EDWIN W. WINTER:
An Inventory of His Papers at the Minnesota Historical Society
Manuscripts Collection
OVERVIEW
| Creator: | Winter, Edwin W. (Edwin Wheeler), 1845-1930, creator. | |
| Title: | Edwin W. Winter papers. | |
| Dates: | 1870-1923. | |
| Abstract: | Correspondence and related papers of this railroad official in Wisconsin, St. Paul, and New York, largely documenting his years as assistant president and general manager of the Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis, and Omaha Railway Company (1880-1896), as president of the Northern Pacific Railway Company (1896-1897), and as president of the Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company (1903-1911). | |
| Quantity: | 1.25 cubic feet (3 boxes, including 5 volumes; 17 oversize items). | |
| Location: | See Detailed Description for shelf locations. |
BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE
Edwin Wheeler Winter was born on November 18, 1845 in Bloomfield, Vermont. Sometime prior to 1848 his family moved to Compton, New Hampshire, where they remained until their 1856 move to Wauconda, Illinois. There Winter attended both the Wauconda and Lake Zurich academies. At age fifteen he left home and found employment on area farms for nearly two years. He then attended Dyrengurth's School of Trade in Waukegan, Illinois and became an assistant teacher when the school moved to Chicago. He also worked as a wagon driver and bookkeeper at Chicago's Mechanical Bakery and as a bookkeeper at several shipping warehouses before he became an office boy in the Chicago American Express Company office in 1862. Except for a short period of service with an Illinois regiment during the Civil War, he remained with American Express until 1866. In that year he joined the newly organized Merchant's Union Express Company, but left in 1867 to join the Union Pacific Railway Company (UP). He was employed in the UP's construction department, serving in several capacities, including paymaster, in Chicago, Wyoming, and Utah. In 1870 he left the UP and returned to Chicago where he became a general agent for the American Art Association in the Cincinnati, Ohio area. In 1871 he again returned to Chicago and became a bookkeeper with the railroad construction firm of Seymour, Wallace and Company. He served at construction sites in Moberly (Missouri), Atchison (Kansas), and Marinette (Wisconsin). In 1873 he left the construction firm to become the general claim agent of the Chicago and North Western Railway Company (C&NW) in Chicago. He moved to Hudson, Wisconsin in 1876 when he became general superintendent of the West Wisconsin Railway Company. In 1878 the West Wisconsin Railway Company was acquired by the Chicago, St. Paul and Minneapolis Railway Company (CSPM), and Winter was named general superintendent the following year. In 1880 the line became the Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis and Omaha Railway Company (the Omaha) and Winter was made assistant president in 1881. In that same year he moved to St. Paul. In 1885 he was named the Omaha's general manager, a position he held until he became president of the Northern Pacific Railway Company (NP) in July 1896. His resignation the following April took effect on August 31 and was attributed to a conflict over the railroad's ownership.
Winter moved to New York City in 1899 where he became known as a builder of "sick" railroads, participating in the reorganization of the Cleveland, Lorain and Wheeling Railway Company and the Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company (BRT). He served as president of the latter from 1903 through 1911. He was also president of the Chicago Transfer and Clearing Company in the late 1890s.
Winter married Elizabeth Cannon of Louisville, Kentucky in 1870. He died at his summer home in Little Compton, Rhode Island on June 28, 1930.
Biographical data was taken from the collection and the St. Paul Dispatch, June 28, 1930, p. 1. See Minnesota History, 40:16.
SCOPE AND CONTENTS
The collection documents the business, personal, and social activities of Winter. It is divided into the following sections: reminiscences (1922), correspondence and related papers (undated and 1870-1921), speeches (undated and 1890-1908), printed materials (1894-1910), clippings (undated and 1881-1908), Association to Advance Psychic Knowledge transcripts (1922-1923), volumes (1878-1911), and oversize papers (1892-1918).
Consisting mainly of correspondence, newspaper clippings, reminiscences, legal and financial documents, pamphlets, speeches, and transcripts, the papers are arranged chronologically within each section, unless otherwise noted in the following Description of the Papers or in the annotated volume list.
