Interborough Rapid Transit Company

Scope and Contents From the Collection: The Contract Books Collection is a series of approximately 400 discrete volumes (and numerous duplicates) depicting the construction, modification, modernization, and rehabilitation of routes, stations, and rail facilities built and operated by the IRT, BMT, and IND systems. Contracts document the lifespans of the New York City subway system’s various routes, from their original construction under the Dual Contracts Era and numerous platform extensions effected mid-century, to installation...

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Photographs of elevated railroad services and structures, dating from the era of their construction to that of their retirement and demolition.

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The Eugene Casey tunneling collection contains documents reflecting the history of tunneling in North America and around the world. Materials include documents describing tunneling methods and construction, early subway construction photographs, the building of the 63rd Street Tunnel, over 100 photographs documenting the Hudson & Manhattan Railroad Tube, and records relating to the construction of the Holland Tunnel, including signed reports by Clifford Milburn Holland.

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Photographic prints showing trolleys in the New York metropolitan area, as operated by New York Railways and the Third Avenue Railway System in Manhattan and the Bronx, and various Brooklyn, Queens and Long Island trolleys lines, as well as slides and films of trolleys in other cities and countries, and related ephemera, including tickets, transfers, and publications.

Scope and Contents From the Collection: The Contract Books Collection is a series of approximately 400 discrete volumes (and numerous duplicates) depicting the construction, modification, modernization, and rehabilitation of routes, stations, and rail facilities built and operated by the IRT, BMT, and IND systems. Contracts document the lifespans of the New York City subway system’s various routes, from their original construction under the Dual Contracts Era and numerous platform extensions effected mid-century, to installation...

Scope and Contents From the Collection: The Contract Books Collection is a series of approximately 400 discrete volumes (and numerous duplicates) depicting the construction, modification, modernization, and rehabilitation of routes, stations, and rail facilities built and operated by the IRT, BMT, and IND systems. Contracts document the lifespans of the New York City subway system’s various routes, from their original construction under the Dual Contracts Era and numerous platform extensions effected mid-century, to installation...

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The Jay Street drawings and prints contains technical and engineering drawings documenting the construction, rehabilitation, maintenance, and power infrastructure of New York City’s surface transit, elevated railroad, and subway facilities and services from the 1880s through the 1970s.

Scope and Contents From the Collection: The Contract Books Collection is a series of approximately 400 discrete volumes (and numerous duplicates) depicting the construction, modification, modernization, and rehabilitation of routes, stations, and rail facilities built and operated by the IRT, BMT, and IND systems. Contracts document the lifespans of the New York City subway system’s various routes, from their original construction under the Dual Contracts Era and numerous platform extensions effected mid-century, to installation...