GREAT NORTHERN RAILWAY COMPANY (U.S.). TRAFFIC DEPARTMENT:

An Inventory of Its Records at the Minnesota Historical Society

Manuscripts Collection

OVERVIEW


	Creator:	Great Northern Railway Company (U.S.). Traffic Department, creator.
	Title:	Traffic Department records. Great Northern Railway corporate records.
	Dates:	1898-1951.
	Language:	Materials in English.
	Abstract:	Several series of correspondence and subject files and a volume (1898-1899) of monthly commission statements documenting work of the Great Northern administrative department responsible for developing and managing the railway's freight and passenger traffic.
	Quantity:	59.5 cubic feet (59 boxes).
	Location:	See Detailed Description for shelf locations.

File 82-22, Timecard The various subject files of the vice president-traffic (1912-1951) contain information on traffic advertising and promotion, relations with passengers and shippers, special trains and tours, the promotion of Glacier National Park and other tourist destinations, the operation of the department during the period (1918-1921) of federal control, and the operation (1904-1930) of the railway's express service subsidiary. The files also contain some statistical data on traffic volume.

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ARRANGEMENT

These documents are organized into the following sections:


	Vice President - Traffic
		Subject Files
		Glacier National Park Subject Files
		United States Railroad Administration Subject Files
	Monthly Statements of Commissions Paid

	Great Northern Express Company Subject Files

	Progress Report to Shippers

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ADMINISTRATIVE INFORMATION

Availability:

The collection is open for research use.

Preferred Citation:

[Indicate the cited item and/or series here]. Traffic Department Records. Great Northern Railway Corporate Records. Minnesota Historical Society.

See the Chicago Manual of Style for additional examples.

Accession Information:

Accession numbers: 2133; 5044; 5045; 5072; 5073; 5074; 5075; 5076; 5077; 5078; 5079; 5080; 5081; 5082; 5083; 5084; 5085; 5086; 5087; 5088; 5089; 5090; 5091; 5092; 5093; 5094; 5095; 5096; 5097; 5098; 5099; 5100; 5101; 5102; 5103; 5104; 5105; 5106; 5107; 5108

Processing Information:

Catalog ID number: 990017200160104294

Work on the Great Northern railway company records was supported with funds by the Northwest Area Foundation, the Grotto Foundation, and the Jerome Foundation.

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DETAILED DESCRIPTION

VICE PRESIDENT - TRAFFIC

Subject Files

Location

Box

133.H.12.1B

File No. 5. General Agricultural Development Agent, 1930-1940. 2 folders.

File No. 56. Regulations covering handling of railroad business mail, 1932-1944.

File No. 56-1. Zone numbers to facilitate the distribution of United States Mail by carrier routes, 1943-1944.

File No. 57. Bunker Hill Smelter, 1933-1943.

Passenger train service:

File No. 71-3. Stopping passenger trains: emergency requests, 1944-1947.

Location

Box

133.H.12.2F

File No. 71-4. Lewistown Chamber of Commerce: Request for increased passenger train service, 1930-1938.

File No. 71-6. Sioux City to Willmar, 1938.

File No. 71-7. Lake Minnetonka, 1920-1943. 2 folders.

File No. 71-9. Special trains, 1920-1930, 1944-1951. 8 folders.

File No. 71-9-1. Special train: Bill of Rights Exhibition Tour of the Department of Justice; The Freedom Train, 1947-1948.

Location

Box

133.H.12.3B

File No. 71-9-2. Minnesota Historical Society: Territorial Centennial, 1947-1948.

File No. 71-9-3. Special Train: University of Minnesota Football Team, 1948.

File No. 71-9-5. General Electric Company Special Exhibit Train: More Power to America Special, 1951.

File No. 71-10. Billings & Glacier Park, 1924-1942. 2 folders.

File No. 71-11. Running Oriental Limited Trains 1 and 2 between Chicago and Tacoma, 1920-1930.

File No. 71-19-1. Passenger Revenues of Railways comprising the T-CPA and WPA, 1948-1954. 2 folders.

File No. 71-20. Passenger equipment, 1939-1950. 2 folders.

Location

Box

133.H.12.4F

File No. 71-20. Passenger equipment, 1939-1950. 2 folders.

File No. 71-20-1. TALGO train, 1949.

File No. 71-21-2. Pullman Car & Manufacturing Company: air conditioning and cooling of cars, 1931-1934, 1947-1948. 2 folders.

File No. 71-21-3. Pullman Coach: Sleeper, 1940-1942.

File No. 71-21-5. The Pullman Company: Car Earnings, Great Northern Railway, 1940-1949.

File No. 71-37. Seattle and Portland, 1940-1946.

Location

Box

133.H.12.5B

File No. 71-38. Trains 33-34: Duluth-Grand Forks, 1942-1949.

File No. 71-42. Local train services between Hillyard and Appleyard, and Wenatchee and Mansfield, 1938.

File No. 71-55-1. Streamlined Trains Nos. 29 and 30 between St. Paul and Fargo, North Dakota, 1945.

File No. 71-56. Winnipeg Limited: Trains 7 and 8, 1943-1947.

File No. 71-56-1. Streamlined Nos. 7 and 8: Winnipeg Limited between St. Paul and Winnipeg, 1945.

File No. 71-59-3. Streamlined Trains between St. Paul and Duluth: Nos. 19, 20, 23, and 24, 1945.

File No. 71-61. Grenora Branch, 1949.

File No. 71-64. Handling express cars and passenger train freight carloads in passenger trains, 1942-1944.

File No. 71-65. St. Paul-Aberdeen Sleeper, 1947.

File No. 71-76. Chicago, Burlington & Quincy handling a Yellowstone Park car for account of the Northern Pacific Railway on Q, No. 52, Oriental Limited Chicago to St. Paul, 1922-1927.

File No. 71-77. Union Pacific Railway shortening running time their train No. 18, Portland, Oregon to Chicago. Question reducing the running time of "Oriental Limited" No. 2, 1922-1929.

File No. 71-94. Stopping Train 1 and 2, 1932-1944.

File No. 71-100. Farmers Grain & Shipping Company Line, 1930-1945.

File No. 71-105. Klamath Falls Line, 1932-1944.

File No. 71-107. Empire Builder, 1929-1949. 3 folders.

Location

Box

133.H.12.6F

File No. 71-107. Empire Builder, 1929-1949. 3 folders.

File No. 71-107. New Oriental Limited Nos. 3 and 4, 1946-1948. 2 folders.

File No. 71-107-1. Empire Builder: performance on Chicago, Burlington & Quincy, 1940-1947. 2 folders.

File No. 71-107-2. Stopping Empire Builder at Moorhead, 1929-1941.

File No. 71-107-3. Empire Builder: Observation Cars, 1940-1941.

Location

Box

133.H.12.7B

File No. 71-108. Saco-Turner Line, 1930-1932.

File No. 71-109. Fall and Winter Schedule, 1931-1938.

File No. 71-110. Seattle and Vancouver, 1939-1948.

File No. 71-112. Smoking in observation cars, 1930-1940.

File No. 71-113. Spokane and Coeur d'Alene-Palouse, 1941.

File No. 71-114. Schedules for pooling passenger train service between Chicago-Twin Cities and Seattle-Tacoma-Portland, 1931-1941, 1946. 4 folders.

File No. 71-116. Zephyrs and Hiawatha, 1939-1944.

Location

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133.H.12.8F

File No. 71-118. Fargo and Grand Forks sleeping car service, 1943-1946.

File No. 71-119. Post-war service: New Empire Builder, 1942-1946. 2 folders.

File No. 71-119-2. Empire Builder: report on condition of equipment; A. A. Hughes, Chicago, 1948-1949. 2 folders.

File No. 71-120. Tacoma sleeping car service, 1938-1946.

File No. 71-121. Mess Cars, 1943.

File No. 72-192. Enlargement Minneapolis passenger station ticket office, 1920-1921.

File No. 72-197. Devils Lake, North Dakota: Lighting Station Platform; Stockyards Towner, North Dakota, 1931-1941.

File No. 72-668. Conrad, Montana facilities, 1932-1946.

File No. 72-994. St. Paul Post Office, 1933-1940.

Includes two pictures of a lift bridge: Ballard Bridge, Seattle.

File No. 81. Tail Lights on passenger trains, 1948.

Advertising:

File No. 82. General file, 1920-1951. 2 folders.

Location

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133.H.12.9B

File No. 82. General file, 1920-1951. 4 folders.

Location

Box

133.H.12.10F

File No. 82. General file, 1920-1951. 10 folders.

Location

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133.H.13.1B

File No. 82. General file, 1920-1951.

File No. 82-1. Budget, 1920.

File No. 82-2. Oregon Voter, 1920-1947. 2 folders.

File No. 82-4. Special Editions of Newspapers, 1920-1937, 1943-1948. 4 folders.

File No. 82-4-1. Denver Post and Denver Rocky Mountain News: Special Editions, 1948.

File No. 82-6. Budget, 1921, 1920.

File No. 82-7. Joint campaign with Chicago, Burlington & Quincy: staff meetings, 1944.

File No. 82-8. Bert Lennon scheme, 1921.

File No. 82-9. Washington Herald, 1921.

File No. 82-12. Advertising in the Orient, 1921-1929.

File No. 82-13. Budget, 1922, 1921-1925.

Location

Box

133.H.13.2F

File No. 82-14. Contract with newspapers, 1922-1928.

File No. 82-15. Timetables and folders, 1922-1930, 1944-1947. 2 folders.

File No. 82-16. Doremus & Company, 1922-1925.

File No. 82-17. Campaign conducted jointly by Q, Great Northern and Northern Pacific, 1922-1925.

File No. 82-18. Budget, 1922-1929.

File No. 82-19. Calendars, 1923-1929.

File No. 82-20. McJunkin Agency, 1924-1929.

File No. 82-21. New locomotives, 1924.

File No. 82-22. New Oriental Limited, 1924.

File No. 82-22-1. Exhibition: New Oriental Limited, William Crooks and Pullman Sleeper No. 9, 1924-1925.

File No. 82-22-2. Publisher's edition New Oriental Limited, 1924.

File No. 82-22-3. Slogan Contest New Oriental Limited, 1924.

File No. 82-23. Issuance of mileage books in the state of Montana in exchange for advertising, 1924.

Location

Box

133.H.13.3B

File No. 82-25. Great Northern Semaphore, 1924-1936.

File No. 82-26. Scenic Action Pictures, 1924-1926.

File No. 82-27. The Great Northern Goat, 1929-1942. 2 folders.

File No. 82-28. Blotters, 1930-1945.

