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George A. Foreman Philadelphia Transportation Company photograph and ephemera album, 1940-1949 [Volume 2]
Volume 2 [formerly Volume 59]:
The date range of the volume is 1940 to 1949 and its contents are quite varied. It contains holiday cards, mostly from 1946 and 1947, and newspaper clippings from the Evening Bulletin and Public Ledger including obituaries for PTC employee...
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| Collection: | George A. Foreman scrapbooks on Philadelphia Transportation Company (#3267) |
| Date: | 1940-01-01/1949-12-31 |
| Dimensions: | 16 x 10.5 cm |
| Call Number: | 3267 |
| Volume Number: | Volume 2 [formerly 59] |
| Format: | Electronic |
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| Copyright: | Please contact Historical Society of Pennsylvania Rights and Reproductions (rnr@hsp.org) |
| Online Access: | https://digitallibrary.hsp.org/index.php/Detail/objects/14038 |
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George A. Foreman Philadelphia Transportation Company photograph and ephemera album, 1940-1949 [Volume 2] |
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George A. Foreman Philadelphia Transportation Company photograph and ephemera album, 1940-1949 [Volume 2] George A. Foreman, 1881-1950 Mass transit Photograph albums Photograph collections Public transportation Work environment Philadelphia Transportation Company |
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George A. Foreman Philadelphia Transportation Company photograph and ephemera album, 1940-1949 [Volume 2] |
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George A. Foreman Philadelphia Transportation Company photograph and ephemera album, 1940-1949 [Volume 2] |
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1940-01-01/1949-12-31 |
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1940 |
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George A. Foreman, 1881-1950 (Creator) |
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George A. Foreman, 1881-1950 |
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Photograph albums Scrapbooks Clipping Ephemera |
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16 x 10.5 cm |
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Volume 2 [formerly Volume 59]:<br /> The date range of the volume is 1940 to 1949 and its contents are quite varied. It contains holiday cards, mostly from 1946 and 1947, and newspaper clippings from the <em>Evening Bulletin</em> and <em>Public Ledger</em> including obituaries for PTC employees, an article profiling a female cashier, and articles on the history of railroads in the area. There are short bios of PTC employees (many with photographs missing) detailing the positions they held, where they lived, and personal interests such as “fond of Gilbert and Sullivan” or a member in a particular Orient or Masonic lodge. Additionally, there is a handwritten index of local railroads in the area and a photograph of A. A. Mitten, who succeeded his father Thomas E. Mitten as president of the Philadelphia Rapid Transit Company (PRT), the predecessor of PTC.<br /> <br /> Names listed:<br /> Celian, Cecilia; Burk, Ruth; Bottomley, Anne; Black, Anna M.; Berryman, Henry J.; Berryman, Maud; Beswick, Herbert; Beswick,; Anna Biles; Bay, Birger E.; Bansbach, Edith M.; Wyatt, Joseph; Wyatt, George; McCabe, Mary F.; McCabe, Richard Paul; Rodgers, William E.; Roeder, Maude E.; Rock, Margaret; Roach, John P.; Reinnert, Emily; Rhile, William H.; Reynolds, Audrey; Reilly, Marie; Nunn, Roscoe A.; O'Reilly, Joseph T.; O.Connor, John J.; Newell, Thomas; Neinstead, Harry M.; Neinstead, Emma; Nalbach, Elizabeth N.; Murphy, Vincent de Paul; Murphy, Emma L.; Murray, Jerry; Moore, A. Davis; Morrison, Robert John; Ziert, William; Morgan, John E.; Mitchell, Howard W.<br /> Mitten, Dr. A. A.<br /> <br /> Places listed:<br /> Upper Darby; 69th Street Terminal; Chester County<br /> <br /> This digital record contains images that depict the entire described item. |
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LCSH: Mass transit LCSH: Photograph albums LCSH: Photograph collections LCSH: Public transportation LCSH: Work environment LCSH: Philadelphia Transportation Company |
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Mass transit Photograph albums Photograph collections Public transportation Work environment Philadelphia Transportation Company |
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Please contact Rights and Reproduction for more information. |
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Volume 2 [formerly 59] |
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