Samuel Matthews Vauclain papers

Vauclain was the president of the Baldwin Locomotive Works. The material reports on production and sales and is inconsistent in subject and chronology: advertising department memoranda, 1920; cabinet meeting minutes, 1923-1924; comptroller's reports, 1920-1921, 1924, 1928; domestic sales depa...

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Main Author: Vauclain, Samuel M. (Samuel Matthews) 1856-1940. (Creator)
Collection:Samuel Matthews Vauclain Papers
Collection Number:1900A
Format: Manuscript
Language:English
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099 |a 1900A 
100 1 |a Vauclain, Samuel M. (Samuel Matthews)  |d 1856-1940.  |e creator 
245 1 |a Samuel Matthews Vauclain papers  |f 1905-1931 
300 |a 3.8 Linear feet  |f ; 8 boxes, 2 volumes 
520 |a Vauclain was the president of the Baldwin Locomotive Works. The material reports on production and sales and is inconsistent in subject and chronology: advertising department memoranda, 1920; cabinet meeting minutes, 1923-1924; comptroller's reports, 1920-1921, 1924, 1928; domestic sales department reports, 1919-1920, 1924; drawing room reports and memoranda, 1920-1921, 1923-1924; foreign sales department coded telegrams from Europe, 1923; personnel records, 1919-1920; general superintendent reports, 1923-1926; and vice-president in charge of manufacture memoranda, 1919. There is also correspondence, 1905, on locomotives for the Atchinson, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railway; scrapbook with miscellaneous correspondence and newspaper clippings on Baldwin Locomotive's war work; photographs of the Baldwin Locomotive Works and of Vauclain as chairman of the Philadelphia Gas Works Commission; letters, 1909, from Vauclain's family while they traveled in Europe; and family photographs. 
541 1 |a Purchased.; 1965 acquired 
650 7 |a Advertising--20th century.  |2 Local sources 
650 7 |a Manufacturing--Philadelphia--20th century  |2 Local sources 
650 7 |a Railroad Equipment--20th Century.  |2 Local sources 
650 7 |a World War, 1914-1918--Home front.  |2 Local sources 
650 7 |a World War, 1914-1918--Mobilization and Wartime Manufacturing  |2 Local sources 
852 |a The Historical Society of Pennsylvania  |b Samuel Matthews Vauclain Papers  |c 1900A