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| Box |
Folder |
Description |
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Subseries
1: Agreements (arranged alpha-numerically), ca. 1880-1930
|
| 268 |
|
A8-A75 |
| 269 |
|
A76-A121 |
| 270 |
|
A122-A156 |
| 271 |
|
B1-B53 |
| 272 |
|
B54-B124 |
| 273 |
|
B125-B158 |
| 274 |
|
B159-B187 |
| 275 |
|
B188-B230 |
| 276 |
|
B231-B255 |
| 277 |
|
C1-C35 |
| 278 |
|
C36-C87 |
| 279 |
|
C88-C145 |
| 280 |
|
C146-C192 |
| 281 |
|
C194-C223 |
| 282 |
|
C224-C263 |
| 283 |
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C264-C290 |
| 284 |
|
D1-D79 |
| 285 |
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D80-D127 |
| 286 |
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D128-D160 |
| 287 |
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E1-E60 |
| 288 |
|
E61-E99 |
| 289 |
|
E100-E133 |
| 290 |
|
E134-E158 |
| 291 |
|
F1-F60 |
| 292 |
|
F61-F100 |
| 293 |
|
F101-F139 |
| 294 |
|
G1-G120 |
| 295 |
|
G121-G141 |
| 296 |
|
G142-G173 |
| 297 |
|
H1-H51 |
| 298 |
|
H52-H101 |
| 299 |
|
H102-H169 |
| 300 |
|
H170-H223 |
| 301 |
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H224-H232
H12-H112 (trifolded) |
| 302 |
|
I1-I50 |
| 303 |
|
I51-I100 |
| 304 |
|
I101-I150 |
| 305 |
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J1-J49 |
| 306 |
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J50-J113 |
| 307 |
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J118-J141 |
| 308 |
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K1-K50 |
| 309 |
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K51-K100 |
| 310 |
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K101-K145 |
| 311 |
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K146-K194 |
| 312 |
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L1-L45 |
| 313 |
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L46-L90 |
| 314 |
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L91-L132 |
| 315 |
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M1-M77 |
| 316 |
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M78-M120 |
| 317 |
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M121-M155 |
| 318 |
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M156-M198 |
| 319 |
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N1-N32 |
| 320 |
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N33-N80A |
| 321 |
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N81-N121 |
| 322 |
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N122-N156 |
| 323 |
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N1-N81 (trifolded) |
| 324 |
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N84-N145 |
| 325 |
|
O1-O56 |
| 326 |
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O59-O79 |
| 327 |
|
O1-O58 (trifolded) |
| 328 |
|
O59-O100 |
| 329 |
|
P1-P113 (trifolded) |
| 330 |
|
Q1-Q86 (trifolded) |
| 331 |
|
R1-R104 (trifolded) |
| 332 |
|
S1-S106 (trifolded) |
| 333 |
|
S107-S214 (trifolded) |
| 334 |
|
T1-T119 (trifolded) |
| 335 |
|
T120-T174 (trifolded)
U1-U49 (trifolded |
| 336 |
|
U50-U153 (trifolded) |
| 337 |
|
U159-U242 (trifolded) |
| 338 |
|
U243-U340 (trifolded) |
| 339 |
|
V2-V4 |
| 340 |
|
W57-W58; W161-W198 |
| 341 |
|
X1-X50 |
| 342 |
|
X51-X75 |
| 343 |
|
X76-X130 |
| 344 |
|
X134-X180 |
| 345 |
|
X181-X214 |
| 346 |
|
X215-X244 |
| 347 |
|
Y1-Y27A |
| 348 |
|
Y28-Y86 |
| 349 |
|
Y87-Y155 |
| 350 |
|
Y122-Y145; Z50 |
| 351-357 |
|
Agreements--Miscellaneous
(alpha-numerically arranged) |
| |
|
Subseries
2: Agreements (alphabetical arrangement), ca. 1880-1930 |
| 358 |
|
American Investment
Company |
| |
|
American Protection
Company |
| |
|
Babcock and Rushton
Company |
| |
|
Ballard and Ballard
Company |
| |