ADMINISTRATIVE INFORMATION
Availability:
The collection is open for research use.
Preferred Citation:
[Indicate the cited item and/or series here]. Edwin W. Winter Papers. Minnesota Historical Society.
See the Chicago Manual of Style for additional examples.
Accession Information:
Accession number(s): 5392; 7647; 8754
Processing Information:
Processed by: Cheryl N. Thies, May 1984
Catalog ID number: 990017331680104294
DETAILED DESCRIPTION
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| P1451 | 1 | Memories, March 1922. | |||||||||
| Winter's reminiscences, stretching from his birth in Vermont through his 1911 resignation as president of the Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company. Contains details of his childhood in Vermont, including the family home, Baptist Church meetings, his father's various employments, and nutting; the family's move to Illinois by train and wagon; his schooling at the Lake Zurich and Wauconda, Illinois academies; his father's death; his wife and children; employment on area farms; attendance at Dyrengurth's School of Trade in Waukegan, Illinois and teaching at Dyrengurth's Chicago school; his early employments as a delivery wagon driver and bookkeeper; and his subsequent positions with the American Express Company, Merchant's Union Express Company, the UP, American Art Association, Seymour, Wallace and Company, the C&NW, West Wisconsin Railway Company, the Omaha, the NP, and the BRT. | |||||||||||
| Correspondence and related papers: | |||||||||||
| The bulk of the correspondence covers Winter's business and personal activities during his years as general manager of the Omaha and president of the NP and the BRT. Included are long-running series with James C. Spooner, U.S. Senator from Hudson, Wisconsin, and Henry H. Porter, early president of the C&NW and the Omaha. Materials include letters, railroad circulars and passes, telegrams, financial records, reports, sketches, programs, and invitations. | |||||||||||
| Undated. | |||||||||||
| Includes a Great Northern Railway Company officers' code of rules, BRT financial statements, Winter's personal bookplate, a railroad notice written in Omaha (Indian), and pencil sketches of Winter. | |||||||||||
| 1870-1890. | |||||||||||
| Contains an introductory letter for Winter from the superintendent of the Adams Express Company, Cincinnati (Feb. 1870); Marvin Hughitt's congratulatory note on Winter's promotion to the Omaha's assistant presidency (March 1881); Winter's first passes as the Western Wisconsin Railway general superintendent (1878); notice of Winter's election as a St. Paul and Duluth Railroad Company director (June 1881) and correspondence concerning the company's bonds (July 1881); Winter's St. Paul Chamber of Commerce perpetual membership certificate (July 1885); correspondence (mainly with Thomas Lowry) and documents detailing Minneapolis Street Railway Company stock purchases and sales (Aug. 1887); a note from James J. Hill concerning Great Falls Water Power and Townsite Company stock (Jan. 1888); receipts and bills from a European trip (1889); letters (1889) from Henry D. Minot, Eastern Railway Company of Minnesota president, concerning a dinner with Winter, F. B. Clarke, and St. Paul and Duluth Railroad Company representatives (June), an alliance between the Omaha and the NP (Oct.), and the Omaha's land dealings in Wisconsin (Dec.); F. B. Clarke's resignation as the Omaha's general traffic agent (Jan. 1890); letters from John C. Spooner concerning mutual land holdings in West Superior and Superior, Wisconsin (May-Dec. 1890); and letters regarding Winter's interests in the Northern Nebraska Land and Improvement Company and Duluth Transfer Railway Company (July 1890). | |||||||||||
| 1891-1895. | |||||||||||
| Includes letters from Marvin Hughitt, C&NW president (Jan. 1891), A. Manvel, Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway president (April 1891), H. G. Prout, Railroad Gazette editor (April 1891), A. B. Stickney, Chicago, St. Paul and Kansas City Railway Company chairman (Nov. 1891), James H. Howe, the Omaha's solicitor (Jan.-April, Aug. 1892), and W. P. Clough, GN vice-president (Jan. 1893) concerning such railroad problems as rates, violations, legislation, and the Omaha's general operational problems. | |||||||||||
