Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad Company Records - Historical and Printed Materials
Scope and Content of the Collection
Materials summarizing the history of the CB&Q and its branches, including official documents such as annual reports and minutes of Board meetings, contracts, memoranda, and official publications (such as printed letters from the president, and in-house newsletters for CB&Q employees). Secondary histories about the railroad and affiliated topics are also filed here. Also includes materials printed by and for the railroad meant to be disseminated either in-house or out to the public. These include printed circulars, scrapbooks of printed and collected material, pamphlets, timetables, tickets, and miscellaneous printed ephemera. In addition, the record group contains the research files of Richard C. Overton, historian for the CB&Q and author of the definitive history of the road, Burlington Route (University of Nebraska Press, 1965).
Forms part of the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad Company Records.
This finding aid supersedes the Guide to the Burlington Archives in the Newberry Library, 1851-1901 (Chicago: Newberry Library, 1949), and incorporates subsequent additions to the company records. Certain materials have been deaccessioned and donated to the Burlington Route Historical Society; see curator for details.
Original title for this Record Group, in the 1949 printed guide, is "General."
Dates
- Creation: 1849-1999
Creator
- Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad Company (Organization)
Language
Materials are in English.
Conditions Governing Access
The Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad Company Records are open for research in the Special Collections Reading Room; 1 box at a time (Priority III).
Ownership and Literary Rights
The Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad Company Records are the physical property of the Newberry Library. Copyright may belong to the authors or their legal heirs or assigns. For permission to publish or reproduce any materials from this collection, contact the Roger and Julie Baskes Department of Special Collections at reference@newberry.org.
Extent
132 Linear Feet (172 boxes, 89 volumes, 8 record cartons, 7 oversize boxes, 2 flat file folders, and 4 index card boxes)
Abstract
Official and unofficial histories of the company, annual reports, in-house newsletters, circulars, scrapbooks, timetables, pamphlets, and research files produced by the CB&Q and its historians. Forms part of the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad Company Records.
Organization
Papers are organized in the following series:
- Series 32.1: Corporate Histories, 1872-1940s
- Boxes 1-2; +1
- Series 32.12: Annual Reports to the Board of Directors and Stockholders (printed and typescript), 1854-1968
- Volumes 1-17; Boxes 3-5
- Series 32.13: Annual Reports (manuscript), 1878-1909
- Boxes 6-13
- Series 32.15: H.C. Murphy - Monthly letters to Directors, 1954-1965
- Box 14
- Series 32.16: Miscellaneous Reports to the Board of Directors, 1935-1966
- Box 15
- Series 32.2: Records, Minute Books, 1849-1902
- Volumes +1-5; Boxes 16-27; +1
- Series 32.3: Contracts, 1852-1900
- Boxes 28-37
- Series 32.32: Records of Leases of Railroads and Bridges and Trackage Contracts, 1868-1895
- Box 37
- Series 32.4: License Book, 1860-1905
- Box 38
- Series 32.5: Record Book of Trust Mortgages and Agreements, Covering the Years 1858-1882
- Box 38
- Series 32.6: Daily Journals, 1869, 1876-1919
- Volumes 1-61
- Series 32.61: Daily Log Books, Private Car 200, 1887-1903
- Box 39
- Series 32.7: Memoranda: President's office, 1862-1918
- Volumes +1-2; Boxes 40-60; Box +2
- Series 32.8: Circulars, 1857-1968
- Boxes 61-92; +3-6
- Series 32.81: Scrapbooks, 1862-1963
- Volumes +1-6; Boxes 93-112; Box +6
- Series 32.82: Employee Newsletters, 1913, 1935-1967
- Boxes 113-115
- Series 32.9: Pamphlets and Printed Ephemera, 1850s-1999
- Boxes 116-135; +7
- Series 32.91: Artifacts and Realia, ca. 1880s-1950s
- Boxes 136-137; +8; flat file drawer 1
- Series 32.92: Posters / Broadsides, 1856-1999
- Boxes 137; +8-11; flat file drawer 1
- Series 32.93: Timetables, 1854-1970
- Boxes 138-178
- Series 32.94: Overton, ca. 1880-1978
- Boxes 179-213
- Series 32.95: Reminiscences and Historical Works, 1903-1983
- Boxes 214-219
Collection Stack Location
4a 37 8-14, 4a 40 1, 4a 41 1, 4a flat file, Artifact Cage
Provenance
Deposit of the Chicago, Burlington, and Quincy Company, 1943, with subsequent additions, 1948-onward. Ownership transferred to Newberry Library by Burlington Northern Company, 1975.
Processed by
Martha Briggs, Alison Hinderliter, Lisa Janssen, Kelly Kress, Emma Martin, Andrew Olofsson, and Pamela Olson, 2014.
Subject
- Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad Company (Organization)
Genre / Form
- Advertisements -- 1851-1900
- Advertisements -- 1901-1950
- Booklets -- 1851-1900
- Booklets -- 1901-1950
- Circulars (fliers) -- 1851-1900
- Circulars (fliers) -- 1901-1950
- Circulars (fliers) -- 1951-2000
- Identity cards
- Letterheads -- 1901-1950
- Pamphlets -- 1851-1900
- Pamphlets -- 1901-1950
- Posters -- 1851-1900
- Posters -- 1901-1950
- Posters -- 1951-2000
- Tickets -- 1851-1900
- Tickets -- 1901-1950
Geographic
Topical
- Title
- Inventory of the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad Company Records - Historical and Printed Materials, 1849-1999
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Alison Hinderliter and Kelly Kress
- Date
- ©2014.
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
Repository Details
Part of the The Newberry Library - Modern Manuscripts and Archives Repository
60 West Walton Street
Chicago Illinois 60610 United States
312-255-3512
reference@newberry.org