|
Baltimore and Ohio
Railroad Company |
| |
|
Belle Plain Telephone
Company |
| |
|
H.B. Beer |
| |
|
Bennett and Company |
| |
|
British Columbia Telephone
Company |
| |
|
Buffalo, Rochester,
and Pittsburgh Railway Company |
| |
|
Byrne and McDonnell |
| |
|
Canadian National
Telegraph Company |
| |
|
Carneige Steel Company |
| |
|
Carolina Telephone
and Telegraph Company |
| |
|
Chattanooga, TN |
| |
|
Commercial Telegraph
and Cable Company |
| |
|
Cumberland Telephone
and Telegraph Company |
| |
|
Cutting Washington
Radio Company |
| |
|
Hammond Elevator Company |
| |
|
Harriman and Company |
| |
|
Harris Winthrop and
Company |
| |
|
Hayden Stone and Company |
| |
|
Hayward and Clark |
| |
|
Holmes Electric Protective
Company |
| |
|
Hodenpyl Hardy and
Company |
| |
|
Home Telephone Company |
| |
|
H.L. Horton and Company |
| |
|
C.I. Hudson and Company |
| |
|
Housmann and Company |
| |
|
Hubbard Brothers |
| |
|
Hulbard Warren and
Chandler |
| |
|
E.F. Hutton |
| |
|
Lake Shore and Southern
Railway |
| |
|
Leigh Valley Railroad |
| |
|
Liberty Telephone
Company |
| |
|
Lincoln Telephone
and Telegraph Company |
| |
|
Lipper and Company |
| |
|
Livington and Company |
| |
|
F.G. Loagn |
| |
|
Long Island Railroad
Company |
| |
|
Louisiana Company |
| |
|
Louisville Cotton
Oil Company |
| |
|
Louisville Henderson
and St. Louis Railway Company |
| |
|
Thomas McKinnon |
| |
|
A.H. Mason |
| |
|
Mengel and Brothers
Company |
| |
|
Michigan Central Railroad
Company |
| |
|
Miller and Company |
| |
|
Missouri and Kansas
Telephone Company |
| |
|
Missouri and Kansas
Texas Railway Company |
| |
|
Missouri and N. Arkansas
Railroad Company |
| |
|
Moorage Hardy Grain
Company |
| |
|
Nashville, TN |
| |
|
Oxford Telephone Company |
| |
|
Oregon-Washington
Railroad and Navigation Company |
| |
|
Red River Texas and
Southern Railway |
| |
|
Republican National
Committee |
| |
|
St. Louis, San Francisco
and Texas Railway Company |
| |
|
St. Louis and San
Francisco Railroad Company |
| |
|
St. Louis, Southwestern
Railway Company |
| |
|
San Antonio, Uvalde
and Gulf Railway Company |
| |
|
Sacramento Valley
Telephone Company |
| |
|
Savanna Mutual Telephone
Company |
| |
|
Savannah Union Station
Company |
| |
|
Seaboard Air Line
Railway |
| |
|
Sears Roebuck and
Company |
| |
|
Shearson, Hamill and
Company |
| |
|
Signal Corp, US Army |
| |
|
Slaughter and Company |
| |
|
Southern Cotton Oil |
| |
|
Southern Railway Company |
| |
|
Sparks and Company |
| |
|
Spencer Trask and
Company |
| |
|
Standard Oil Company |
| |
|
Stein Alstrin Company |
| |
|
Sternberger Sinn and
Company |
| |
|
Stock Quotation Telegraph
Company |
| |
|
Tide Water Pipe Company |
| |
|
Trinity and Brazos
Valley Railroad Company |
| |
|
Tuscarora Oil Company |
| |
|
Two Rivers Telephone
Company |
| |
|
US Government |
| |
|
Vienna Cotton Oil
Company |
| |
|
Wrenn and Company |
| 359 |
|
American District
Telegraph Company |
| |
|
Alabama Great Southern
Railroad |
| |
|
Aluminum Company of
America |
| |
|
American Rolling Mill
Company |
| |
|
American Sheet and
Tin Plate Company |
| |
|
American Steel and
Wire Company |
| |
|
Armour and Company |
| |
|
Auerbach, Pollack
and Richardson |
| |
|
Baltimore and Ohio
Railroad |
| |
|
Bartlett Frazier Company |
| |
|
Basic Products |
| |
|
Carnegie Brothers
Company |
| |
|
Carnegie Steel Company |
| |
|
Carolina Telephone
and Telegraph Company |
| |
|
Central News of America |
| |
|
Central Railroad Company
of New Jersey |
| |
|
Central Traffic Association |
| |
|
Central Union Telephone
Company |
| |
|
S.B. Chapin and Company |
| |
|
Chesapeake and Ohio
Railway Company |
| |
|
Illinois Central Railroad |
| |
|
Illinois Steel Company |
| |
|
Imperial Telephone
Company |
| |
|