| A letter from John C. Spooner concerns Winter's representation of his interest in the Northern Nebraska Land and Improvement Company (Dec. 1891); one from W. H. Norris, Minneapolis attorney, concerns J. H. Howe's death (Jan. 1893); and one from Howard Williams, Winter's Omaha porter and private car cook, expresses his regret over leaving Winter (Aug. 1894). A series of letters from W. H. Newman, C&NW third vice-president, detail Winter's financial account with the C&NW, which had acquired control of the Omaha in 1882 (Jan., Nov.-Dec. 1895); another series detail Winter's involvement in the Bay Land and Improvement Company, Washburn, Wisconsin (June-Aug. 1893). This segment also includes notice of his election as a First National Bank of St. Paul director (June 1891), a pencil sketch of "Puget Sound to St. Paul - GN" made by James J. Hill in Winter's office (Feb. 1892), and Winter's appointment as Minnesota delegate to the International Deep Waterways Convention in Cleveland (Sept. 1895). | |||||||||||
| 1896. | |||||||||||
| Mainly congratulatory letters (June 23-Sept. 1) following Winter's appointment as NP president. Includes letters from his son-in-law, William J. Dean; several C&NW officials, including Marvin Hughitt; a joint letter from the major officials of the Omaha (July 4); from various railroad officials; and from many prominent Minnesotans and Wisconsinites. | |||||||||||
| Also included are an Yvette Guilbert concert program, Chicago (Jan.); letters from J. P. Morgan and Company summoning Winter to New York City (May-June); a confidential congratulatory note from M. L. Sykes, Omaha vice-president, on Winter's then unannounced NP presidency (June 19); a newspaper galley announcing his selection as NP president (June 23); official notice of his resignation from the Omaha (July 3); the invitation, letters, and memorandum from a dinner honoring Winter, given by his St. Paul friends (Dec.); and a letter from Edward D. Adams, NP director, discussing forces trying to cause distrust between Winter and himself (Dec.). | |||||||||||
| 1897-1899. | |||||||||||
| Includes letters from Edward D. Adams concerning a Minneapolis Times interview with James J. Hill regarding GN control of the NP (Feb. 1897), Winter's resignation as NP president (April 1897), and false rumors that Adams forced Winter's resignation (June 1897); from Brayton Ives, an NP director, regarding the rumors of a GN takeover of the NP (March 1897); from M. L. Sykes concerning Bay Land and Improvement Company stock sales (May 1897); and from numerous friends and colleagues supporting his NP resignation (May-Aug. 1897); other letters and newspaper galleys regarding his resignation; and bills, receipts, poems, and ink sketches from his 1899 trip to the Mediterranean, Middle East, and Italy. | |||||||||||
| 1900-1905. | |||||||||||
| Includes a request for passes from the Cleveland, Lorain and Wheeling Railway Company board of directors, of which Winter was chairman (1900); a hand-drawn ink sketch of Winter (March 1901); correspondence concerning the operation and finances of the BRT (1903-1905), particularly with Frank M. Baker (New York Board of Commissioners), A. N. Brady (BRT board chairman), and H. H. Porter (BRT director); Winter's statement on the proposed contract of several traction companies for the joint use of the Williamsburg Bridge (May 1904); a letter from Charles E. Otis, St. Paul lawyer, concerning Winter's resignation as an Amherst H. Wilder Charity director (Nov. 1904); letters from Jacob A. Riis concerning his Neighborhood Settlement in New York City (Dec. 1905); and a Christmas letter from Winter's son, Wallace C. (Dec. 1905). | |||||||||||
| 1906-1907. | |||||||||||
| Mainly BRT-related correspondence, the main correspondents being H. H. Porter, Marvin Hughitt, Frank M. Baker, and H. G. Prout. Also includes letters from Vivian Burnett, a New York City author, concerning her new magazine The Children's World (Jan. 1906, Feb. 1907); W. A. Gardner's review of an article by Winter in The Third Rail (June 1906); and an invitation from R. P. Fogbaum, New York City, to view his painting of the "Charge of the First Minnesota" (Dec. 1906). | |||||||||||
| 1908-1910. | |||||||||||