File No. 82-30. Use of Mr. James J. Hill's name and picture in Great Northern advertising, 1929-1930.

File No. 82-36. Public relations, 1936-1943.

File No. 82-38. Erwin, Wasey & Company, Inc., 1939-1941.

File No. 82-39. Batten, Barton, Durstine & Osborne, Inc., 1940-1945.

File No. 82-41. Commercial West, 1934-1942.

File No. 82-42. Emblems and Goat Trade Mark, 1939-1942.

File No. 82-43. Spot Radio, 1941-1942.

File No. 82-44. Oil and gas publications, 1937-1942.

File No. 82-46. Coordinated advertising, 1943.

File No. 85. Magazine publications: religious literature on parlor and observation cars, 1920-1930.

File No. 97. Glacier National Park: purchases, 1915-1934. 2 folders.

Location

Box

133.H.13.4F

File No. 106. Glacier National Park: special parties booked for park; prominent park visitors, 1925-1930.

File No. 134. Panama Canal, 1928-1933. 2 folders.

File No. 137-5. Passenger fares - Short Line fares: Shasta Arbitrary, ICC Docket 24,956, 1930-1938.

File No. 137-9. Passenger fares: coach and intermediate, 1931-1932.

File No. 139. Playing cards, 1920-1928.

File No. 140. Sleeping cars, 1932-1952. 5 folders.

Location

Box

133.H.13.5B

File No. 142. Canadian Freight Association, 1935-1939.

File No. 145. United States Chamber of Commerce, 1931-1944. 3 folders.

File No. 153. Dining cars, 1920-1941. 3 folders.

File No. 153-2. Dining cars: Table D'Hote Meal Service on Principal Trains, 1920-1931.

File No. 153-3. Dining cars: menu cards, 1921-1928, 1930-1933. 2 folders.

File No. 154. National Apple Show, Spokane, Washington, 1918.

File No. 156. Central Coal & Coke Company; Oregon American Lumber Company, 1930-1935.

Location

Box

133.H.13.6F

File No. 157. Glacier National Park: Tourist Camps; Drive Yourself Cars, 1929-1932.

File No. 158. Glacier National Park: Waterton Lakes Park, 1925-1931. 2 folders.

File No. 161. Sleeping car service between Yellowstone Park and Glacier Park, 1920-1939.

File No. 168. American Association Freight Agents and American Association of Freight Traffic Officers, 1920-1943.

File No. 180-5. Evans Auto Loader, 1940-1946.

Location

Box

133.H.13.7B

File No. 188. Requests for donations and contributions, 1920-1931, 1941-1945. 3 folders.

File No. 188-1. Canadian Forestry Association, 1930-1945.

Location

Box

133.H.13.8F

File No. 192. Crop reports, 1920-1941. 8 folders.

Location

Box

133.H.13.9B

File No. 193-3. Consolidated ticket office at Minneapolis, 1930-1934.

File No. 193-4. Seattle consolidated ticket office, 1933-1935.

File No. 193-5. Spokane consolidated ticket office, 1929-1935.

File No. 193-10. Tacoma, City ticket office, 1933-1935.

File No. 193-11. Portland consolidated ticket office, 1931-1941.

File No. 206-70. Coal: Better Home Heating, Inc.; Bituminous Coal Research, Inc., 1942-1944.

File No. 207. Chamber of Commerce, Board of Trade, Clubs, Associations, etc., 1941-1944.

File No. 207-1. San Francisco Chamber of Commerce, 1932-1945.

File No. 207-2. Duluth Chamber of Commerce, 1932-1945.

File No. 208. Republican National Convention, June 8, 1920.

File No. 210. Stevedore Situation: Seattle Water Front, 1920.

File No. 211. Minneapolis Civic and Commerce Association Tours, 1932-1941.

File No. 212. Saint Paul Association: Trade Tours, 1920-1926.

File No. 216. United States Shipping Board: Ten New Passenger Steamers; Pacific Ocean Oriental Service, 1919-1933.

File No. 220. Minnesota National Guard, 1920-1940. 2 folders.

File No. 224. Magnesite: shipments from Chewelah and Valley, Washington, 1931-1946.

File No. 225. Cigars and cigarettes on dining and buffet cars, 1932-1935.

File No. 244. Montana State Fair, Helena, 1920-1947. 2 folders.

Apples:

File No. 246-8. Storage in transit, 1941-1946.

Location

Box

133.H.13.10F

File No. 246-11. Apple Statement, 1921-1930.

File No. 246-26. National apple week, 1923-1946. 2 folders.

File No. 246-27. Wenatchee Valley Traffic Association Bulletins, 1927-1931.

File No. 246-32. For health, 1926-1930.

Location

Box

133.H.14.1B

File No. 246-43. Advertising, 1935-1944.

File No. 247. Boarding cars and camps, 1920-1929.

File No. 254. Irrigation of two million acres: Columbia Basin, Central Washington, 1920-1928.

File No. 258. Saint Paul Union Depot, 1920-1930.

File No. 276. Congressional Committee on Appropriations, 1920-1932.

File No. 278-3. Alaska: Mount McKinley Tourist & Transportation Company, Inc., McKinley Park, Alaska, 1930-1942.

File No. 279. Statement of ore and concentrates forwarded in Montana, 1920-1930.

File No. 282. Grand Forks, North Dakota Fair: Northwest Turkey Show, 1929-1941.

File No. 290-1. Northland Transportation Company, 1928-1929.

File No. 290-32-2. Passengers carried on Great Northern Bus Lines in Montana, 1935-1943.

File No. 316. Rain-maker: Charles M. Hatfield, 1920.

File No. 319. Immigration, 1920-1940. 2 folders.

Location

Box

133.H.14.2F

File No. 319. Immigration, 1920-1940. 2 folders.

File No. 319-1. Immigration Department Publicity, 1920-1935.

File No. 319-2. Immigration: possibility of securing Hollanders to locate along Great Northern Railway, 1930-1931.

File No. 319-5. Dairy activities, 1930-1934.

File No. 319-6. Farm relief, 1927-1932.

File No. 319-10. Immigration: agricultural exhibits, 1925-1941.

Location

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133.H.14.3B

File No. 319-10. Immigration: agricultural exhibits, 1925-1941.

File No. 319-12. Immigration: activities of Traveling Immigration and Agricultural Development Agents, 1927-1934. 2 folders.

File No. 319-13. Immigration: Mennonites, 1927-1929.

File No. 319-16. Victory Gardens, 1943-1945.

File No. 329. Minnesota State Fair, 1920-1944. 2 folders.

File No. 367-2. Upper Whitestone Irrigation Project, 1921-1937.

File No. 398. International Live Stock Exposition, Chicago, Illinois; International Hay and Grain Show, 1919-1934.

Location

Box

133.H.14.4F

File No. 423. Relief in drought stricken areas, 1920-1936. 7 folders.

Location

Box

133.H.14.5B

File No. 448. Seattle-Australia Line, 1920-1935.

File No. 459. Employment: Mr. L. D. Kitchell, Glacier Park Lecturer, 1920-1930.

File No. 468. Immigrant Bureau, 1920-1930.

File No. 478. Railroad Week, 1920-1936.

File No. 488. Handling of baggage, 1920-1931.

File No. 493. Statement showing cars of emigrant movables forwarded, 1920-1930.

File No. 528. China Relief Fund, 1921-1931.

File No. 531. Near East Relief, 1921-1929.

File No. 538. North Dakota Immigration Commission, 1921-1930.

File No. 551. The Saturday Evening Post: "Salesmanship in Transportation," by Edward Hungerford, 1921-1933.

File No. 558. Monthly Report [Canadian], 1928-1935.

File No. 603. Tonnage interchanged at Twin Cities locations, 1921-1930.

File No. 641. Home Market Week, 1921-1929.

File No. 644. Names of stations changed, 1921-1932.

File No. 656. Old fashioned stage coach presented to Great Northern Railway by Mr. Roe Emery, 1921-1925.

Location

Box

133.H.14.6F

File No. 677. Stehekin Hotel, 1920-1922.

File No. 678. Billy Whiskers Books: Frances Trego Montgomery, 1921.

File No. 681. Glacier Park Spring Water on dining cars, 1921.

File No. 685. Dual Grading System of Grain in the State of Minnesota, 1921.

File No. 686. W. N. Horwitz: Photographs of Glacier Park, 1921.

File No. 690. Fruit Train schedules, 1921-1931.

File No. 693. Zone of Plenty Booklets, 1932-1939.

File No. 716. Maps, 1930-1940.

File No. 728. American Legion Conventions, 1921-1934.

File No. 738. Montana Dude Ranches, 1921-1932.

File No. 773. National Tractor Show, 1921-1927.

File No. 783. Electrification of Railroads, 1922-1930.

File No. 791. Box Car Ventilation, by Investigators Vane G. Gibson and Herbert Graff, 1922.

File No. 792-4. Proposed extension Great Northern Railway: Huron to Chamberlain, South Dakota, 1927-1930.

File No. 796. Statement showing hotel, restaurant and news service statistics, 1924-1935.

File No. 799. National Editorial Association Annual Meetings, 1921-1931.

File No. 811. Glacier Trail Association, 1921-1924.

File No. 815. Pacific Northwest Potato Show, Spokane, Washington, 1921-1928.

File No. 823. Beef racks in refrigerator cars, 1921.

File No. 849. Northwest Lumberman's Association Convention, Seattle, 1922-1925.

File No. 846. Retail Grocer's Convention, 1922-1931.

File No. 851. American Legion Convention, Virginia, Minnesota, 1922.

File No. 853. Great Lakes Seaway, 1922-1929.

File No. 864. National Foreign Trade Convention, 1922-1929.

Location

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133.H.14.7B

File No. 866. Presidential trips: Harding, Hoover, Roosevelt, 1921-1934. 2 folders.

File No. 880. International Apple Shippers Association Convention, 1922-1930.

File No. 883. Fruit Growers Associations, Fruit and Vegetable Canners; Salmon canners, 1922-1927.

File No. 898. Boys and Girls Summer Camp at Assiniboine, Montana, 1922.

File No. 904. American Fruit and Vegetable Shippers Association, 1921-1931.

File No. 915. New Westminster Southern Railway, 1922-1932.

File No. 916. Scholarships for the State Agricultural College of Washington, 1922-1930.

File No. 918. International Mining Convention, 1922.

Location

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133.H.14.8F

File No. 920. Campaign for the Elimination of Rust through the Eradication of the Common Barberry Bush; Grasshoppers, 1922-1939. 3 folders.

File No. 922. Movement of Special Parties, 1920-1943. 2 folders.

