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The Archives at the Southern Museum of Civil War and Locomotive History houses a significant collection of company records, engineering drawings, blueprints, glass plate negatives, photographs and correspondence from various American businesses representing the railroad industry in the South after the Civil War. The Archives also contain a growing collection of Civil War letters, diaries, and official records. Those collections include:

Civil War Archives Collections:

• Civil War Collection
• Parks and Nancy M. Davis Civil War Collection
• Parks and Nancy Davis Collection: 2010 Donation
• Cedric Gifford Civil War Collection
• David L. Michaels Collection: Commemorative Excursion with The General, Cincinnati to Covington, KY, 1963
• John C. Thompson Collection: Civil war Military Papers of John C. Smith, 1862 – 1865
• Michael Reed Collection
• Darrell Stokes Collection: Civil War Letter
• Caryl Kelley Collection: Civil War Era Letters
• Peggy Guthries Collection
• James Sheppard Collection
• John A. O’Neal Collection: “Confederate Veteran” Magazines
  • 1900 — 1906
  • 1907 — 1908
  • 1909 — 1910
  • 1911 — 1912
  • 1913 — 1924

Civil War Library Holdings:

• Ellison Collection
• Kennesaw Museum Foundation Collection: George Wray Civil War Library Collection
• Nina C. Frey Collection: “Campfire and Battlefields”

Railroad Archives Collections:

• Glover Machine Works: Bo Glover Collections
  • Business Records Collection
  • Catalog/Supplements Collection
  • Glass Plate Negative Collection
• Glover Machine Works: Ersie & Polly Hamby Collection
  • Ersie & Polly Hamby Collection
• David W. Salter Collection: Timetables, 1898 - 1970
  • Atlantic Coast Line, 1909 – 1965
  • Amtrak, Atlanta, Birmingham and Atlantic Railroad (“Bee Line”), Atlanta Birmingham & Atlantic Railroad, Alabama, Tennessee & Northern Railroad Co., Atlanta & Saint Andrews Bay (“The Bay Line”) and Atlanta & West Point Railroad Co., 1910 - 1988
  • Central of Georgia, Florida East Coast Railway, Frisco Lines, L&N, NC&St.L., Norfolk & Western, Richmond Fredericksburg and Potomac Railroad Co., Savannah Line, and Texas & Pacific Railway, 1910 – 1965
  • Seaboard Air Line Railway, 1898 – 1970
  • Southern Railway, 1900 – 1970
• Southern Railway Historical Association Collections
  
  Presidents’ Files:
  
  
• Samuel Spencer, 1894 - 1906
  • 1871 – 1896
  • 1896– 1897
  • 1898
  • 1899
  • 1900
  • 1901
  • 1902
  • 1903
  • 1904
  • 1905
  • 1906
• W. W. Finley, 1906 - 1913
  • 1906 – 1907
  • 1906 – 1908
  • 1906 – 1909
  • 1906 – 1910
  • 1906 – 1911
  • 1906 – 1912
  • 1906 – 1913
• Fairfax Harrison, 1913 - 1937
  • 1914
  • 1915
  • 1916
  • 1917
  • 1918
  • 1919
  • 1920
  • 1921
  • 1922
  • 1923
  • 1924
  • 1925
  • 1926
  • 1927
  • 1928
  • 1929
  • 1930
  • 1931
  • 1932
  • 1933
  • 1934
  • 1935
  • 1936
  • 1937
• Earnest E. Norris, 1938 – 1951
  • 1938
  • 1939
  • 1940
  • 1941
  • 1942
  • 1943
  • 1944
  • 1945
  • 1946
  • 1947
  • 1948
  • 1949
  • 1950
  • 1951
• Harry A. DeButts, 1951 - 1962
  • 1952
  • 1953
  • 1954
  • 1955
  • 1956
  • 1957
  • 1958
  • 1959
  • 1960
  • 1961
• D. William Brosnan, 1962 - 1967
  • 1962
  • 1963
  • 1964
  • 1965
  • 1966
  • 1967
    
