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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
• 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

Civil War Library Holdings:

• Donald L. Myers Memorial Library Collection
• Dr. & Mrs. James W. Eaton Collection
• Ellison Collection
• Gary R. Yee Collection
• Henry Higgins Collection
• John F. Berky Collection
• Kennesaw Museum Foundation Collection: George Wray Civil War Library Collection
• Liesendahl Collection
• Nina C. Frey Collection: “Campfire and Battlefields”
• Richard Washburn Collection
• Ron Dahlquist Collection
• William Smedlund Collection
• Harry Carpenter Collection
• Daniel Pete Collection

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
• Southern Railway Historical Association Collections
  
  Presidents’ Files:
  
  
• Samuel Spencer, 1894 - 1906
  • 1871 – 1895
  • 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
• Fruit Growers Express:
  • Presidents' Files
• Tallulah Falls Railway:
  • Business Records
• 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
• Engineering Drawings:
  • Freight and Passenger Car Engineering Drawings
• Historic Structure Drawings:
  • Historic Structure Drawings, Related Correspondence, and Other Historic Preservation Initiatives
  • Historic Structure Photographs
• Miscellaneous Information:
  • K.&I.T. (Kentucky and Indiana) Railroad Company Newsletters, 1966 – 1964
  • Southern Railway Track & Division Signal Profiles
• Photographs:
  • Alabama
  • Florida
  • Georgia
  • Kentucky
  • Louisianna
  • Mississippi
  • North Carolina
  • South Carolina
  • Tennessee
  • Virginia
  • Washington DC
  • Employees/Workers/Famous People/Executives
  • Events
• Valuation Section Reports to the Interstate Commerce Commission:
  • Alabama
  • Georgia
  • Illinois
  • Indiana
  • Kentucky
  • Louisiana
  • Mississippi
  • Missouri
• 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
  • 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
  • Southern Railway:
    • Arnold Eaves Collection
    • George N. Guill Collection
    • Joyel Franklin Dean Collection
    • Roy M. Harcourt Collection
    • Kennesaw Museum Foundation Collections includes W&A Railroad materials
    • Private Donor includes Tallulah Falls Railroad materials
    • Tom Tillison Collection includes The General materials
    • J.H. Wilson Collection
  • Various Railroads:
    • Vintage Postcards: Donna Sassone Collection
    • Ticket Stubs: Esther Romweber Collection
  • 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

Railroad Library Holdings:

• Edward T. Stanfill Collection
• Ellison Collection
• Green Frog Productions Video Library Collection
• Hugh Kinard Train Related Magazines Collection
• Wallace Haywood Train Related Magazines Collection
• R.L. Kimball, Jr. Collection
• Leonard Robins Railroad Library Collection
• Poor’s Manual of Railroads Railroad Related Library Collection
• Harry Carpenter Collection
• Official Railway Guides: Freight Service
• Official Railway Guides: Passenger Service
• Railway & Locomotive Historical Society Magazine

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
• Troup County Archives
• Bartow History Center

Warning: Except where marked otherwise, all text and images on this webpage 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.us; 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.