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Southern Railway (U.S.)

 Organization

Found in 7 Collections and/or Records:

Alfred Austell papers

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS29
Scope and Content These papers consist of various business and legal documents related to Alfred Austell's numerous business ventures. Included are land deeds, bookkeeping notes, checks, property insurance policies, bills, receipts, and photocopies of pages from Austell's letter book dealing with banking business, sale of cotton, and property acquisition and payment of personal notes. This collection also contains two pocket files, which are listed by month. The contents of these files have been left in...
Dates: 1833-1962; Majority of material found within 1833 - 1889

Atlanta Joint Terminals collection

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS381
Scope and Content

This collection contains organization records and employee records pertaining to the Atlanta Joint Terminal. Included are time books and payroll records as well as blueprints.

Dates: 1921-1952

Chattahoochee Brick Company records

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS83
Scope and Content The Chattahoochee Brick Company documents contain business records that show the daily operation of the company through its financial, production, legal, and management operations. Most papers date to the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. Financial documents include cash journals, reports, record books, accounts, and ledgers. Production documents include inventories, reports, and a catalogue. Legal materials include land grands, deeds, and indentures that relate to land...
Dates: 1821-1941, undated

James E. Williams papers

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS329
Scope and Content This collection documents Williams family members and their businesses, including letters, bills, and receipts. There are three bound books: a checkbook from 1854, Williams company account book from 1859, and a scrapbook from 1904-1905. There are also several Confederate bond receipts and checks, letters from the field, a parole, monthly subsistence papers, a land indenture, and a broadside of a speach James's WIlliams gave in Atlanta. Other items include a fire insurance policy dated...
Dates: 1820-1905, undated

John Howard Stine papers

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS852
Scope and Content

This collection contains a wide variety of technical manuals, operation logs, and repair guides. These were designed to assist engineers in diagnosing and correcting problems on the Southern Railway locomotives of the 1940s and 1950s. Other articles include newspaper clippings and magazines on the history of Southern Railway, personnel rosters, train schedules, and some of Stein's personal papers.

Dates: 1881-1989, undated

Southern Railway records

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS1257
Scope and Contents This collection contains records created by Southern Railway, and records created by its predecessor railroads, railways, and companies. Records include annual financial and inspection reports, meeting minute proceedings, construction contracts, correspondence, publications, and company ephemera.The bulk of the materials are Southern Railway contracts and the predecessor records. More than 3,000 contracts illustrate the history of the company through the construction of train...
Dates: 1828-1996, undated

Whittier Cotton Mills records

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS558
Scope and Contents The bulk of this collection is correspondence that Whittier Cotton Mills received from local and national suppliers and clients such as Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. and Southern Railroad. Other correspondence documents product pricing and sales, some of which includes interoffice memos; the construction of new company housing and plant #5; receipt of bids; and construction contracts with Silver Lake Company. The collection also contains payroll checks. Of particular note are invoices and...
Dates: 1897-1933 (bulk 1926-1933)