| Also contains a large number of BRT-related letters, including congratulations on Winter's remarks at a Brooklyn League meeting (April-May 1908), an invitation to the Williamsburg Bridge (New York City) dedication (Sept. 1908), and correspondence with Walter G. Oakman and E. H. Harriman concerning BRT's finances (May 1909). Also includes letters from Thomas Lowry inviting him to Hot Springs, Arizona (March 1908) and from Marvin Hughitt discussing A. B. Stickney's railroad career (April 1908); correspondence with Gustav H. Schwab concerning the development of New York City's transit systems (Oct. 1908); and the program from a dinner honoring Jose Carlos Rodrigues, Journal de Commercio (Rio de Janeiro) editor (May 1909). | |||||||||||
| 1911-1921. | |||||||||||
| The main body consists of letters of regret over Winter's BRT resignation (Jan.-Feb. 1911). Also contains letters from A. N. Brady accepting Winter's resignation (Jan. 1911) and discussing administration changes at the BRT (Feb. 1911); the program and menu from a BRT dinner in Winter's honor (Feb. 1911); notice of elections and meetings of the Century Association (Jan. 1912) and the MacDowell Club (April 1912); correspondence concerning Chicago and Eastern Illinois Railroad Company stocks (May 1913); program and testimonial letter from a dinner honoring William Winter, journalist and poet (March 1916); booklet and flyers about Yvette Guilbert, lyrical actress and singer (Oct.-Dec. 1916); letters from a wounded French soldier, Fernand Dussert, discussing his pre-war work for a French glove manufacturer (June 1918); and a letter from George D. Yeomans, BRT general counsel, thanking Winter for giving him his first chance in 1905 (Dec. 1921). | |||||||||||
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| P1451 | 2 | Speeches, undated and 1890-1908. | |||||||||
| Contains a number of undated speeches concerning transit facilities in the greater New York City area; Winter's speeches given at the 1890 Barnard School (St. Paul) commencement, a St. Paul dinner given in his honor as NP president (1896), a BRT board meeting immediately prior to his nomination as president (1903), and a Flatbush (New York) Tax Payers Association meeting (1907); and a booklet containing addresses given at the Brooklyn League's tenth annual banquet, including Winter's speech describing New York City's transit systems (1908). | |||||||||||
| Printed materials, 1894-1910. | |||||||||||
| Contains A. B. Stickney's undated pamphlet, "A Western Trunk Line Railway without a Mortgage - A Short History of the Finances of the Chicago Great Western Railway Company"; J. G. Pyle's pamphlet on cheap money and free silver coinage (1894); the Penny Magazine, Vol. 1, No. 1, La Crescent, Minnesota (Jan. 1899); the pamphlet "Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company, A Study of a Leading Traction Security" (Dec. 1909); and the Josepthal, Loucheim and Company (New York) weekly market letter, featuring the BRT (June 1910). | |||||||||||
| Clippings, undated and 1881-1908. | |||||||||||
| Includes articles on Winter's collection of rare etchings and his Omaha superintendency (undated); the operation of the Minneapolis, Sault Ste. Marie, and Atlantic Railway (Nov. 1888); Winter's election as NP president, with biographical sketches of Winter and his ten predecessors (June-July 1896); the NP partial purchase of the NP Railroad Company's property at an auction in Superior, Wisconsin (July 1896) and the NP officials' trip to Portland to purchase the NP Railroad Company lands in Oregon (Aug. 1896); Winter's October 1896 trip to Seattle, Washington and Butte, Montana; a dinner given in his honor in St. Paul (Dec. 1896); his resignation as NP president and his inability to work with James J. Hill (1897); the Jacob A. Riis Neighborhood Settlement (New York City) fund drive (1905); and the operation of the BRT (1908). | |||||||||||
| Transcripts: The Association to Advance Psychic Knowledge, 1922-1923. | |||||||||||
| Contains transcripts and notes from numerous seances held by the members of this New York association, of which Winter was a member. Included among the deceased contacted during the seances and noted in the transcripts are former Minnesota governor Alexander Ramsey (Dec. 1922), Winter's wife Elizabeth (Feb., April 1923), and a childhood companion of Winter, Mary Sheldon (April 1923). Handwritten notes from an undated seance attended by Winter and his daughter Laura Winter Dean, contain comments on contacts with Elizabeth Winter and several former Twin Citians. | |||||||||||
| Letterpress books: | |||||||||||