Location

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133.H.14.9B

File No. 922. Movement of Special Parties, 1920-1943. 3 folders.

Location

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133.H.14.10F

File No. 922. Movement of Special Parties, 1920-1943. 5 folders.

Location

Box

133.H.15.1B

File No. 922. Movement of Special Parties, 1920-1943. 6 folders.

Location

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133.H.15.2F

File No. 922. Movement of Special Parties, 1920-1943. 3 folders.

File No. 923. Motion Picture Film: William S. Yale, 1922-1942. 5 folders.

File No. 928. Industrial Directory and Shippers Guide, 1922-1926.

File No. 936. Midland Empire Fair, Billings, Montana, 1922.

File No. 955. Minneapolis passenger station, 1922-1930.

File No. 960. Northern Montana Corn and Potato Show, 1922-1925.

File No. 989. Montana Agricultural College: Demonstration Train, 1923-1930.

File No. 991. Ancient Arabic Order, Nobles of the Mystic Shrine, 1930-1939.

Location

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133.H.15.3B

File No. 994. Printing: Cost of, 1925-1929.

File No. 1000. National Federation of Business and Professional Women's Clubs, 1923-1934.

File No. 1001. Dempsey-Gibbons Fight: Shelby, Montana, July 4, 1923.

File No. 1006. Sororities' Conventions, 1923-1933.

File No. 1015. Census Reports, 1923-1941.

File No. 1016. Knights Templar, 1923-1934.

File No. 1023. Telegraphing, 1923-1940.

File No. 1023-1. Telephones, 1931-1939.

File No. 1024. Public Relations Bureau, 1923-1933. 2 folders.

Location

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133.H.15.4F

File No. 1028. Tours Bureau, 1923-1931.

File No. 1056. Duluth and Superior Bridge: Proposed Tunnel, 1924-1933.

File No. 1065. Spokane Merchants Association Trade Tour, 1924-1933.

File No. 1078. Radio, 1925-1942. 4 folders.

Location

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133.H.15.5B

File No. 1080. The Upper Missouri Historical Expedition, 1925-1933.

File No. 1084. Columbia River Historical Expedition, 1925-1926.

File No. 1127-3. Santa Claus, 1940-1941.

File No. 1142. Davenport Hotel, 1922-1930.

File No. 1151. Organized Passenger Business; Great Northern Tour Bureau, 1929-1935.

File No. 1154. Jayhawker Tours, 1929-1937.

File No. 1184. Hotel greeters, 1930-1939.

File No. 1185. King of Siam; King and Queen of Norway; King and Queen of England, 1930-1939.

File No. 1189. Princeton University, 1928-1933.

File No. 1192. Weather Bureau, 1931.

File No. 1194. 1933 Chicago World's Fair, 1931-1934.

File No. 1227. St. Paul Association of Commerce, 1933-1942.

File No. 1237. National park year, 1934, 1933-1934.

Location

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133.H.15.6F

File No. 1259. World's Fair, New York, 1937-1941.

File No. 1261. St. Paul Winter Sports Carnival, 1937-1941. 2 folders.

File No. 1267. Mount Olympus National Park, 1938.

File No. 1283. University of Washington, 1938-1941.

File No. 1302. Passing of Mr. W. P. Kenney, 1939.

File No. 1317. Cascade National Park, 1939-1941.

File No. 1319. War, 1939-1940. 4 folders.

File No. 1343. Shining Mountain Ranch, 1940-1942.

File No. 1349. National Association of Manufacturers, 1939-1942.

File No. 1841-E. Glacier National Park, 1912.

Location

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133.H.15.7B

File No. 1841-S. Glacier National Park, 1913-1914.

File No. 1841-T. Glacier National Park, 1914.

File No. 1841-W. Glacier National Park, 1914.

File No. 1841-Y. Glacier National Park, 1915.

File No. 1841-Z. Glacier National Park, 1915-1916.

File No. 2235. Larry D. Kitchell's National Lecture Tours advertising Glacier National Park, 1913-1918.

File No. 2266-A. Glacier Park Hotel Company, 1914.

File No. 2266-B. Glacier Park Hotel Company, 1914-1915.

Glacier National Park Subject Files

Subject files including correspondence, memoranda, printed materials, reports, and other items. Miscellaneous subject files related to the promotion and operation of the park, mostly 1912-1931.

Related Material: Additional files, numbered 1841 and 2266, in the Subject Files of the Vice President - Traffic also pertain to Glacier National Park.

Location

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133.I.8.4F

File No. 1. General files, 1928-1939. 2 folders.

File No. 2. National Geographic Society Tour, 1912.

File No. 3. Glidden tour: 1913, 1914.

File No. 4. Transparency Booths, 1912-1914.

File No. 5. John Fery, Artist, 1913-1930.

File No. 6. Cyclojector Art Company, 1913.

File No. 8. Open Top observation cars, 1912-1929.

File No. 9. Glacier Park Spring Water for dining cars, 1913-1917.

File No. 11. Glacier Park Hotel Company, 1916-1931.

File No. 12. Complaints and suggestions, 1915-1931.

File No. 13. Passenger Conductors, 1914-1924.

File No. 14. Arrivals, 1931-1935.

Location

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133.I.8.5B

File No. 16. Hawaiian Musicians and Singers for Great Northern Steamship Company and Glacier National Park, 1915-1917.

File No. 17. Glacier Park Goat Stencil on refrigerators, box cars and other equipment, 1914-1927.

File No. 18. Glacier Park Transportation Company, 1915-1929.

File No. 19. Frank Fair Advertising Scheme, 1915.

File No. 20. World Film Corporation: William A. Brady play to be staged in Glacier National Park, 1915-1916.

File No. 21. Circle Tour Tickets taking in Glacier Park and Yellowstone Park, 1914-1918.

File No. 22. Department of the Interior: National Park Publicity Letter from Mr. Robert S. Yard, 1915-1928.

File No. 24. Fish, 1915-1934.

File No. 25. Lumber Purchases from the Government in the Park, 1915-1916.

File No. 26. Inventory, 1915-1916.

File No. 27. Old dining room on the Dawson Place, 1915.

File No. 28. L. M. Davenport and Party Trip to Park, 1915.

File No. 29. St. Mary's Road: H. J. Clark Collecting Toll, 1915.

File No. 30. Painting signs and buildings in park, 1915-1932.

File No. 31. Insurance, 1915-1931.

File No. 32. Reeves Wild Animal Show, 1915.

File No. 33. Wild flowers for dining cars, 1915-1927.

File No. 35. Discontinuing the Helena Independent, 1915.

File No. 36. Steel Life Boat, 1915-1928.

File No. 37. Threat to close Two Medicine Road; La Brecht and Cook Claim, 1915-1917.

File No. 38. Houston and Conway: Medical Contract, 1915-1931.

File No. 39. Hogs, 1915-1918.

File No. 40. Camps, 1915-1930.

File No. 41. Printing, 1915-1931.

File No. 42. Vegetable gardens, 1915-1928.

File No. 44. Liquor license, 1915-1924.

Location

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133.I.8.6F

File No. 46. Photograph Business, 1915-1934.

File No. 47. Wood and Ice Contracts, 1915-1931.

File No. 48. Payroll, 1915-1931.

File No. 49. St. Mary's Road: Question of Damages to the Indians, 1915.

File No. 50. Report from H. A. Noble: Conference with Mr. Mather, 1916-1927.

File No. 51. Menus: Hotels and Camps, 1915-1917.

File No. 53. Reports on Conditions at the Park, 1915-1916.

File No. 54. Cottages, 1915-1931.

File No. 55. Roads, 1915-1931. 2 folders.

File No. 56. Horse rates, 1915-1926.

Location

Box

133.I.8.7B

File No. 57. Applications for Sites and Permits, 1915-1930.

File No. 58. Telephone lines, 1915-1931.

File No. 59. Dismissal of Bert McKenzie; Report from dining/sleeping car Inspector Keene, 1916.

File No. 60. Free Entertainment; Complementary Trips; Special Rates, 1916-1931.

File No. 61. Wild West Show, 1915-1916.

File No. 62. Barber Shop Concession, 1916.

File No. 63. Brewster Operating Launch on Two Medicine Lake, 1916.

File No. 64. Laundry, 1914-1929.

File No. 70. Proposed Golf Course, 1916-1930.

United States Railroad Administration Subject Files

Correspondence, memoranda, printed materials, reports, and other items almost entirely from 1918-1920, related to passenger and freight traffic on the Great Northern line while under federal control. Includes files on locomotives, spurs and industry tracks, depots, shops, improvements, complaint files, unification files, and labor conditions.

Location

Box

133.F.4.9B

File No. 2. Car shortage, 1918-1920. 5 folders.

Location

Box

133.F.4.10F

File No. 5-1. Fuel requirements: Great Northern, 1918-1920.

File No. 5-4. Carloading: Head of the Lakes, 1918-1919. 2 folders.

File No. 13. Apples: handling, 1919-1920. 2 folders.

File No. 101-126. Stanley-Grenora Line: Railway Mail Service, 1919.

File No. 180. Oriental Limited: Serving Afternoon Tea, 1918.

File No. 184. United States Employment Service, 1918-1919.

File No. 186. St. Paul: new freight depot, 1918-1919.

File No. 186-1. St. Paul: suggestion to re-erect old freight house in new terminal, 1918.

File No. 187. Water supply: Various Points, 1918-1920.

File No. 188. Pullman Company, 1918-1920.

File No. 189. Business Cars, 1918-1920.

File No. 190. American Railway Express, 1918-1920.

File No. 196. Rates on sugar, 1918-1920.

File No. 198. Vancouver, British Columbia: passenger station, 1918-1919.

File No. 201. Fortine, Montana: Roberts Spur Track, 1918.

File No. 204. Ore Cars, 1918-1920.

File No. 208. Nanaimo, British Columbia: Agency, 1917-1918.

File No. 209. Oil stoves, 1918-1919.

File No. 211. Alice, Minnesota: extension of side track, station facilities, 1918.

File No. 212. Washington, Oregon, and British Columbia: ship yards, 1918.

File No. 213. Spokane: New Flour mill [Sperry], 1918.

File No. 215. Spokane and Seattle: closing offices, 1918.

File No. 216. Handcars: equip with gasoline motors for extra gangs, 1918-1920.

File No. 217. Watertown and Sioux Falls Line: snow fence, 1918.

File No. 218. Sioux City, Iowa: Weiser & Lamar Company, request to vacate building, 1918.

File No. 220. Irrigation matters, 1918-1920.

File No. 220-1. Irrigation: Big Bend Project, 1918-1919.

File No. 220-2. Irrigation: Marias River, 1919.

