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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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| Collection: | Samuel Matthews Vauclain Papers |
| Collection Number: | 1900A |
| Format: | Manuscript |
| Language: | English |
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3.8 Linear feet ; 8 boxes, 2 volumes |
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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. |