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Long Island Rail Road early property records
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.
Long Island Rail Road real estate collection
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.
Lonto-Watson collection
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.
Miss Subways posters
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.
New York City Transit Photographic Unit collection
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.
Peter Derrick collection
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.
Poetry in Motion car cards
Ralph Curcio slides
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.
Robert LaMay collection
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.
Sprague library collection
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.
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