Indiana Pipe Line |
| |
|
International News
Service |
| |
|
McFadden and Brothers |
| |
|
McPhetters |
| |
|
Masten and Company |
| |
|
Mesaba Telephone Company |
| |
|
Missouri Oklahoma
and Gulf Railway Company |
| |
|
Missouri Pacific Railway
Company |
| |
|
Moore and Schely |
| |
|
Mountain States Telephone
and Telegraph Company |
| |
|
Mountain Telegraph
Company |
| |
|
National News Association |
| |
|
Northwestern Telephone
Exchange Company |
| |
|
Southwestern Telegraph
and Telephone Company |
| |
|
St. Joseph and Iowa
Railroad Company |
| |
|
St. Louis and San
Francisco Railroad Company |
| |
|
Stock Quotation Telegraph
Company |
| |
|
Sun Press Association |
| |
|
Swift and Company |
| |
|
Thomason and McKinnon |
| |
|
US Government |
| |
|
Contracts and Agreements of the
Western Union Telegraph Co., 1866 |
| |
|
Subseries
3: Facility Licenses, 1914-1916 |
| 360 |
|
Subseries
4: Pole Licenses, 1913-1916 |
| |
|
American District
Telegraph Company |
| |
|
American Protection
Company |
| |
|
American District,
Protection and Transportation Company |
| |
|
Cumberland Telephone
and Telegraph Company |
| |
|
Illinois District
Telegraph Company |
| |
|
Los Angeles District
Telegraph Company |
| |
|
Louisville, Nashville
Railroad Company |
| |
|
Michigan State Telephone
Company |
| |
|
Missouri District
Telegraph Company |
| |
|
Missouri and Kansas
Telegraph Company |
| |
|
Missouri, Oklahoma
and Gulf Railway Company |
| |
|
Mountain States Telephone
and Telegraph Company |
| |
|
National District
Telegraph Company |
| |
|
Ohio and Messenger
Telegraph Company |
| |
|
Southwestern Telegraph
and Telephone Company |
| |
|
Tennessee District
Telegraph Company |
| |
|
Texas Company |
| |
|
Texas and Pacific
Railway |
| |
|
Toledo Telegraph and
Telephone Messenger Company |
| |
|
Utah District Telegraph
Company |
| 361 |
|
Joint Pole Manual,
1923 |
| |
|
Subseries
5: Property Leases, 1872-1963 |
| 362 |
|
Correspondence and
rulings on New York City property, ca. 1920s-1960s |
| 363 |
|
Correspondence, plans,
and rulings on New York City property, ca. 1920s-1960s |
| 364 |
|
Real Estate materials,
vol. 1. 26 January 1872-January 1907 |
| 365 |
1 |
Federal Valuation
of the Land Lines, 1913-1932, Vol. 1, Brief History |
| |
2 |
Federal Valuation
of the Land Lines, 1913-1932, Vol.2, Appendices A-F |
| 366 |
1 |
Federal Valuation
of the Land Lines, 1913-1932, Vol. 3, Appendices G-H |
| |
2 |
Federal Valuation
of the Land Lines, 1913-1932, Vol. 4, Appendices, I-N |
| 367 |
1 |
Federal Valuation
of the Land Lines, 1913-1932, Vol. 5, Appendices O-R |
| |
2 |
Federal Valuation
of the Land Lines, 1913-1932, Vol. 6, |
| 368 |
|
Federal Valuation
of the Land Lines, 1913-1932, Vol. 7, Appendices U-W |
| 375G |
1 |
Guardian Assurance
Company, Limited, 1955
Starker Brothers Limited, 1959
Representative Body of the Church of Wales, 1962 |
| |
2 |
United Kingdom Temperance
and General Provident Institution, 1962
National Union of Manufacturers, 1955
Minister of Aviation, 1962
Dunsmark Investments Limited, 1962 |
| |
3 |
Mounted Royal Limited,
1960
London Tecla Gem Company, 1959
Francis John Yates, 1957
Baltic Mercantile and Shipping, 1958
Mayor and Commonality and Citizens of London, 1961 |
| |
4 |
Scottish Mutual Assurance
Society, 1960
Reginald Arthur William Bond, 1954
Lawrence's Leeds Limited, 1963
Cardiff Exchange and Office Company, 1961
Premises of #33 Charlotte Square Edinburgh, 1960
Abbey National Building Society, 1961 |
| |
5 |
Yorkshire Insurance
Company, Limited, 1960
Frances Cynthia Rosalyns Lawson, 1961
Newcastle-on-Tyne Premises, 1951
Alverton Manor Premises, 1953
British Transport Commission, 1959
Southhampton Dock Premises, 1958
British Transport Commission, 1957
Sir Maurice Fitzgerald, Valentia, Ireland, 1914 |
