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Long Island Rail Road early property records

 Series
Identifier: 2019.43
Abstract

The Long Island Rail Road early property records contains 18 binders of land maps and 3 binders of typed and hand-written real estate records documenting the development of the Long Island Rail Road, the property acquisitions and legal transactions of the Long Island Rail Road Company (and other early railroad companies in New York), and the landscape of property owners on Long Island in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

Dates: 1836 - 1936; Majority of material found within 1836 - 1904

Long Island Rail Road real estate collection

 Sub-Fonds
Identifier: 2016.1
Abstract

This collection contains documents, drawings, books and digital material pertaining to the Long Island Rail Road Real Estate Division. These materials pertain to capital projects or real estate as it pertains to the Long Island Rail Road.

Dates: 1930 - 1980; Majority of material found within 1960 - 1975

Lonto-Watson collection

 Collection
Identifier: 2010.20
Abstract

The Lonto-Watson collection contains albums, scrapbooks, photographs, negatives, documents, ephemera, and books related to New York City transportation such as horse cars, cable cars, trolleys, elevated railroads, and subways, as well as transportation systems domestic and foreign, and New York City architecture.

Dates: 1836 - 2009; Majority of material found within 1950 - 1999

Miss Subways posters

 Collection
Identifier: XX.2018.11; 2008.38; 2015.29
Abstract

The Miss Subways poster collection consists of car cards created in conjunction with the Miss Subways contest, which spanned from 1941 to 1976, as well as car cards produced for the Ms. Subways contest coordinated by the New York Post in 2004.

Dates: 1965 - 2004; Majority of material found within 1965 - 1976

New York City Transit Photographic Unit collection

 Collection
Identifier: 2013.12
Abstract

Photographic materials depicting routine transit operations and technical facilities for NYCT surface and subway services both on-site and within administrative departments, as captured by the agency’s Photographic Unit.

Dates: 1898 - 2011; Majority of material found within 1966 - 2004

Peter Derrick collection

 Sub-Series
Identifier: 2018.33
Abstract

Memoranda, reports, and bound publications concerning administrative, economic, sociological, and technical aspects of public transportation in the New York metropolitan region, collected or created by Peter Derrick during the course of his employment at the New York State Senate and MTA, and deriving from his ongoing work as a transportation planning author, educator, and scholar.

Dates: 1872 - 2015; Majority of material found within 1966 - 1998

Poetry in Motion car cards

 Collection
Identifier: 2005.26, 2006.56, 2008.3, 2012.44-XX.2017.42; 2018.1
Abstract Car cards, printed materials, and color slides displaying and promoting the Poetry in Motion program launched by the New York City Transit Authority in 1992 in collaboration with the Poetry Society of America. Championed by Alan F. Kiepper, NYCT President from 1990-1996, the program was overseen by the Metropolitan Transportation Authority Corporate Communications Department, under the leadership of Peter Walsh and Neil Neches; it was subsequently managed by MTA Marketing &...
Dates: 1992 - 2018; Majority of material found within 1992 - 2018

Ralph Curcio slides

 Collection
Identifier: 2016.12
Abstract

Ralph Curcio (1949-2012) was an employee of the Times of Trenton for over 40 years, taking on many roles as his career progressed. He had a lifelong love of trains and trolley cars, and often spent his vacations photographing them. This collection is approximately 2561 chromes of New York City Subway revenue and work cars, stations, and yards. Also included are photographs of many fan trips on vintage rolling stock, and LIRR and Metro-North commuter rail.

Dates: 1976 - 2006; Majority of material found within 1976 - 1980; Majority of material found within 1995 - 2005

Robert LaMay collection

 Item
Identifier: 2012.31
Abstract

The Robert LaMay Collection consists of approximately 500 small-format snapshot photos, as well as approximately 200 color slides, depicting the New York Metropolitan area railroads and rapid transit, the bulk of which is dated between 1938 and 1962. Also in the collection are over 1,500 photographs, many with corresponding negatives, of railroad and rapid transit lines in other cities throughout the United States.

Dates: 1905 - 1990; Majority of material found within 1938 - 1962

Sprague library collection

 Collection
Identifier: 2013.53
Abstract

Assorted drawings, maps, documents, photographs and signage created by or pertaining to the MTA, its predecessor agencies and various railroads, collected by or donated to members of the Electric Railroaders’ Association and stored in that association’s Frank Julian Sprague Memorial Library, located in Grand Central Terminal from the early 1980s until 2014.