• W. Graham Claytor, Jr., 1967 - 1977
  • Personal Files, 1963 - 1967
  • 1967 - 1969
  • 1968
  • 1970
  • 1971
  • 1972
  • 1973
  • 1974
  • 1975
  • 1976
• L. Stanley Crane, 1978 - 1980
  • 1977
  • 1978
  • 1979
  • 1980
    
    
    
• Harold H. Hall, 1980 - 1982
  • 1980 - 1982
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
• Accident Reports
  • Accidents, 1950 — 1951
• Annual Reports:
  • I.C.C.
  • Stockholders, 1899 – 1989
  • Southern Railway Company Subsidiaries Annual Reports to Stockholders, 1939 - 1966
  • Miscellaneous Annual Reports to Stockholders, 1910 - 2004
• AFE: Authorities for Expenditures & Retirements
  • AFE: Authorities for Expenditures & Retirements
• Central of Georgia Railroad:
  • Advertising, 1955 — 1970
  • Agreements & Contracts, 1945 — 1971
  • Authorities for Expenditures and Retirements, 1947 — 1965
  • Branch Lines, 1943 — 1981
  • Car Supply, 1949 — 1970
  • Claims and Company Property, 1956 — 1974
  • Construction, 1956 — 1974
  • Empire Land Company, 1953 — 1968
  • Equipment
  • Freight Agency, 1956 — 1969
  • Fruit Growers Express Company Files, 1936 — 1966
  • Industrial Development 1943 — 1975
  • Inspection Trip, 1963
  • Legal Papers, 1948 — 1978
  • Meetings & Dinners, 1944 — 1976
  • Motor Transport, 1961 — 1964
  • Ocean Steamship Company Financials & Operations, 1943 — 1974
  • Operations, 1944 — 1980
  • Organization Memberships, 1953 — 1974
  • Savannah & Atlanta Railway, 1950 — 1976
  • Security & Special Services, 1968 — 1974
  • Signal Department Standards Engineering Drawings, 1914 — 1955
  • Statistics, 1950 — 1974
  • Terminal Company Service, 1935 — 1977
  • Trailer Train Company, 1961 — 1982
  • Train Service, 1948 — 1971
  • Various Department Files: Accounting, Claim, Communication, Executive, Law, Magazine, Mechanical, Miscellaneous, Operating, Personnel, and Traffic Departments, 1954 — 1970
• Depots
  • Southern Railway Depots
• Engineering Drawings:
  • Freight and Passenger Car Engineering Drawings
• Historic Structure Drawings:
  • Historic Structure Drawings, Related Correspondence, and Other Historic Preservation Initiatives
  • Historic Structure Photographs
• General Information:
  • K.&I.T. (Kentucky and Indiana) Railroad Company Newsletters, 1966 – 1964
  • Southern Railway Track & Division Signal Profiles
• Miscellaneous
  • Bolick Collection
  • Manuals, Maps, Rule Books, Etc.
  • Miscellaneous Records
• Photographs:
  • Alabama
  • Florida
  • Georgia
  • Kentucky
  • Louisianna
  • Miscellaneous States (Illinois, Indiana, Missouri, New York, and Ohio)
  • Mississippi
  • North Carolina
  • South Carolina
  • Tennessee
  • Virginia
  • Washington DC
  • Diesel Locomotives
  • Employees/Workers/Famous People/Executives
  • Events
  • The Richard Prince Collection of Locomotive Photos
  • The Richard Prince Collection of Miscellaneous Photos
  • The Richard Prince Collection of Ship Photos
  • Passenger Car & Equipment
  • Steam Locomotives
• Postcards
  • Stations, Facilities, Wrecks and Locomotive Engines (Diesel & Steam)
• Proposed Yard at Columbus, Ohio
  • Proposed Yard at Columbus, Ohio
• Southern Railway System AS INFORMATION:
  • Newsletters, 1947 — 1989
• Tallulah Falls Railway:
  • President's Files, 1895 - 1942
• Time Tables
  • Collection of Employee Timetables, 1932 - 1995
  • Collection of Passenger Timetables, 1891 - 1997
• Valuation Section Reports to the Interstate Commerce Commission:
  • Alabama
  • Georgia
  • Illinois
  • Indiana
  • Kentucky
  • Louisiana
  • Mississippi
  • Missouri
  • North Carolina
  • Ohio
  • South Carolina
  • Tennessee
  • Unidentified
  • Virginia
  • Washington D.C.
• Individual Collections:
  • Central of Georgia Photographs
    • Lynn Murant Collection
  • Erie & Kalamazoo Railroad Bank Note: Al Sims Collection
  • Fruit Growers Express/Western Fruit Express/Burlington Refrigerator Express/Richmond, Fredericksburg and Potomac Railroad/Florida East Coast Railway/Rio Grande-Colorado-Utah Business Belt/Missouri Pacific System/Narrow Gauge Silverton Train/Union Pacific System/Alco Valve Company:
    • Sallie Loy Collection
  • James Sheppard Collection: 1906 Southern Railway Postcard
  • Louisville & Nashville Railroad (L&N):
    • Walter C. Beamer Collection
    • Mrs. G.J. Black Collection
    • Joe Bozeman Collection includes NC&StL materials
    • Joe Bozeman Collection: Mitch Greeson, L&N Conductor
    • Virginia Duncan Collection includes Seaboard Air Lines materials
  • Nashville, Chattanooga & St. Louis Railway (NC&StL):
    • Kathy O’Hare Collection includes W&A and L&N materials
    • Virgil Prather Collection
    • James Pyron Collection
    • Charlie Bell Collection
  • Railway Express Agency & Various Railroads:
    • William J. Patterson Collection
  • Seaboard Air Line — Seaboard Coast Line Railroad (SAL & SCL)
    • Seaboard Air Line - Seaboard Coast Line Railroad (SAL & SCL)
  • Southern Railway:
    • Arnold Eaves Collection
    • G. Edgar Conley & Elizabeth C. Schwartz Collection: Southern Railway Mail Car
    • George N. Guill Collection
    • Joyel Franklin Dean Collection
    • Roy M. Harcourt Collection
    • Kennesaw Museum Foundation Collections includes W&A Railroad materials
    • Private Donor Collection: Southern Railway System and Tallulah Falls Railway Business Records
    • Private Donor Collection: Southern Railway System
    • Tom Tillison Collection includes The General materials
    • J.H. Wilson Collection
    • Melvin B. Coalson Collection
  • Various Railroads:
    • Vintage Postcards: Donna Sassone Collection
    • Ticket Stubs: Esther Romweber Collection
    • Malinda Jolley Mortin Collection
    • Time Tables: Wallace Haywood Collection
    • Maps, Rule Books, Photographs, etc.: Wallace Haywood
  • Western & Atlantic Railroad (W&A):
    • Mike Bearrow Collection