File No. 221. New Westminster, British Columbia: rental of Northern Pacific freight house, 1918-1920.

File No. 226. Superior, Wisconsin: Crossing Agreement with Standard Oil Company, 1915-1918.

File No. 227. Dry Farm and International Irrigation Congresses, 1918-1919.

File No. 232. Everett, Washington: Weyerhaeuser Log Dump Spur, 1918-1919.

File No. 233. Chinook, Montana: coal shed, Imperial Elevator Company, 1918.

File No. 237. Fuel oil, 1918-1919.

File No. 238. Cedar Lake, Minnesota: Old Right of Way on South End, 1918.

Location

Box

133.F.4.11B

File No. 240. Japanese Peace Delegation: Baron Kondo's Party, January 1919, 1918-1919.

File No. 245. Imperial Oil Company, 1918-1919.

File No. 249. Bureau of Explosives, 1918-1920.

File No. 251. Sumas Station, 1919.

File No. 252. Spokane Valley and Northern Railway, 1919.

File No. 255. Mitsui & Company: lease of tank cars, 1919.

File No. 257. Blackfoot and Flathead National Forests: changing boundaries, 1918-1919.

File No. 261. Spokane and Inland Empire Railroad, 1919-1920.

File No. 262. Kalispell, Montana: application to operate bus on old main line, Kalispell to Marion, 1919.

File No. 263. Similkameen, British Columbia: Immigration Service Detention Room, 1919-1920.

File No. 264. Locomotive no. 480: sale to Great Northern Lumber Company, 1919.

File No. 267. Rogers Ballast Cars: purchase by Stephens-Bird Lumber Company, 1919.

File No. 268. Milling in transit, 1919-1920.

File No. 276. Shop mules, 1919.

File No. 279. Service men: count of number returning, 1919.

File No. 281. Automobile truck, 1915-1931.

File No. 286. Vancouver, British Columbia: track changes to eliminate Crossing British Columbia electric tracks, Powell Street, 1919.

File No. 288. Hill City Railway, 1919.

File No. 290. Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Contract: adjustment of valuations covering trackage between St. Paul and Minneapolis, 1919.

File No. 291. Alberta Industrial Development Association, 1919-1920.

File No. 292. Helena, Montana: request Great Northern Railway sell city parcel of land, 1919-1922.

File No. 294. Karnak, North Dakota, 1919.

File No. 295. Kootenai Falls, Montana: investigation of Great Northern lands, A. V. Corry, Engineer, 1919.

File No. 297. Havre: Case of Mrs. J. E. Jennie, Agent, 1921-1924.

File No. 298. Wenatchee: icing refrigerator cars by Columbia Ice and Cold Storage Company, 1919-1920.

File No. 307. Air Brake Instruction Car, 1919.

File No. 308. Linens: dining and sleeping car, 1919.

File No. 311. Cement rates, 1919.

File No. 312. N. Y. K. [Nippon Yusen Kaisha], 1919-1920.

File No. 314. Wenatchee, Washington: cold storage plant and ice manufacturing plant, 1919-1920.

File No. 316. Steamships "Great Northern" and "Northern Pacific", 1919.

File No. 318. Sleeping car reservations, 1918-1919.

File No. 319. Division Headquarters: suggested removal, Clancy to Helena, 1919.

File No. 323. Nelson, British Columbia: telegraph office, 1919.

File No. 327. Cascade Tunnel: electrical operation, 1919-1920.

File No. 328. Superior: Standard Oil Company, purchase of dock property, 1919.

File No. 333. Seattle, Washington: Jackson Street Stores, 1919-1920.

File No. 334. Somers Lumber Company, Somers, Montana, 1919-1922.

File No. 335. Clark System: heating refrigerator cars, 1919.

File No. 336. British Columbia District: Report Coal and Coke Situation, 1919.

File No. 337. Whitefish, Montana: cottages/houses for employees; round house shop with tools, 1919.

File No. 338. Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul: extensions, 1919.

File No. 340. Wenatchee: Federal Ice Refrigerating Company, furnishing ice, 1919-1920.

File No. 341. Old Hopkins Line, 1919-1920.

File No. 342. Theodore Roosevelt International Highway, 1919-1922.

File No. 343. Car records: movement of freight, 1920.

Location

Box

133.F.4.12F

File No. 23. General matters, 1918-1919.

File No. 23-1. General matters, 1918-1920. 3 folders.

File No. 23-2. Cars: unload and release, 1918.

File No. 23-4. Miscellaneous: Office, Agencies, Immigration Department Activities, 1918-1919. 2 folders.

File No. 23-6. Car service: United States Railroad Administration Division of Transportation Rails and Crossties, 1918-1920. 2 folders.

File No. 23-7. Rails and Crossties, 1918-1920. 2 folders.

Locomotives:

File No. 23-8. Miscellaneous, 1918-1920. 4 folders.

Location

Box

133.F.4.13B

File No. 23-8-1. Change oil burn to coal, 1918-1919.

File No. 23-8-2. Use of Priest Flanger, Great Northern, 1918.

File No. 23-8-3. Super heaters, 1918.

File No. 23-8-4. Miscellaneous: King Packing; O'Connor File Doors; Statement of Gasoline; Kerosene Furnished, 1918.

File No. 23-8-5. Mechanical stokers, 1918-1919.

File No. 23-8-6(1). Efficiencies: Committee Reports, 1919.

File No. 23-8-6(2). Leasing, 1918-1919.

File No. 23-8-7. Location air pumps, 1900 Class Great Northern Engine, 1918-1919.

File No. 23-8-9. Violation Inspection Laws, 1918-1920.

File No. 23-8-10. Spokane, Portland, and Seattle, 1919-1920.

File No. 23-8-11. Equipped with automatic stokers, 1919-1920.

File No. 23-8-12. Purchase, 1918-1919.

File No. 23-8-13. Standardized locomotives: broken or defective material, 1919.

File No. 23-8-14. Locomotives and parts: Builders Furnishing Drawings, 1919.

File No. 23-8-15. Classified repairs, 1919-1920.

File No. 23-8-16. Equipment Condition Report, M. D. 32, 1919-1920.

File No. 23-8-17. Condition of Power at Midnite, last day of --, 19--, 1919-1920.

File No. 23-8-18. Report: Shop Output, and Classified Repairs, 1919-1920.

File No. 23-8-20. Available for service October 1, 1918, 1919.

File No. 23-8-22. Storage, 1919.

File No. 23-8-24. Allocation, four Heavy Mikado, 1919-1920.

File No. 23-8-29. Expenses, 1919.

File No. 23-8-36. Use of fuel oil for firing up, 1919.

File No. 23-8-40. Costs, average price fuel, 1919.

File No. 23-8-41. Cost of repairs, passenger, 1919.

File No. 23-8-42. Cost of repairs, freight, 1919.

File No. 23-8-43. Comptroller Statement; Engine House Expenses, Locomotive Miles and Average Cost per Locomotive Mile, 1919.

File No. 23-8-44. Assignment of power, 1918-1920.

File No. 23-8-45. Costs: per ton coal, per barrel oil, 1917-1918.

File No. 23-8-46. Leasing is Heavy Mikados from Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad, 1919-1920.

File No. 23-8-47. Distribution.

File No. 23-8-52. Converting 4-L-2 Engine to oil, 1919.

File No. 23-8-53. Condition of Power MD8 and MD9, 1919-1920.

File No. 23-8-70. Loan of Santa Fe Types from DM&N, 1919-1920.

File No. 23-8-75. 8th Annual Inspection: Report to ICC, 1920.

File No. 23-10. General Order No. 9: Reports on Salaries and Changes, 1918.

File No. 23-11. Trackage: adequacy at industrial plants,, 1918.

File No. 23-12. Statements and Accounts, 1918-1919.

Location

Box

133.F.4.14F

File No. 23-14. Budgets, 1918-1920. 2 folders.

File No. 23-15. Watercraft: owned or controlled, Great Northern, 1918-1920.

File No. 23-16. Federal Control Bill: Great Northern contract with United States, 1918-1919.

File No. 23-18. Circular No. 14: Protection of railroad property and property of shippers, 1918-1920.

File No. 23-18-1. Special Agents Department: arrests and convictions, thefts, 1918-1920.

File No. 23-22. General, 1918-1920.

File No. 23-22-1. Wenatchee: Rock Island Unit, Facilities, Old Colony Spur, 1918.

File No. 23-22-2. Watertown, South Dakota: alley track, 1918-1930. 2 folders.

File No. 23-22-3. Bellingham, Washington: log dump, 1918.

File No. 23-22-4. Sultan Basin: railroad facilities for copper mine, 1918-1919.

File No. 23-22-5. Seattle: Viaduct, Yesler Way, 1919.

File No. 23-22-6. Cut Bank, Montana: improvements, 1918.

File No. 23-:-22-7. St. Paul: Spur Track, United States Bedding,

File No. 23-22-8. Grassmere, Washington: construction of crossing, C. W. Greist, 1918-1919.

File No. 23-22-9. Milaca, Minnesota: construction of depot, 1918-1919.

File No. 23-22-10. Norfolk, North Dakota: highway crossing, 1918.

File No. 23-22-11. North Dakota: siding for lignite mines, 1918.

File No. 23-22-12. Roseau, Minnesota: house track, 1918.

File No. 23-22-13. Seattle, Washington: Express facilities, King Street Station, 1918-1919.

File No. 23-22-14. Grafton, North Dakota: sidewalk improvements, 1918.

File No. 23-22-15. Andover, Minnesota: proposed side track, 1918.

File No. 23-22-16. Frazer, Montana: station facilities, 1919.

File No. 23-22-17. Lakota, North Dakota: Purch, R. W., 1918.

File No. 23-22-18. Seattle, Washington: trackage on Whatcom Avenue, 1918-1919.

File No. 23-22-19. Minneapolis Junction: toilet facilities, 1918.

File No. 23-22-20. St. Paul: street improvements in Lowertown, 1918.

File No. 23-22-21. North Dakota: new coal mine tracks, 1918-1920.

File No. 23-22-22. Grand Forks, North Dakota: Independent Track, International Harvest Company, 1918.

File No. 23-22-23. Minneapolis, Minnesota: Spur Tracks, Pillsbury Flour Mills, 1918-1919.

Location

Box

133.F.5.1B

File No. 23-22-24. Sioux City, Iowa: track connection, proposed new yard, 1918-1920.

File No. 23-22-25. Everett, Washington: street improvements, 1918.

File No. 23-22-26. Hesper, Montana: depot, 1918.

File No. 23-22-27. Grand Rapids, Minnesota: spur tracks, Itasca Cooperage, paper, 1918-1919.