| The letterpress books contain Winter's outgoing business and personal letters. The business letters deal mainly with his various railroad positions in the Omaha and its predecessors (1878-July 1896), the NP (Aug. 1896-1897), the Cleveland, Lorain and Wheeling Railway Company (1900-1901), and the BRT (1902-1911). They detail such operational and financial matters as personnel, fares and rates, hiring, passes, land purchases and property titles, job offers, recommendations, stock and bond sales, accounting practices, relations with other transportation companies, replies to invitations, introductions, and thank-yous. Major correspondents include Henry H. Porter (Omaha and BRT official), F. H. Peavey (Minneapolis businessman), Marvin Hughitt (C&NW president), R. P. Flower and Company (New York City stockbrokers), Henry D. Minot (Eastern Railway Co. of Minnesota president), Edward D. Adams (NP chairman), A. N. Brady (BRT chairman), J. L. Greatsinger (BRT president prior to Winter), and Frank M. Baker (New York Board of Commissioners). | |||||||||||
| The personal correspondence deals mainly with Winter's various real estate holdings, especially those in Wisconsin with J. C. Spooner, his stock investments, and his corporate directorships. Major personal correspondents include Spooner, Winter's brother Charles, and son Wallace C. | |||||||||||
| Volume 1. December 1878-February 1890. | |||||||||||
| Contains business letters detailing Winter's wish to resign if necessary for the reorganization of the Omaha (Feb. 1882); the transfer of the line's presidency from H. H. Porter to Marvin Hughitt (Dec. 1882); salaries of the Omaha's officers (undated); Winter's feelings on the future of the St. Paul, Minneapolis and Manitoba Railway Company (Oct. 1884); and Winter's declination of an offer to become second vice-president of the NP Railroad on the Pacific coast (Nov. 1885). Also included are scattered expense accounts and the Omaha's annual balance sheets (1883-1884, 1887-1889) and inventories (1884-1887). | |||||||||||
| The personal correspondence includes a long-running series with J. C. Spooner concerning their mutual land holdings in Superior and West Superior, Wisconsin. Other letters concern the 1881 design and construction and 1884 remodeling of his St. Paul home, along with a cost statement to December 31, 1881 (p. 107); his land holdings with W. R. Marshall and F. B. Clarke in Winter's Addition to St. Paul (1882-1883); his stock holdings and investments; his trusteeship of land owned by H. H. Porter (1881-1882); his participation in the Bay Land and Improvement Company (1883); statements of the Duluth Improvement Company settlement (Nov. 1887) and the sale of its Duluth property (1888); and an undated biographical sketch for The Railway Biographical Dictionary. | |||||||||||
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| P1451 | 2 | Volume 2. March 1890-September 1897. | |||||||||
| Business correspondence details the Omaha's contribution to Minnesota governor W. R. Merriam's campaign (Sept. 1892); reorganization of the line's eastern and northern divisions (Nov. 1892); construction on its Itasca (Minnesota) property (Nov.-Dec. 1894); changes in its claims department (Dec. 1895); Omaha balance sheets (1893-1895) and inventories (1891-1892) and Itasca balance sheets (1894-1895); directions to Charles H. Coster, New York City, to immediately notify Winter if James J. Hill gained control of the NP (Feb.-April 1897); and Winter's resignation as NP president (May-June 1897). | |||||||||||
| The personal correspondence concerns his involvement in the West Superior Land and City Improvement Company (undated) and the Northern Nebraska (July 1893) and Lake Phalen (Jan. 1894) land companies; his ownership of Duluth Transfer Railway Company (July 1890) and North Standard Telephone Company stock (May 1895); his declination of a St. Paul Title Insurance and Trust Company directorship (undated), and resignation as a member of its executive committee (July 1896); a list of property stolen from his St. Paul home (Sept. 1892); and lists of his property in Minnesota (April 1892) and Wisconsin (Dec. 1892, May 1897). | |||||||||||
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| P1451 | 3 | Volume 3. June 1899; May 1900-July 1904; 1906; 1908. | |||||||||
