Railroads.

Form of Material

This collection contains the digitized copies of Gulf, Mobile & Northern Railroad News, circa 1920’s.

Scope and Contents

Organizational records of the Association of American Railroads; the Gulf, Mobile, and Ohio Railroad; the Mississippi Central Railroad; and the Illinois Central.

Form of Material Promotional card for the Railroad Exhibit at the 1939 World’s Fair in New York mailed to Master Steve Blair, Jr., in New York City on July 22, 1939. The card is inscribed:Railroad Exhibit, New York World’s Fair 1939U.S. Railway Post Office Car, NYC 4868See the historic, colorful pageant, Railroads on Parade, presented four times daily. The envelope is postmarked “New York World’s Fair” with a Territorial Centennial 1838-1938 stamp....

Scope and Contents This collection consists of more than one hundred seventy stock and bond certificates issued from the mid 1800's to the early 1900's by various railroad companies throughout the North Eastern and Mid-Western United States. A few bond certificates issued by the city of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania are also present. Many of the documents are decoratively and intricately illustrated. Some display images of nature, trains, lumber work, and railroad structures, and nearly all contain vital...

Scope and Contents

Large collection of books, printed material, and memorabilia related to Mississippi and other subjects.

Scope and Contents

One autograph letter written by Southern Railroad Company Secretary N. G. Bryson to Mississippi & Alabama Railroad Company Secretary A. J. McConnico concerning money owed by the Southern Railroad Company to the Mississippi & Alabama Railroad Company. The money was credited to an account at the Bank of New Orleans. Bryson also mentions checks and receipts which he requests that McConnico credit to a ticket balance account.

Abstract

The Tatum family were prominent owners of businesses and land in and around the Hattiesburg, Mississippi area beginning in 1893 with the establishment of their first lumber mill. The collection contains financial records, personal papers, photographs, blueprints, newspaper articles, maps and artifacts of the Tatum family’s business dealings as well as local Hattiesburg history, including W. S. F. Tatum’s mayoral term from 1922 to 1924 and again from 1928 to 1936.