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Manuscript Collection Inventory Illinois History and Lincoln Collections University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Manuscript Collection Inventory Illinois History and Lincoln Collections University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Note: Unless otherwise specified, documents and other materials listed on the following pages are available for research at the Illinois Historical and Lincoln Collections, located in the Main Library of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Additional background information about the manuscript collection inventoried is recorded in the Manuscript Collections Database (http://www.library.illinois.edu/ihx/archon/index.php) under the collection title; search by the name listed at the top of the inventory to locate the corresponding collection record in the database. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Illinois History and Lincoln Collections http://www.library.illinois.edu/ihx/index.html phone: (217) 333-1777 email: [email protected] 1 Lichtenstern, William. Photograph Collection, 1906-1972. Box 1 Aurora, Elgin & Fox River, 1934 Baltimore & Ohio, 1934, 1948-1949, and 1972 Burlington Northern, 1972 Cairo Railway & Light Company, 1909 Central of Georgia, 1971 Chicago, Aurora, & DeKalb, 1935 and undated Chicago, Aurora, & Elgin, 1909-1957 and undated (4 folders) Chicago, Burlington, & Quincy, 1934-1972 (5 folders) Chicago & Calumet District Transit, 1933 and 1937 Chicago City Railway, 1938, 1948, and undated Chicago Great Western, 1940-1949 and undated Chicago & Joliet Electric Railway, undated Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul, & Pacific, 1934-1948 Chicago, North Shore, & Milwaukee, 1932-1963 and undated (3 folders) Chicago & North Western, 1936-1949 and undated (4 folders; folders 1- 2) Box 2 Chicago & North Western, 1936-1949 and undated (4 folders; folders 3- 4) Note: The original folder containing the photographs in folder 4 was labeled "Engines Scenes T/M" [in black ink], "Aug 23 1970 All Numbered 75" [in blue ink], and "ML 12-9-76" [in red ink]. Chicago, Ottawa, & Peoria Railway, 1906, 1910, and undated Chicago Rapid Transit, 1929-1972 (7 folders) Chicago, Rock Island, & Pacific, 1949-1950 and 1971 Chicago South Shore & South Bend, 1933-1934, 1949, and undated Chicago & South Side Rapid Transit, undated 2 Chicago Surface Lines, 1948-1950 and undated (5 folders) Box 3 Chicago Transit Authority, 1964 (2 folders) Chicago & West Towns Railway, 1934 and 1959 Chicago miscellaneous photographs, 1960, 1971, and undated East St. Louis & Suburban Railway, 1909-1913 Galesburg & Kewanee Electric Railway, 1907 and undated Hammond, Whiting, & East Chicago Railway, 1916 and undated Hutchinson Interurban Railway, undated Illinois Central Electric Railway, 1912 and undated Illinois Central Railroad, 1934-1971 and undated (11 folders) Note: The original folder containing photographs in folder 11 was labeled "Sep 6 1970 All Numbered 75" [in blue ink] and "ML Dec 1976 5" [in red ink]. Box 4 Illinois Power Company, 1933 and undated Illinois Power and Light Service, 1937 and undated Illinois Terminal Railroad, 1909-1956 and undated (6 folders) Note: Folder 3 also includes some photographs that are labeled "Illinois Terminal Railroad" but which depict cars marked "Illinois Traction System." Illinois Traction System, 1907-1910, 1932-1934, and undated (2 folders) Note: Folder 1 also includes some photographs that are labeled "Illinois Traction System" or "ITS" but which depict cars marked "Illinois Terminal Railroad System." Folder 1 also includes a photograph of Bill Janssen and Bill Lichtenstern standing on the anticlimber of a car at the Peoria, Illinois Station in 1934. Interstate Service Corporation, undated Joliet & Eastern Railway, undated Joliet & Eastern Traction, undated 3 Joliet, Plainfield, & Aurora, undated Nashville Interurban Railway, 1910 Peoria & Pekin Terminal Railway, undated Quincy Railway, 1910 and undated Seaboard Coast Line, 1971 Shaker Heights, 1948-1949 (3 folders) Southern Illinois Railway, 1913 Springfield Traction, 1907 and 1911 St. Louis Electric Terminal Railway (a division of the Illinois Terminal Railroad System), 1935 Union Pacific Railroad, 1972 Wabash, 1933-1934 and 1947-1949 Walla Walla Valley, 1906 and 1914 Single photographs of miscellaneous companies and lines (6 folders, arranged alphabetically) .
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