| The business correspondence includes letters to H. H. Porter concerning Winter's future in railroading (June 1899) and an inspection trip on the Evansville and Terre Haute Railway Company (April 1902); to F. D. Underwood, Baltimore and Ohio Railroad general manager, concerning the NP takeover of the Cleveland, Lorain and Wheeling Railway Company (Feb. 1901), and Winter's resignation as its chairman (April 1901); and a large series (1903-1911) detailing Winter's role in the BRT, including his early changes in its organization, his presidency (1903), financial dealings, and the company's daily operations. | |||||||||||
| The personal correspondence contains a list of Winter's St. Paul taxes (May 1900); letters describing his initiation into the Chicago Club and resignation from the Union League Club, Chicago (May 1900); and letters to J. C. Spooner regarding their mutual real estate holdings in West Superior (1900-1901), and his personal finances and children's trusts (April-May 1901). | |||||||||||
| Volume 4. February 1903-January 1911. | |||||||||||
| Includes an alphabetical index; pages 446-500 are blank. | |||||||||||
| The business correspondence deals exclusively with his BRT presidency and includes his corporate progress report to the company's directors (Feb. 1904); letters regarding his intended resignation (Dec. 1904, May-June 1907, Jan. 1911); and a letter to A. N. Brady (BRT chairman) recapping the BRT's 1907-1908 fiscal year (Nov. 1908). | |||||||||||
| The personal correspondence again concerns his Wisconsin land holdings and his personal finances, and also includes letters regarding his involvement in the Lake Phalen Land and Improvement Company (June 1904-1907), construction of a summer home in Little Compton, Rhode Island (Sept. 1904-July 1905), resignation as an Amherst H. Wilder Charity director (Nov. 1904), membership in the St. Paul Real Estate Syndicate (Feb. 1908), and the possibility of turning over the management of his real estate to his son Wallace and son-in-law William J. Dean (May 1909). | |||||||||||
| Volume 5. Scrapbook: Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company, 1903-1911. | |||||||||||
| Contains clippings and other papers documenting Winter's BRT presidency. The clippings detail Winter's advisory role to the BRT (Nov.-Dec. 1902); his move into the presidency (Feb. 1903); his views on operational and financial problems, including congestion on the Williamsburg Bridge (1905-1906); the BRT's first dividend (1907), its relations with local politicians (1906-1907), and its approval by the New York Public Service Commission (Dec. 1907); Winter's views on the abuse of transfers (1908); his 1910 trip to Egypt; and his retirement (1911). | |||||||||||
| The other papers include correspondence between Winter and Reverend Newell Dwight Hillis concerning passenger comfort on the BRT (May 1903-Jan. 1904); a poem by Wallace C. Winter concerning the railroad commission's involvement in the BRT (Feb. 1905); a copy of Winter's speech on local transportation (Nov. 1906); his Christmas message to BRT employees (Dec. 1906); and a notice to the BRT's board of directors concerning dividends (Feb. 1909). | |||||||||||
| +122 | Oversize papers: | ||||||||||
| Article, Northwest Magazine, July 1896. | |||||||||||
| Concerns Winter's election to the NP presidency. | |||||||||||
| Article, Railroad Gazette, May 7, 1897. | |||||||||||
| Details Winter's resignation as NP president. | |||||||||||
| Article, Railroad Gazette, May 10-17, 1907. | |||||||||||
| Describes Winter's rehabilitation of the BRT. | |||||||||||
| Galley Proof of Williamsburg Bridge (New York City) dedication page, Brooklyn Daily Eagle, September 1908. | |||||||||||
| Includes a photograph of Winter. | |||||||||||
| Photograph, Yale football team, circa 1910s. Photocopy. | |||||||||||
| One member is marked; probably Winter's grandson, Wallace Winter, who attended Yale during that period. | |||||||||||
| Newspaper clippings, undated and 1892-1918. 12 items. | |||||||||||
| Due to their rapidly deteriorating condition, the clippings were photocopied in April 1984 and the originals discarded. Includes clippings on the scarlet fever death of Winter's young son (undated); the May 28, 1892 deaths from pneumonia of his mother-in-law and his wife Elizabeth Cannon Winter; his election and resignation as NP president; his presidency of the BRT, with comments on its operations and finances (1907-1908); his resignation from the BRT (1911); and his grandson Wallace Winter's training and service as a World War I flyer in France (1918). | |||||||||||
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:
- Building -- Prices -- Minnesota -- Saint Paul.