File No. 23-22-28. Avoca, North Dakota: Spur Track, Coal Mines, E. J. Lovejoy, 1918-1919.

File No. 23-22-29. Minneapolis: trackage, Northrup King and Company, 1918-1919.

File No. 23-22-30. Chehalis, Washington: interchange track: Northern Pacific, Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul, 1918.

File No. 23-22-31. Spokane, Washington: street improvements, 1918.

File No. 23-22-32. Belmont, Montana: Painted Robe Coal Company, 1918.

File No. 23-22-33. Broadview, Montana: sidewalk across Right of Way, 4th Street, 1918.

File No. 23-22-34. Oroville, Washington: grade crossing, Main Street, 1918-1919.

File No. 23-22-35. Minneapolis: Washington Avenue Alley Spur, 1918-1919.

File No. 23-22-36. Removal of tracks, 1918-1919.

File No. 23-22-37. Seattle: Seattle Elevated Street Railway Crossing, intersection of Railroad Avenue and Washington Street, 1918.

File No. 23-22-38. Grand Forks, North Dakota: Northern Pacific Contract, joint use of tracks to Bacon Elevator and Brick Plant, 1918-1920.

File No. 23-22-40. Brookston and Brevator: Spur track between, 1918-1919.

File No. 23-22-41. Cloverdale, British Columbia: take up 5.7 miles track, 1918-1919.

File No. 23-22-42. Cloquet, Minnesota: Weyerhaeuser Tracks, 1918-1919.

File No. 23-22-43. Seattle, Washington: track extension, 16th Avenue Southwest to Todd Dry Dock Company, 1918-1919.

File No. 23-22-44. Sidetracks: construction to serve mining companies on Iron Range, 1918-1919.

File No. 23-22-45. Sioux City, Iowa: Spur Track, Thompson Yards, 1919-1920.

File No. 23-22-46. Hasty, Minnesota: removal yard spur, Anderson's Brick Yard, 1918-1919.

File No. 23-22-47. Tacoma, Washington: construction joint tracks, near East "Q" Street yard, 1918-1919.

File No. 23-22-48. Superior, Wisconsin: steel viaduct, L Street, 1919.

File No. 23-22-49. St. Paul: improved facilities, 1919.

File No. 23-22-50. Seattle, Washington: paving, Leary Avenue, 17th Avenue Northeast, 1919-1920.

File No. 23-22-51. Northtown-St. Cloud: take up spur near Baileys, 1918-1919.

File No. 23-22-52. Coon Creek: remove spur, 1919.

File No. 23-22-53. Signs, 1919.

File No. 23-22-54. Mukilteo, Washington: Sea Wall, 1919.

File No. 23-22-57. Great Falls, Montana: storm sewer crossing tracks 4th Avenue South, 1919.

File No. 23-22-58. Hawkins: Wash Plant, 1918-1919.

File No. 23-22-59. Hallock, Minnesota: move loading platform, install electric lights, 1919.

File No. 23-22-60. Dover, Idaho: connection with Spokane International to reach Dover Lumber Company Mill, 1918-1919.

File No. 23-22-78. Eureka, Montana: Crossing, 1919.

File No. 23-33-82. Minneapolis: New Bridge, 57th Street North, 1917-1919.

File No. 23-22-85. Seattle, Washington: construction viaduct on Connecticut Street, 1st to 4th Avenue South, 1919.

File No. 23-22-97. Vallery: Spur Track, Colville Vallery Coal Company, 1919.

File No. 23-22-117. Warren, Minnesota: transfer track, Great Northern, Minneapolis, St. Paul & Sault Ste. Marie, 1919-1920.

File No. 23-22-118. St. Paul: Industrial Sites, Lowertown, 1919-1920.

File No. 23-22-119. Williston, North Dakota: Industrial sites, 1919.

File No. 23-22-140. Fargo, North Dakota: Industrial sites, 1919-1920.

File No. 23-22-173. Pateros, Washington: River Spur Extension, 1919-1920.

File No. 23-22-192. Second Track work, 1919.

File No. 23-22-217. Sandstone, Minnesota: Removal Tracks, Kettle River Company, 1919-1920.

File No. 23-22-243. Minneapolis: Parlin and Orendorff Warehouse, 1919-1921.

File No. 23-22-252. Cloquet, Minnesota: rebuild passenger station, 1919-1920.

File No. 23-22-269. Hibbing, Minnesota: abandonment of tracks, 1919-1922.

File No. 23-22-273. St. Paul-Minneapolis: Montgomery Ward and Company Location, 1919-1920.

File No. 23-25. Short Line Railroads, 1918-1920. 2 folders.

File No. 23-26. Weekly Report: condition of freight equipment, 1918-1920. 3 folders.

File No. 23-26-1. Refrigerator Cars: construction and repair, 1918-1920. 2 folders.

File No. 23-28. Agents: Immigration, Industrial, and others, 1918-1920.

File No. 23-29. Railway Board of Adjustment, 1918-1919.

File No. 23-32. Appointment, W. W. Walker, Regional Director Western Roads, 1918-1919.

File No. 23-33. Lumber: handling for government, 1918.

Location

Box

133.F.5.2F

File No. 23-36. Earnings and Operating Costs (Circular no. 69), 1914-1920. 7 folders.

File No. 23-37-1. Federal funds for payment of Great Northern Dividend, 1918.

File No. 23-38. Circulars, Division of Operations: Financial and miscellaneous, 1918-1920.

File No. 23-39. Circulars, 1918-1920.

File No. 23-39-1. Capital Expenditures, 1918-1919. 9 folders.

Location

Box

133.F.5.3B

File No. 23-39-2. Deferred improvements, 1919.

Circulars:

File No. 23-40. Regional Director, 1918-1920. 3 folders.

File No. 23-40-3. Mechanical Department, 1918.

File No. 23-41. Purchasing Committee, 1918-1920.

File No. 23-41-1. Regional Purchasing Committee, 1918-1920.

File No. 23-41-2. Rolling Mill Operation, 1918.

Location

Box

133.F.5.4F

File No. 23-42. Circulars: Director General, 1918-1920.

File No. 23-44. Great Lakes Transit Company: Lake Service, 1919.

File No. 23-51. Track laborers, 1918-1919.

File No. 23-52. Labor situation at Duluth/Superior, 1918-1919.

File No. 23-52-1. Labor: Strike at Great Northern Ore Dock, Allouez, Wisconsin, 1918-1919.

File No. 23-53. Sailing Day and freight house closing, 1918-1919.

File No. 23-53-2. Personnel: Duties, Supervisor of Merchandise Services, 1918-1919.

File No. 23-54. Advertising, 1918-1919.

File No. 23-56. Expenditures: Circular No. 5 (regarding memberships, etc.), 1918.

File No. 23-57. Cars: passenger and freight cars due from builders, 1918.

File No. 23-58. Equipment: availability, trade, sale, of rolling stock, 1918-1920.

File No. 23-58-1. Equipment: passenger train car, 1918-1920.

Cars:

File No. 23-58-3. Building passenger and freight cars at company shops, 1918-1920.

File No. 23-58-4. Retention of 8 Pullman Observation Cars on Trains 1 and 2, 1918-1919.

File No. 23-58-5. Gas Electric Cars: Sale to Department of Railways, British Columbia, 1919.

File No. 23-58-6. Jordan Spreaders, 1918-1919.

Cars:

File No. 23-58-7. Steel equipment needed to make Trains 43 and 44 Solid Steel Trains, Billings to Seattle, 1918-1919.

File No. 23-58-8. Condition of passenger train cars, 1917-1919.

File No. 23-58-9. Lease of Mail Cars to Northern Pacific, 1918-1919.

File No. 23-60. Movement of Oil and Tank cars, 1918-1920.

File No. 23-64. Surety Bonds, 1918-1919.

File No. 23-68. Resort and other hotels: railroads interested, 1918.

File No. 23-69. Coal, 1918-1920.

File No. 23-69-1. Coal: developing property at Headquarters of West Flathead River, 1918.

File No. 23-72. General Information and Complaints, 1918.

File No. 23-73. Personnel: Employees Required; various classes, 1918.

File No. 23-74. International Railway Fuel Administration Meeting, Chicago, 1918-1920.

File No. 23-79. Conserving supplies: repairing materials and tools, 1918.

File No. 23-91. Cars: Repair Forces, 1918-1920.

Location

Box

133.F.5.5B

File No. 23-94-4. Stockmen leaving trains at Minneapolis: St. Paul wants them, 1919.

File No. 23-98. Safety Department, 1918-1920.

File No. 23-105-1. Circulars: Claims and Property Protection Section, 1918-1919.

File No. 23-108. Appointments, 1918-1920.

File No. 23-110. Bulletins: heavier loading of cars, 1919.

File No. 23-111. Reports, 1918.

File No. 23-111. Complaint Files:

File No. 23-111-14. Oroville, Washington: T. R. Kearnes: spoiled sandwiches, 1918.

File No. 23-111-24. J. M. Anderson: Bad Conditions Lavatories Train 2, November 6, 1918.

File No. 23-111-33. A. Guthrie and Company: delay in furnishing cars, 1918.

File No. 23-111-42. Telephone Service and Information Bureau, Minneapolis passenger station, 1919.

File No. 23-111-53. Randall, Gee and Mitchell Company: Conditions, Zimmerman, Minnesota, 1918-1919.

File No. 23-111-59. Henry Deutsch: Conditions Minneapolis Passenger Station, 1919.

File No. 23-111-86. Honorable Harold Knutson, House of Representatives: toilet facilities, St. Cloud, Minnesota, 1919.

File No. 23-111-127. W. P. Richardson, Fargo: passenger train overcrowding and Fargo ticket office, 1919.

File No. 23-111-137. Community Club, Danvers: regarding employment of Greek laborers, 1919.

File No. 23-111-143. Dr. W. E. Cook, Aberdeen, South Dakota: regarding engines blowing off, 1919.

File No. 23-111-168. J. Johnson to W. A. Parrants: conditions at Watertown Round House, 1919.

File No. 23-111-170. Alex Skumpins, Extra Gang Foreman: regarding treatment of section laborers at Baker, 1919.

File No. 23-111-173. L. G. Kepple, enclosing petition: station hours at Davis, South Dakota, 1919.

File No. 23-111-199. Robert E. Brede, Former Agent in Ashby, 1919.

File No. 23-111-202. Dr. H. M. Bracken: noise, Minneapolis Passenger Station, 1919.

File No. 23-111-205. Regarding Roadmaster's accepting money for jobs Section Foreman, 1919.