Cotton Industry Related Collection:

• Glover Machine Works Collection: Wood Gummer and Filer Company Business Records Collection

Lateral Files:

• Merci Boxcar Archives
• Merci Car Article by Ava Wilkey
• Archives Lateral File

Railroad Library Holdings:

• Ellison Collection
• Poor’s Manual of Railroads Railroad Related Library Collection
• Official Railway Guides: Freight Service
• Official Railway Guides: Passenger Service
• Railway & Locomotive Historical Society Magazine
• Wallace Haywood Collection

The following websites may offer additional resources for your research.

• Center for Railroad Photography & Art
• Georgia Historical Society
• Georgia Archives
• Atlanta History Center
• Southern Railway Historical Association
• The National Archives
• The Railroad Retirement Board
• Bartow History Center
• The Center For Civil War Photography
• The James N. Gillum Archives of Norfolk & Western Historical Society
• South Carolina RR Structures
• Georgia Railroad Structures

Warning: Except where marked otherwise, all text and images on this website are the property of the Southern Museum of Civil War and Locomotive History Archives. For permission to reproduce any of the text or images, please contact Sallie Loy, Archivist for the Southern Museum of Civil War and Locomotive History, by e-mail at sloy@kennesaw-ga.gov or Daniel Pete, Assistant Archivist, dpete@kennesaw-ga.gov at 770.427.2117 x3184; by phone at 770.427.2117 x 3060; by mail at Southern Museum of Civil War and Locomotive History Archives, 2829 Cherokee Street, Kennesaw, Georgia 30144.