- Education -- Illinois.
- Local transit -- New York (State) -- New York.
- Railroads -- Employees.
- Railroads -- Finance.
- Railroads -- Freight -- Rates.
- Railroads -- Management.
- Railroads -- Mergers.
- Railroads -- Minnesota.
- Railroads -- New York (State) -- New York.
- Railroads -- United States.
- Railroads -- Wisconsin.
- Real property -- Minnesota -- Saint Paul.
- Real property -- Wisconsin.
- Spiritualism.
- Stocks -- United States.
- Street-railroads -- Minnesota.
- Street-railroads -- New York (State) -- New York.
- Transportation -- United States.
- Urban transportation -- New York (State) -- New York.
- World War, 1914-1918 -- Aerial operations.
- Places:
- Europe -- Description and travel.
- Mediterranean Sea -- Description and travel.
- Vermont -- Social life and customs.
- Williamsburg Bridge (New York, N.Y.).
- Persons:
- Adams, Edward Dean, 1846-1931.
- Baker, Frank M.
- Baker, Anthony Nicholas, 1843-1913.
- Clarke, Francis Byron, 1839-1911.
- Flower, Roswell Pettibone, 1835-1899.
- Guilbert, Yvette, 1865-1944.
- Hill, James J. (James Jerome), 1838-1899.
- Hillis, Newell Dwight, 1858-1899.
- Howe, James Henry, 1827-1893.
- Hughitt, Marvin, 1837-1928.
- Lowry, Thomas, 1843-1909.
- Manvel, Allen, 1837-1893.
- Minot, Henry D., [1860?]-1890.
- Newman, William H., 1847-1918.
- Peavey, Frank Hutchinson, 1850-1901.
- Porter, Henry H., 1835-1910.
- Prout, H. G.
- Pyle, Joseph Gilpin, 1853-1930.
- Ramsey, Alexander, 1815-1903.
- Riis, Jacob A. (Jacob August), 1849-1914.
- Schwab, Gustav Henry, 1851-1912.
- Spooner, John C. (John Coit), 1843-1919.
- Stickney, A. B. (Alpheus Beede), 1840-1916.
- Sykes, Martin Luther, 1826-.
- Winter, Wallace Charles, 1872-.
- Winter, William, 1836-1917.
- Winters family.
- Organizations:
- Association to Advance Psychic Knowledge.
- Bay and Improvement Company (Washburn, Wis.).
- Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company.
- Chicago and North Western Railway Company.
- Chicago Great Western Railway Company (1892-1909).
- Chicago, St. Paul, and Minneapolis Railway Company.
- Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis & Omaha Railroad.
- Cleveland, Lorain and Wheeling Railway Company.
- Duluth Improvement Company (Duluth, Minn.).
- Duluth Transfer Railway Company (Duluth, Minn.).
- Lake Phalen Land and Improvement Company (Saint Paul, Minn.).
- Minneapolis Street Railway Company.
- North Nebraska Land and Improvement Company.
- Northern Pacific Railway Company.
- Jacob A. Riis Neighborhood Settlement (New York, N.Y.).
- Saint Paul Chamber of Commerce (1867-1904).
- Seymour, Wallace and Co.
- St. Paul and Duluth Railroad Company.
- Union Pacific Railroad Company.
- West Superior Land and City Improvement Company (West Superior, Wis.).
- Western Wisconsin Railway Company.
- Yale University -- Football.
- Types of Documents:
- Reminiscences.
- Speeches.
- Titles:
- Penny magazine (La Crescent, Minn.).
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