File No. 23-111-206. John Gallus: conditions at Havre, 1919.

File No. 23-111-209. The Traveling Man: storing box cars in Gravel Pits, 1919.

File No. 23-111-220. Gust Margaris, Wagner, Montana: regarding Pete Lakarsa, Section Foreman, 1919.

File No. 23-111-223. Jos Stuhl Reiter, Libby, Montana: regarding Libby Agent, 1919.

File No. 23-111-225. Harold Knutson, United States Representative: regarding P. F. Walsh carrying son on payroll, 1919.

File No. 23-111-235. Senator Walsh: car supply, Eureka Lumber Company, 1919.

File No. 23-111-250. R. N. Harris: "Tea for Three" Theatrical Company, 1920.

File No. 23-114. Demsey Code (Telegraphic), 1918-1924.

File No. 23-116. Fire protection, 1918-1920.

File No. 23-116-9. Fire Inspection Reports, 1919.

File No. 23-116-11. Bridge fires, 1919.

File No. 23-116-12. Fire: loss statistics, classification of property, 1919.

File No. 23-117. Fire prevention, 1918.

File No. 23-118. Rules on refrigeration, icing, heating, 1918-1920.

File No. 23-120. Railway Inspection: Russian government, 1918-1919. 2 folders.

File No. 23-123. Track Scale Testing Equipment, 1918-1919.

File No. 23-124. Bureau of Service: National Parks and Monuments, 1918.

File No. 23-126. W. P. Kenney: appointment as Federal Manager of Great Northern, 1918.

File No. 23-127. Western Union Contract, 1917-1921.

File No. 23-138. Federal Treasurers, 1918-1920.

File No. 23-139. Perishable Freight: handling, 1918-1919.

File No. 23-140. Circulars: Division of Traffic, 1918-1922.

File No. 23-140-3. Division of Traffic: Agricultural Section, 1918-1920.

Location

Box

133.F.5.6F

File No. 23-143-2. St. Cloud, Minnesota: Union Power Company, 1918-1919.

File No. 23-144. Freight cars: wooden, with short draft timbers, 1918.

File No. 23-146. Summer movement of winter supplies and traffic, 1918.

File No. 23-147. Traffic Officials List: location, salaries, duties, 1918.

File No. 23-149. Grain Statistics: cars for grain loading, 1918-1920.

File No. 23-150. Hillyard, Washington: Address by Director General of Railroads to Shopmen, 1918.

File No. 23-154. Circulars: Division of Labor, 1918-1919.

File No. 23-154-1. General File: Division of Labor, 1918.

File No. 23-155. Express Companies, 1918-1920.

File No. 23-155-2. St. Paul: American Railway Express Company: lease covering old Great Northern Freight House at 3rd and Broadway, 1918-1920.

File No. 23-155-3. American Railway Express Company: cooperation with Railroad Administration, 1918-1920.

File No. 23-155-4. Pilferage: fruit shipments handled on 28, 1918-1919.

File No. 23-156. Routing: Use of Direct Routes, 1918-1919.

File No. 23-156-8. Routing of Business: Spokane, Portland, and Seattle, 1918-1919.

File No. 23-156-9. Routing of Business: Everett and North, 1918-1919.

File No. 23-156-12. Routing of Merchandise from Chicago, Illinois, 1919-1920.

File No. 23-156-33. Routing: Instructions, Carloads from Chicago to Minnesota, 1919.

File No. 23-156-37. Routing: Smelter Products, 1918-1919.

File No. 23-157. Publicity Department: Organization, 1918-1919.

File No. 23-158. Twin City Terminals: Terminal Manager, 1918.

File No. 23-159. Stock Feed: Shortage in Montana Account Drought, 1918-1920.

File No. 23-161. Minneapolis, Anoka, and Cuyuna Range Railroad, 1916-1920.

File No. 23-162. Cars: use of paint and enamel for coach finishing, 1918.

Women employees:

File No. 23-164. Report on number employed, 1918-1920.

File No. 23-165. Accidents, 1918-1920.

File No. 23-171. Canadian Roads: Division of Business, 1918.

Location

Box

133.F.5.7B

File No. 23-172. Cars: refrigerator cars bearing Brewery Ads, 1918.

File No. 23-179. Assistant Road Masters: discontinuance of A. E. Johnson, Extra Gang of Section Foreman, Comstock, Minnesota, 1918.

File No. 23-180. Extension request: Gilman to Augusta, Montana, 1916-1926.

File No. 23-181. Rates: Magnesite, American Mineral Products Company, Vallery, Washington, 1918-1922.

File No. 23-181-1. Magnesite: car supply, 1919-1920.

File No. 23-183. Damage to freight cars, 1918.

File No. 23-186. Circulars: Division of Traffic and Operations, 1918-1919.

File No. 23-190. Signals: block signal work; automatic signals, 1918-1919.

File No. 23-191. Observation cars in service, 1918.

File No. 23-194. Priority Orders, 1918.

File No. 23-200. Passenger Committees, 1918.

File No. 23-202. Rail Anchors, 1918-1919.

File No. 23-203. Dining Cars, 1918-1920.

File No. 23-204. Political activity, 1918.

File No. 23-210. Charges by M. O'Brien, Crookston: discrediting government operation, 1918.

File No. 23-212. Cranes, 1918-1919.

File No. 23-214. Track levels, 1918.

File No. 23-219. Pneumatic Tie Tamping Outfits, 1918.

File No. 23-220. Cars: allocation of 1500 freight cars, 1918-1919.

File No. 23-222. Bridges: Replacement, 1919, 1918.

File No. 23-223. Grain Embargo: Grain Control Committee, 1918-1920.

File No. 23-224. Performance of passenger trains, 1918-1920.

File No. 23-228. Hillyard: repairing Spokane, Portland, and Seattle engines, 1918-1920.

Location

Box

133.F.5.8F

File No. 23-230. Minneapolis Junction: report, inspection round house and car repair, 1918.

File No. 23-231. Fridley Terminal: Report on inspection of round house and car repair shop, 1918.

File No. 23-234. Connections: passenger train, 1918-1919.

File No. 23-236. Superior, Wisconsin: conditions at shops yard, 1918-1919.

File No. 23-240. Water Tanks: concrete, 1918.

File No. 23-241. Angle bars, 1918-1919.

File No. 23-243. United States Railroad Administration Flag, 1918.

File No. 23-244. Circulars: Finance and Purchasing,

File No. 23-245. Helena, Montana: St. Charles College, use of old freight and passenger station, 1918-1919.

File No. 23-246. Log Rates: Sultan Railway and Timber Company, 1918.

File No. 23-252. Train Service: Virden and Sweet Grass, 1918.

File No. 23-255. St. Paul: Jackson Street Shops and Inspection Report, 1918.

File No. 23-257. Track repairing of frogs, 1918.

File No. 23-259. Terminal Companies: information, 1918.

File No. 23-260. Unification files:

File No. 23-260. General file, 1918-1920.

File No. 23-260-1. Station facilities, Bisbee, Rolette, Andock Lansford, Conway, 1918-1920.

File No. 23-260-2. Minot, North Dakota, 1918-1919.

File No. 23-260-3. Leeds, Iowa, and joint switching, 1918-1919.

File No. 23-260-4. Breckenridge and Wahpeton, 1918-1920.

File No. 23-260-5. Sweet Grass, Montana, 1918.

File No. 23-260-6. Elimination of either Farmer's Grain & Shipping Company or Soo Line from Olmstead to Hansboro, 1918.

File No. 23-260-6. Unification files:

File No. 23-260-6. Egeland, North Dakota, 1918.

File No. 23-260-7. Albany and Alexandria,

File No. 23-260-8. Between Elbow Lake, Minnesota and Geneseo, North Dakota, 1918.

File No. 23-260-9. Wilton to Schley, 1918.

File No. 23-260-11. Lester, Iowa, 1918.

File No. 23-260-12. Huron and other points on Chicago and Northwestern, 1918-1919.

File No. 23-260-13. Use of Great Northern Main: Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis & Omaha Crossing West of Carson to Sioux Falls, 1918.

File No. 23-260-14. Leeds, North Dakota, 1918-1920.

File No. 23-260-15. Sioux Falls, South Dakota, 1918.

File No. 23-260-16. Volin, Arlington, Mellette, Mission Hill, Wolsey, 1918-1920.

File No. 23-260-17. Hills, Minnesota, 1918.

File No. 23-260-18. Morris, Minnesota, 1918-1919.

File No. 23-260-19. Consolidating Track Facilities: Merrill and Leeds, Iowa, 1918.

Unification Files:

File No. 23-260-20. Devils Lake, North Dakota, 1918.

File No. 23-260-21. Wentworth, South Dakota, 1918-1922.

File No. 23-260-22. Doon, Iowa, 1918.

File No. 23-260-23. Hinton, Iowa, 1918.

File No. 23-260-24. Hopkins, Minnesota, 1918-1922.

File No. 23-260-25. Aberdeen, South Dakota, 1918.

File No. 23-260-26. Between Lewistown, Montana and Hanover, 1918-1920.

File No. 23-260-27. Lennox, South Dakota, 1918.

File No. 23-260-28. Hanley Falls, Minnesota, 1918.

File No. 23-260-29. Tacoma, Washington, 1918.

File No. 23-260-30. Walker, Minnesota, 1918-1919.

File No. 23-260-31. Hutchinson, Minnesota, 1918.

File No. 23-260-32. Ballard, Washington, 1918.

File No. 23-260-33. Butte, Montana, 1918-1920.

File No. 23-260-34. Helena, Montana, 1918-1920.

File No. 23-260-35. Newport, Washington, 1918-1919.

File No. 23-260-36. Carnation and Duvall, 1918.

File No. 23-260-37. Everett, Washington, 1918-1919.

File No. 23-260-38. Crookston, and Red Lake Falls, 1918-1919.

File No. 23-260-39. Great Falls, Montana, 1918-1919.

File No. 23-260-40. Choteau, Montana, 1918-1919.

File No. 23-260-41. Seattle, Washington, 1918-1920.

File No. 23-260-42. Billings and Laurel, Montana, 1918-1921.

File No. 23-260-43. Deer Lodge, Montana, 1918.

File No. 23-260-44. Chicago, Minneapolis & St. Paul and Great Northern Lines, 1918.

File No. 23-260-45. Soo Line and Great Northern, 1918.

File No. 23-260-46. Northern Pacific and Great Northern Lines, 1918.

File No. 23-260-47. Minneapolis, St. Paul, and Great Northern Lines, 1918.

File No. 23-260-48. Chicago & Northwestern and Great Northern Lines, 1918.

File No. 23-260-49. Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis & Omaha and Great Northern Lines, 1918.

