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Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railroad Company Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WHC-M-703

Scope and Contents

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Corporate records arranged in five functional sub-groups of executive files; legal files; engineering records; property accounting; and real estate and industrial development records. Record series of the executive sub-group include minutes (1905-1915, 1947-1975); annual reports (1884-1908, 1915-1932, 1941, 1948-1975); subject files (1900-1984); monthly letters to the Board of Directors (1921-1972); correspondence (1913-1976); corporate files of associated railroads (1910-1975); liquidation files (1968-1984); and stock ledgers (1853-1864; 1906-1933). In the legal sub-group are: subject files (ca. 1925-1979); correspondence (1969-1976); contracts (1900-1910, 1930, 1950-1960); merger files-Union Pacific (1963-1975); merger files-other railroads (1920-1980); litigation files (1830-1960); legislation files-state level (1908-1920); and liquidation files (1975-1984). The Engineering sub-group consists of project files (1890-1975); graphics, which include maps, tables, station blueprints, track layouts, bridges, engines and cars, total-system diagrams, and statistical charts (ca. 1890-1980); structural notes (1916-1917); and capital expenditures (1840-1941, 1947, 1966-1968). In the property accounting sub-group are grand summaries (1942-1972); valuations (1915-1981); money control files (1903-1904, 1935-1942); original cost data files (1934-1941); general balance sheet statements (1959-1964); and revenues and expenditure files (1902-1903, 1928-1944). The real estate and industrial development records sub-group includes: real estate sales files (1937-1974); abstracts of title (1859-1902, 1911-1931); industrial area files (1956-1977); lease records (1902-1925); quit claim deeds and tax records (1890-1907); land contracts (1941-1943); and the station master series (1979). Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad Photograph Collection also in repository..

Dates

  • Creation: 1853-1984

Creator

Restrictions on Access

Available for public access.

Extent

520 Cubic Feet (520 ft.)

Language of Materials

English

Ownership and Custodial History

Purchased from Scott Petersen.

Immediate Source of Acquisition

Records: Source of acquisition--Petersen, Scott. Method of acquisition--Purchase; Date of acquisition--1986.

Description rules
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Repository Details

Part of the Western History Collections Repository

Contact:
630 Parrington Oval
Room 300
Norman Oklahoma 73019 United States