Newberry Library - Tickets - Ticket holders, Burlington & Quincy Railroad Company pamphlets & printed ephemera, ca. 1880s-1940s

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Title Tickets - Ticket holders, Burlington & Quincy Railroad Company pamphlets & printed ephemera, ca. 1880s-1940s

Creator Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad Company

Date ca. 1880s-1940s

Place West United States

Language English

Subjects Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad Company, Emigration and immigration, Railroad land grants, Railroads, Strikes and lockouts

Description Use the link to the finding aid for a fuller description of collection contents that explains the use of the name and subject terms appearing in this catalog record.

Summary Correspondence, reports, maps, blueprints, financial documents, advertising materials, photographs, and other items documenting the history of the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad Company (CB&Q). The CB&Q's growth and expansion, both organizationally as a corporation, and geographically as it built westward, is well represented. The collection contains significant material related to CB&Q's participation in the federal land grant program, the other railroads it absorbed, the company's disputes and negotiations with organized labor, and other aspects of railroad management. Photographs include travel and tourist destinations along Burlington routes in the West and Midwest, as well images of employees, property, and equipment.

Biographical/Historical Note Commonly known as the Burlington, the CB&Q was formed in 1855 from a small local predecessor line, the Aurora Branch Railroad, located in northeastern Illinois. Directed by Boston financier John Murray Forbes and managed by Charles Elliott Perkins, the company expanded rapidly in the post-Civil War era westward across Iowa, Nebraska, and Colorado to Denver. It also acquired the Hannibal and St. Joseph Line through Missouri, built a new line from Chicago to St. Paul, and purchased or constructed hundreds of branch lines along its main routes. By 1901, when Minnesota railroad baron James J. Hill acquired its stock, the railroad employed over 35,000 people and encompassed 7,500 miles of track, forming a web of connections through Illinois, Iowa, Nebraska, Colorado, Missouri, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Kansas, Wyoming, Montana, and the Dakotas. It continued to operate independently well into the twentieth century and to expand operations, acquiring southerly extensions from Chicago into Kentucky, and a north-south through route from Wyoming to the Gulf of Mexico. At its height in 1925, the CB&Q exceeded 12,000 route miles in fourteen states. In 1970, CB&Q merged with the Great Northern Railway, Northern Pacific Railway, and Spokane, Portland and Seattle Railway to form the Burlington Northern Railroad.

Extent 2,341.6 linear feet

Format Archives, Manuscripts, Maps, Photographs

Archival Collection Title Midwest Manuscript Collection

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Call Number CB&Q Series 32.9 Box 125 Folder 1074

BibID 998877668805867

Rights Status Copyright Not Evaluated

Contributing Institution Newberry Library

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IIIF Resource Type Canvas

Size 1327px × 2222px 8.46 MB

File Created 08/02/2024

Filename 998877668805867_CBQ_32.9_box_125_1074_010-0.tif

Unique Identifier NL12GR8K

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