File No. 23-260-50. Inland Empire and Great Northern Lines, 1918.

File No. 23-260-51. Duluth, Missabe & Northern and Great Northern Lines, 1918.

File No. 23-260-52. Duluth, Winnipeg & Pacific and Great Northern Lines, 1918.

File No. 23-260-53. Missouri and Illinois and Great Northern, [1918].

File No. 23-260-54. Canadian National and Great Northern, [1918].

File No. 23-260-55. Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific and Great Northern Lines, [1918].

File No. 23-260-56. East St. Cloud and Sauk Rapids, 1918.

Location

Box

133.F.5.9B

File No. 23-260-57. Grand Forks, North Dakota, 1918.

File No. 23-260-58. Interbay, Washington, 1918-1919.

File No. 23-260-59. Delta, Washington, 1918-1919.

File No. 23-260-60. Bemidji, Minnesota, 1918.

File No. 23-260-61. Warroad, Minnesota, 1918.

File No. 23-260-62. Crosby, North Dakota, 1918.

File No. 23-260-63. Hannaford, North Dakota, 1918.

File No. 23-260-64. Bellingham, Minnesota, 1918-1922.

File No. 23-260-65. Portland, Oregon, 1919.

File No. 23-260-66. Calumet, Minnesota, 1919-1920.

File No. 23-260-66A. Miscellaneous correspondence, various points, 1918.

File No. 23-260-67. Huron, South Dakota, 1920.

File No. 23-267. Spanish Influenza, 1918-1920.

File No. 23-274. Snow plows: attaching to cars, 1918.

File No. 23-275. Fire: Smith Cove Shale Oil Dock destroyed, 1918.

File No. 23-281-2. Seattle: Post Office Building, 1918.

File No. 23-284. Forest fires: Northern Minnesota, 1918-1920.

File No. 23-286. Hours of Service Law, 1918-1920.

File No. 23-292. Bridge maintenance: contracting with Grant Smith and Company, 1918-1919.

File No. 23-301. Purchasing and Store Department: Organization, 1918-1919.

File No. 23-302. Great Falls: comparison of work and shop output, 1918.

File No. 23-303. Hillyard Shops, 1918.

File No. 23-312. Incandescent electric lamps, 1918-1919.

File No. 23-322. Director-General of the United States Railway Association: trip to Iron Range, 1918.

File No. 23-326. Mechanic and Car Department: hours of service, 1918.

File No. 23-328. Hillyard, Washington: Iron House, 1918.

File No. 23-336. Weekly Traffic Report, 1918-1920.

File No. 23-337. Oriental labor conditions, 1918.

File No. 23-338. Cars: purchase of flat and stock cars, 1918-1919.

File No. 23-342. Great Falls, Montana: strike of blacksmiths, 1918.

File No. 23-343. Allouez, Wisconsin: shop inspection, 1918.

File No. 23-344. Superior, Wisconsin: shop inspection, 1918.

File No. 23-345. Cars: bad order conditions, Grand Forks, North Dakota and Cedar Lake, 1918.

File No. 23-349-5. Salaries: increases, Mechanic Department, 1918-1919.

File No. 23-349-6. Salaries: increases, Engine Department, 1919.

File No. 23-352. Track: repair facilities at Minneapolis Junction, 1918.

File No. 23-354. Employment of Female Callers, 1918-1919.

File No. 23-355. Employment of Negroes, 1918.

File No. 23-359. Brotherhoods: request Great Northern reinstate employees, 1918-1919.

File No. 23-361. Construction Progress Report, 1918-1919.

File No. 23-366. Valuation expenses, 1918-1919.

File No. 23-385. Air brake equipment, 1918-1919.

File No. 23-386. Minneapolis, St. Paul, Rochester & Dubuque Electric Traction Company: Relations with, 1918-1919.

File No. 23-390. Brotherhood of Railway Clerks, 1918-1926.

File No. 23-390-1. Miss Gertrude Tucker: dismissal, Clerk, Sioux City, Iowa, Storehouse, 1919.

Location

Box

133.F.5.10F

File No. 23-390-14. Union Agreements, 1920-1933.

File No. 23-391. Time Zones: fixing limits, 1918-1919.

File No. 23-395. Cars: painting freight equipment, 1918-1920.

File No. 23-396. Roadway and structures: upkeep, 1917-1919.

File No. 23-406. Fireman: Duties and Working Conditions, 1918.

File No. 23-416. Salaries and expenses: administration by individual railroads, 1918-1919.

File No. 23-423. Ice houses, 1918-1920.

File No. 23-424. Master Car Builder's Brake Shoe Keys, 1918.

File No. 23-425. Butte and Woodville: Stockyards, 1918-1920.

File No. 23-426. Provisions for released labor, 1918-1919.

File No. 23-427. Seattle, Washington: proposed Belt Line, 1918-1919.

File No. 23-428. Allouez, Wisconsin: repairs to Ore Docks, 1918-1919.

File No. 23-430. Interbay Round House, 1918-1919.

File No. 23-435. Barnesville and Melrose: general conditions, 1918-1919.

File No. 23-439. Reduction in force, 1918-1919.

File No. 23-444. Delta Shops, 1918.

File No. 23-446. Ice harvesting: contract with J. H. Pifer, 1918-1919.

File No. 23-449. Northern States Power: contract with Great Northern, increases, 1918-1920.

File No. 23-460. Lease of rails to industries and logging railroads, 1918-1920.

File No. 23-460-1. Lease of rails: Skookum Railway and Logging Company, 1918-1921.

File No. 23-460-4. Lease of rail: Deer Park Lumber Company, Springdale, Washington, 1918-1920.

File No. 23-460-8. Rail: sale to Pillsbury Flour Mill Company, Minneapolis, 1919.

File No. 23-460-10. Rail: sale to Eureka Lumber Company, 1919.

File No. 23-462. Legislative Matters, State of Minnesota, 1919.

File No. 23-462-10. Car Shed Law: North Dakota and Minnesota, 1919-1921.

File No. 23-488. Bemidji, Minnesota: projected line of railroad North, 1918-1919.

File No. 23-497. Seattle, Washington: strike of Longshore Men, 1919.

File No. 23-511-1. Great Falls, Montana: Machinists Strike, January 1919.

File No. 23-514. Ramapo Safety Switch Stands, 1919-1920.

File No. 23-522. Freeport, Minnesota: unsanitary condition of station, 1919.

File No. 23-532. Russian Mission: Ways of Communication, N. P. Boorshinsky, 1919.

File No. 23-536. Accounting Department: requests for extra statements and statistical work, 1919.

File No. 23-545. Car Step, 1919.

File No. 23-546. Traffic conditions: report on business prospects, Great Northern, 1919.

File No. 23-549. Divisions with Hill City Railway Company, 1919-1922.

File No. 23-695. Blue Stem Branch: Completion, 1919.

File No. 23-686. Potatoes and bananas: handling on Sunday (perishables), 1919.

File No. 23-701. Car repair sheds, 1919.

File No. 23-702. Track abandonment: Molson to Oroville, 1919.

File No. 23-705. Track: proposed new line, Tabor, Minnesota, 1919.

File No. 23-707. Track: proposed new line, Ottertail County, 1919.

File No. 23-708. Bridges: washout on Oroville Line near Tonasket, 1919.

File No. 23-715. Divisional Organization, 1919.

File No. 23-718. Washington Western Railway v Three Lakes Lumber Company, 1919-1929.

File No. 23-726. Station Platforms: Location of, 1919.

File No. 23-727. Spokane and Marcus Divisions: Consolidation, 1919.

File No. 23-728. Laborers: Roundhouse, 1919.

Location

Box

133.F.5.11B

File No. 23-730. Port charges, 1919-1920.

File No. 23-740. Maintenance Program, 1919-1920. 5 folders.

File No. 23-740 1 and 2. Maintenance Program Reports, 1919. 2 folders.

File No. 23-742. Vancouver, Victoria & Eastern Railway, Phoenix Branch: abandonment, Grand Forks to Phoenix, 1918-1920.

File No. 23-751. Reward: arrest and conviction of robbers, 1919-1921.

File No. 23-768. Stores inspection: United States Railroad Administrative Supervisor of Stores, 1919.

File No. 23-774. Cars: Automobile, 1918-1920.

File No. 23-785. Spokane International Railway: consolidation with Great Northern between Bonners Ferry and Sand Point, 1919.

File No. 23-789. Traveling Division Accountants, 1919.

File No. 23-792. Compensation Paid: shop and roundhouse employees, Great Northern, 1917-1919.

File No. 23-800. Car loading, 1918.

File No. 23-811. Cars: return of Great Northern stock cars, 1919-1920.

File No. 23-820. Cars: Gould Simplex System, Electric Car Lighting Equipment, 1919.

File No. 23-822. Hillyard Shops: accident to machinist J. W. Fuller, 1919.

File No. 23-847. Pelican Rapids Extension, 1919.

File No. 23-873. Cars: cost of cleaning passenger equipment, 1918-1919.

File No. 23-874. Costs: freight locomotives and freight trains, 1919-1920.

File No. 23-875. Condensed Income Account, 1919-1920.

File No. 23-876. Performance: freight train and freight locomotive, 1919. 3 folders.

Location

Box

133.F.5.12F

File No. 23-878. Locomotives: fuel performance, 1916-1919.

File No. 23-879. Performance: passenger train and passenger locomotives, 1919-1920.

File No. 23-880. Freight traffic: movement and car performance, 1919.

File No. 23-881. Passengers carried, 1918-1920.

File No. 23-882. Locomotives: number, and distribution of locomotive hours, 1918-1920.

File No. 23-883. Performance: train and locomotives, passenger service, 1918.

File No. 23-885. Performance: train and locomotive freight service, 1918-1920.

File No. 23-887. Statistics: comparisons of various railroads, 1916-1917. Linen.

File No. 23-912. Track tools, 1919.

File No. 23-918. Freight Statistics, 1925-1929.

File No. 23-926. Safety Calendar, 1919.

File No. 23-937. Railroad Electrification French Commissioners Investigation, United States Tour, 1919.

File No. 23-941. Stations: discontinuance, 1919.

File No. 23-952. Operating practices, 1919.

File No. 23-954. Snow sheds, 1919.

File No. 23-977. Bulletins: United States Railroad Association, 1919-1920.

File No. 23-988. Efficiencies: materials and employees, 1919.

File No. 23-998. Logging trains: contracts for handling, 1919.

File No. 23-1020. Vacancies in Car Trust Series, 1919-1920.

File No. 23-1022. Fergus Falls, Minnesota: cyclone; wreck of No. 1 by cyclone, Carlisle, Minnesota, June 22, 1919.