Dates: 1891 - 1991; Majority of material found within 1920 - 1959

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Archives and Reading Room 18
Gabrielle Shubert Research Center 3
 
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Color photographs 5
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Elevated railroads 5
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Street-railroads--Design and construction 4
Black-and-white slides 3
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Beauty contestants–New York (State)–New York–Pictorial works 2
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Car barns 2
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Construction equipment 2
Depots 2
Electric substations–Design and constructions 2
Grand Central Terminal 2
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Horse-drawn omnibuses–New York (State)–New York 2
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Motormen 2
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Pamphlets 2
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Railroad Yards—New York (State)—New York 2
Railroad passenger cars 2
Railroad shops & yards 2
Railroad stations–Design and construction 2
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63rd Street Tunnel (New York, N.Y.) 1
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Brooklyn Bridge (New York, N.Y.) 1
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Bus drivers–New York (State)–Long Island 1
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Bus route maps 1
Bus terminals 1
Buses—Maintenance and repair 1
Cable cars 1
Cars -- Interior Views 1
Catenary 1
Central Park (New York, N.Y.) 1
Ceremonies 1
Churches 1
City Hall Station (retired) (IRT Lexington Avenue Line) 1
Clippings (information artifacts) 1
Coal 1
Coal ash sites 1
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Commercial art--United States--20th century 1
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Coney Island Yard (BMT) 1
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Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company 5
Long Island Rail Road 5
Interborough Rapid Transit Company 4
Brooklyn Manhattan Transit Company 3
Brooklyn and Queens Transit Corporation 3
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New York (N.Y.) Board of Transportation 3
New York (State). Metropolitan Transportation Authority 3
New York City Transit Authority 3
Brooklyn City Rail Road Company 2
Brooklyn Heights Railroad 2
J. G. Brill Company 2
John Stephenson Company 2
Kiepper, Alan 2
Manhattan Railway Company 2
New York Subways Advertising Company 2
Powers, John Robert 2
St. Louis Car Company 2
Stangl, Peter 2
Watson, Edward B. 2
A.S. Seer Print 1
Albert B. King, Printer 1
Algoma Central and Hudson Bay Railway and Navigation Company 1
American Car and Foundry Company 1
American National Bank of New York 1
American Screw Company of Providence 1
American Unitarian Association 1
Arverne Improvement Company 1
Atlantic Avenue Railroad Company 1
Babylon Railroad 1
Baird, Howard C. 1
Belt Line Railway Corporation 1
Bousbib, Ari 1
Brackenridge, J.C. 1
Bratton, William J. 1
Broadway Savings Institution 1
Brooklyn Elevated Railroad 1
Brooklyn Union Elevated Railroad Company 1
Brooklyn and Jamaica Railroad Company 1
Brooklyn and Montauk Railroad Company 1
Brooklyn, Bath and West End Railroad Company 1
Budd Car Co. 1
Bush Terminal Railroad Company 1
Casey, Eugene F. 1
Central Railroad Company of Long Island 1
Central Trust Company of New York 1
Chicago Transit Authority 1
Coker, H.L. 1
Collin, D.R. 1
Corbin Banking Company 1
Coumerilh Gold Mining and Milling Company 1
Crabbs, C.L. 1
Craven, Alfred Wingate, 1810-1879 1
Craven, Macdonough 1
Cuomo, Mario, M., 1932-2015 1
Deer Creek Gold Mining and Milling Company 1
Derrick, Peter, 1944- 1
Dinkins, David N. 1
Dry Dock, East Broadway and Battery Rail Road Company 1
East River Ferry Company 1
East River Savings Institution 1
Ehrenhalt, Samuel M. 1
Eighth Avenue Railroad Company 1
Equitable Life Assurance Society 1
Evening Post Job Printing House, New York 1
Fahys Watch Case Company 1
Fifth Avenue Coach Company 1
Flushing Railroad Company 1
Flushing and North Side Railroad Company 1
Flushing and Woodside Railroad Company 1
Flushing, North Shore & Central Railroad Company 1
Freeman, Milton Harvey 1
Freeport Railroad 1
Gardiner, F.W. 1
Gardner, Fiona 1
Gilbert Elevated Railway Company 1
Giuliani, Rudolph W. 1
Glen Cove Mutual Insurance Company 1
Glen Cove Railroad 1
Glendale and East River Railroad Company 1
Great Neck and Port Washington Railroad Company 1
Grudzinski, Al, 1917-2006 1
Guaranty Trust Company 1
Gunn, David L., 1937 1
Hackley School 1
Hagerman Land Company 1
Haikalis, George 1
Harway Dye Wood & Extract Manufacturing Company 1
Hempstead Bus Corporation 1
Hermalyn, Gary 1
Higginbotham, William 1
Holland, Clifford Milburn, 1883-1924 1
Hood, Clifton 1
Hudson Rapid Transit Corporation 1
Hudson and Manhattan Railroad Company 1
Humphries, William 1
Independent Rapid Transit Railroad 1
Jamaica Central Railways 1
Joseph Fahys & Co. 1
Joy Steamship Company 1
Kings County Gas and Illuminating Company 1
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