The Archives at the Southern Museum of Civil War & Locomotive History house 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.

Civil War Archives Collections:

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Civil War Library Holdings:

Non-circulating library research only

• Ellison Collection
• Kennesaw Museum Foundation Collection: George Wray Civil War Library Collection
• Nina C. Frey Collection: “Campfire and Battlefields”
• Dick Hillman Collection
• Lewis P. Bramlett Collection
• Raymond G. Jacobsmeyer Collection

Railroad Archives Collections:

• William Peter Silcox Collection

Glover Machine Works Collection:

• Glover Machine Works: Bo Glover Collections
  • Business Records Collection
  • Catalog/Supplements Collection
  • Glass Plate Negative Collection
• Personal Correspondence
  • Personal Correspondence
• Glover Machine Works: Ersie & Polly Hamby Collection
• Ersie & Polly Hamby Collection

David W. Salter Collection:

• Click here for the David W. Salter collection

Southern Railway Historical Association Collections:

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Individual Collections:

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Cotton Industry Related Collections:

• Glover Machine Works Collection: Wood Gummer and Filer Company Business Records Collection
• Roger Gee Collection: “Georgia Ginners’ Brown Book, 1954, First Edition”

Lateral Files:

• Earl Bennett Collection: Merci Train
• 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

Archives/Library Use Fee:

Research at the Southern Museum Archives & Library is free to members of the Museum Foundation but there is an archives fee of $10.00 per day for non-members.  The fee is for the research, not for the result; you must pay the fee whether or not we find exactly what you want.