File No. 23-1023. Smoke Inspectors, 1919.

File No. 23-1034. Skykomish: engine House, 1919.

File No. 23-1042. Walker, Minnesota: car supply, log siding, T. J. Welsh, 1919.

File No. 23-1047. Forest fires, 1919.

File No. [23-1051]. Operating costs: Great Northern and Northern Pacific 1910-1918, 1919.

File No. 23-1052. Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen, 1919.

File No. 23-1058. Crop conditions, 1919-1920.

File No. 23-1067. Shop Employees Strike, August 1919. 3 folders.

File No. 23-1068. Capital Expenditures: narrative report, 1919.

Location

Box

133.F.5.13B

File No. 23-1076. Accounting Department: status and progress of work, 1919.

File No. 23-1085. Northern Dakota Railway, 1919-1920.

File No. 23-1020. Director-General Expenditures: additions and betterments, 1919-1920.

File No. 23-1123. Minneapolis Passenger Station: baggage trucks, 1919.

File No. 23-1133. Willamette Valley Southern Railway, 1919.

File No. 23-1134. Clippings on railroad matters, 1919.

File No. 23-1135. Rules: Union Agreement, 1919.

File No. 23-1136. Lumber, timber, and forest products: storage, care, handling, 1919.

File No. 23-1140. Engine house operations, 1919-1920.

File No. 23-1149. Car Clean-Up Day, September 21, 1919.

File No. 23-1150. Properties: Report of Conditions, 1919.

File No. 23-1151. Jasper Stone Company Car Shortage, 1919.

File No. 23-1153. Restoration of bridges in Malta, Oswego, Blair, Yarnell, and Northport, 1919.

File No. 23-1158. Car Supply: Hill City Railway, 1919-1920.

File No. 23-1160. Peddler cars, 1919.

File No. 23-1161. King and Queen of Belgium Party, 1919.

File No. 23-1169. Custom House Entries, 1919.

File No. 23-1172. Transportation Committee, 1919-1920.

File No. 23-1173. Firemen: requests for 2 firemen on locomotives (1915 award), 1919.

File No. 23-1179. Car supply: hay shortage, 1919-1920.

File No. 23-1194. Car Seal: Edgar Steel, 1919.

File No. 23-1195. Republic, Washington, 1919-1920.

File No. 23-1199. Stations: number of employees, salaries, 1919.

File No. 23-1203. Rates: grain and flour to Head of the Lakes, 1919-1920.

File No. 23-1205. Locomotive fuel on hand, 1919.

File No. 23-1211. Electric Welding Machine: United States Heat and Light Corporation, 1919.

File No. 23-1212. Tell tales, 1919.

File No. 23-1216. Sioux City, Iowa: shop inspection, 1919.

File No. 23-1222. Passenger Trains: electric markers, 1919.

File No. 23-1225. Coal: Supply for public utilities served by Great Northern, 1919.

File No. 23-1312. National Prohibition Act: regulations for enforcement, 1920.

File No. 23-1317. Consolidated Classification: Tariffs, 1919-1922.

File No. 23-1323. Hamline Transfer: Inspection Report, 1920.

File No. 23-1327. Change of Terminals, Glasgow to Bowdoin, Montana, 1920.

File No. 23-1329. United States Bureau of Efficiency, 1920.

File No. 23-1331. Physical condition as compared with January 1, 1918, 1918-1920.

File No. 23-1336. Wenatchee-Okanogan Branch: newspaper criticism, poor service, 1919-1920.

File No. 23-1337. Sioux City, Iowa: facilities used by Chicago, Burlington & Quincy, 1920.

File No. 23-1339. Rothsay, Minnesota: petition for improved passenger service, 1920.

File No. 23-1340. Brotherhood of Railroad Signalmen: National Agreement, 1920.

File No. 23-1342. Noyes, Minnesota: night arrival of freight trains, customs work, 1920.

File No. 23-1353. Cokato, Minnesota: draining of Smith Lake, 1920.

File No. 23-1363. Private car Boston: itinerary of Kahn Party, Palm Beach, Florida, California, New York, 1920.

File No. 23-1373. Federal Control: Termination, 1920.

File No. 23-1374. Seattle to Portland: resumption of service, 1919-1920.

File No. 23-1378. Space occupied by the United States Railway Association in Great Northern Building during period of Federal Control, 1921.

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MONTHLY STATEMENTS OF COMMISSIONS PAID

Location

133.F.15.5B

Monthly statements, 1898-1899. 1 volume. Letterpress copies.

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GREAT NORTHERN EXPRESS COMPANY SUBJECT FILES

Correspondence, memoranda, reports, telegrams, operating statistics, blueprints and other files kept by W. P. Kenney, Great Northern's Vice President - Traffic, in order to oversee the operations of the Great Northern Express Company, and express service subsidiary of the Great Northern that was active from 1892-1920. The bulk of the files detail operations during the 1915-1918 period.

Related Materials: Corporate records (1889-1957) of the Great Northern Express Company are available in the Minnesota Historical Society manuscripts collection as one of the Great Northern branch lines and subsidiaries.

Location

132.D.11.6F

File No. 1. General, 1904-1921. 3 folders.

File No. 2. Rates, 1915-1920.

File No. 3. Claims, 1915-1919.

File No. 4. Purchases, 1915-1918.

File No. 5. Service, 1915-1818.

File No. 6. Equipment, 1915-1917.

File No. 7. Agencies, 1915-1918.

File No. 8. Salaries; job applications, 1915-1918.

File No. 9. Franks, 1915-1918. 2 folders.

File No. 10. Telephone service, 1915.

File No. 11. Rental of St. Paul offices, 1915-1918.

File No. 12. Comparison of autos with horse-drawn vehicles, 1916-1918.

File No. 13. Express Managers Association minutes, 1916-1917.

File No. 14. Employee bonds, 1916-1918.

File No. 15. Carload fish business, 1915-1918.

File No. 16. Carload fruit business, 1916-1918.

File No. 17. Booth Company cars, 1916-1917.

File No. 18. Depot warehouse, Chicago, 1916.

File No. 19. American Express Company: withdrawal of Watertown and Sioux Falls Railway service, 1916.

File No. 20. Proposed travel department, 1916.

File No. 21. Additional express business space, 1915-1917.

File No. 22. New lands inquiries, 1916.

File No. 23. Bulletin of Conference Committee No. 45, New York, 1915-1918.

File No. 24. Bright Emery Company v American Express; Pioneer Fruit Company v American Express, 1916.

File No. 25. Franks issued, 1917.

File No. 26. Delays to passenger trains account loading baggage and express, 1916-1917.

File No. 27. Contract with Watertown and Sioux Falls Railway, 1917.

Location

132.D.11.7B

File No. 28. Consolidation of Great Northern Express Company with Adams Express Company, 1917-1918.

File No. 29. Hearing before Montana Railway Commission regarding acceptance of perishables when below Zero degrees Fahrenheit, 1917.

File No. 30. Great Northern Express Company: Salem, Oregon, 1917.

File No. 31. Proposed fireproof storage building on 9th Street, 1917-1918.

File No. 32. Northwestern Vacuum Churn Corporation, 1917.

File No. 33. Express companies and national defense, 1917.

File No. 34. United States v Great Northern Express Company, Sand Point, Idaho, 1917-1918.

File No. 35. Expenses of Classification and Publication Bureau, 1917.

File No. 36. Drivers' strike, Seattle, Washington, 1917-1918.

File No. 37. Lippman, Wolf and Company business, 1917.

File No. 38. Meier and Frank business, 1917.

File No. 39. Joseph Ullman Company business, 1917.

File No. 40. Handling charcoal heaters, 1917.

File No. 41. Remittance by dining car conductor Churchill, 1917.

File No. 42. Great Northern Express Company money orders, 1917-1918.

File No. 43. Drayage allowance: free collection and delivery service at various points, 1917-1920.

File No. 44. Marine risk insurance, 1917.

File No. 45. Oyster Growers and Dealers Association of North America, 1917.

File No. 46. Tractors for St. Paul depot service, 1917-1918.

File No. 47. Handling milk shipments for Canadian Northern Railway at Vancouver, British Columbia, joint terminal, 1917.

File No. 48. Handling express refrigerator cars with freight trucks in passenger trains, 1917.

File No. 49. Agreement with Northern Express Company as to occupancy of Spokane, Portland & Seattle Railway and subsidiary lines, 1917-1918.

File No. 50. International Association of Express Messengers and all employees, 1917.

File No. 51. City office at Minneapolis, 1917-1918.

File No. 52. Handling shipments of milk, cream, and dairy products, 1917-1918.

File No. 53. Advertising, 1917-1918.

File No. 54. Express quarters at Superior depot, 1917-1918.

File No. 55. Express quarters at Glasgow, Montana, 1917-1918.

File No. 56. Davies Spur, Washington, 1912-1918.

File No. 57. Electric heaters in check booths at Minneapolis, 1918.

File No. 58. Express facilities at Wenatchee, Washington, 1916-1918.

File No. 59. Making S. T. Hart assistant superintendent, 1918.

File No. 60. Government control of express companies, 1918.

File No. 61. Express building on Great Northern's old property at Vancouver, British Columbia, 1917-1918.

File No. 62. Express building at Fargo, North Dakota, 1918-1919.

File No. 63. List of salaries and general expenses in general offices, St. Paul, and all straight express agencies, 1915.

File No. 64. On hand sales, 1918.

File No. 65. Compensation to Mrs. E. F. Jones, widow of messenger, 1918.

Miscellaneous Great Northern Express Company and related matters files, 1919-1930. 3 folders.

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PROGRESS REPORT TO SHIPPERS

Annual brochures published by the Great Northern traffic department.

Location

133.G.8.5B

Progress reports, 1963-1968. 6 volumes.

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CATALOG HEADINGS

This collection is indexed under the following headings in the catalog of the Minnesota Historical Society. Researchers desiring materials about related topics, persons or places should search the catalog using these headings.

Topics:: Advertising -- Transportation -- Northwestern States.; Customer relations.; Pullman cars -- Northwestern States.; Railroads -- Freight -- Northwestern States.; Railroads -- Northwestern States -- Management.; Railroads -- Northwestern States -- Passenger traffic.; Railroads -- Northwestern States -- Station service.; Railroads and state.; Transportation -- Public relations -- Northwestern States.

Organizations:: Great Northern Railway Company (U.S.).; Great Northern Express Company -- Management.; United States Railroad Administration.

Places:: Glacier National Park (Mont.)

Document Types:: Advertisements.; Letterpress copybooks.

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