives [Council Bluffs, Iowa]
Union Pacific Museum [Omaha,Nebraska
U.S. Army Transportation Center, Fort Eustis [Virginia]
University of Louisville, Louisville & Nashville Collection [Norman, Oklahoma]
University of Maryland at College Park
University of Mississippi [University, Mississippi]
University of North Carolina [Ashville, North Carolina]
University of North Carolina. [Chapel Hill, North Carolina]
University of Oklahoma. Western History Collection [Norman, Oklahoma]
University of South Alabama Archives [Mobile, Alabama]
University of South Florida Tampa Library [Tampa, Florida]
University of South Mississippi [Hattiesburg, Mississippi]
University of Southwestern Louisiana [Lafayette, Louisiana]
Valley Museum [Black Mountain, North Carolina]
Virginia Historical Society [Richmond, Virginia]
Virginia Museum of Transportation [Roanoke, Virginia]
Virginia Polytechnic [Blacksburg, Virginia]
Western Historical Manuscript Collection [Columbia, Missouri
Western Railway Museum [Suisun City, California]
Wilmington Railroad Museum
Series 6: Miscellaneous
Federal Bureau of Investigation, copies of correspondence and surveillance material on Luis Morones, and the private cars "Lolita" and "Hidalgo," 1921-1944
"Is there life after Milwaukee?" drafts, originals
"Is there life after Milwaukee?" research material
"The African American railroad experience." 1994
Slide indexes for lecture and slide presentations
"Box cars on my mind"
Slide carousels of 35 mm slides