| |
6 |
Minister of Transport
and Power, 1959
Stock Exchange Committee (Netherlands), 1960
Priests of St. Sulpice of Montreal, 1962
Adolfo Perez Lllana Architects, 1955
Gardiner Austin and Company Limited, 1963
Europe and Access Telegraph Company, 1924 |
| |
7 |
Western Union/Western
Union International leases and indentures, 1960-1963 (land
certificates, leases, licenses, indentures, assignments. |
| |
|
Subseries 5A: Dey Street
Property Materials (indentures, leases), 1770-1896 |
| 816 |
1 |
1877 |
| |
2 |
1879; 1881 |
| |
3 |
March 1872-April 1872 |
| |
4 |
May 1872 |
| |
5 |
July 1872; October 1872 |
| |
6 |
1896 |
| |
7 |
Miscellaneous |
| |
|
Subseries
6: Real Estate Materials, 1867-1960 |
| 375H |
1 |
Bay Roberts, Newfoundland
(George Crane), 1913
Canso, Nova Scotia ) Canso Amateur Athletic Association),
1907-1956
Canso, Nova Scotia, 1884-1960 |
| |
2 |
District of Placentia
and St. Mary's, Newfoundland, 1913
Berick, County of Sussex, England, 1947
Halifax, Nova Scotia (Charles Brister), 1913
Town of Harbor Grace, 1941
Havana, Cuba, 1930
Heart's Content, 1917 |
| |
3 |
Horta, Azores, 1924-1926 |
| |
4 |
Nova Scotia Steel
and Coal Company, 1915
North Sydney, Nova Scotia (Richard Hickey), 1913
T.W. Goulding in London, 1925 |
| |
5 |
St. Pierre-Miquelon,
1916
Penzance, England, 1879
Lands of Donilla, Ireland, 1930; 1953
Sydney, Nova Scotia (Sydney Mines), 1939; 1944
Punta Rassa, Florida (easement), 1941
Big Barren Pond, Newfoundland, and Pugwash, Nova Scotia, 1867 |
| |
|
Subseries
7: Telephone Contracts, 1851-1921, n.d. |
| 369 |
1 |
Instructions to Managers,
1851-1921 |
| |
2 |
American Telephone
and Telegraph Company |
| |
3 |
Bell Telephone Company
of Nevada |
| |
4 |
Chesapeake and Potomac
Telephone Company |
| |
5 |
Chesapeake and Potomac
Telephone Company of Baltimore City |
| |
6 |
Chesapeake and Potomac
Telephone Company of Virginia |
| 370 |
1 |
Chesapeake and Potomac
Telephone Company of West Virginia |
| |
2 |
Cincinnati and Suburban
Telephone Company |
| |
3 |
New England Telephone
and Telegraph |
| |
4 |
New Jersey Bell Telephone
Company |
| 371 |
1 |
Indiana Bell Telephone |
| |
2 |
Illinois Bell Telephone |
| |
3 |
Michigan Bell Telephone
Company |
| |
4 |
Mountain States Telephone |
| |
5 |
New England Telephone
and Telegraph |
| |
6 |
Northwest Bell Telephone |
| |
7 |
Ohio Bell Telephone
Company |
| 372 |
1 |
Diamond State Telephone
Company |
| |
2 |
New York Telephone
Company |
| |
3 |
Pacific and Northwest
Telephone Company |
| |
4 |
Pacific Telephone
and Telegraph Company |
| |
5 |
Southern Bell Telephone
and Telegraph Company |
| |
6 |
Southern California
Telephone Company |
| |
7 |
Southern New England
Telephone Company |
| |
8 |
Southwestern Bell
Telephone |
| |
9 |
Wisconsin Telephone
Company |
| |
|
Subseries
8: Correspondence about leased wires and rental fees, 1889-1917 |
| 373 |
1 |
1889 |
| |
2 |
1890 |
| |
3 |
1894 |
| |
4 |
1895 |
| |
5 |
1896 |
| |
6 |
1897 |
| |
7 |
Correspondence about
leased wires, 1898 |
| |
8 |
Correspondence about
leased wires, 1899 |
| |
9 |
Correspondence about
leased wires, 1900 |
| |
10 |
Correspondence about
leased wires, 1901 |
| |
11 |
Correspondence about
leased wires, 1902 |
| |
12 |
Correspondence about
leased wires, 1903 |
| |
13 |
Correspondence about
leased wires, 1904 |
| |
14 |
Correspondence about
leased wires, 1905 |
| 374 |
1 |
Correspondence about
leased wires, 1906 |
| |
2 |
Correspondence about
leased wires, 1907 |
| |
3 |
Correspondence about
leased wires, 1908 |
| |
4 |
Correspondence about
leased wires, 1909 |
| 375 |
1 |
Correspondence about
leased wires, 1910 |
| |
2 |
Correspondence about
leased wires, 1911 |
| |
3 |
Correspondence about
leased wires, 1912 |
| |
4 |
Correspondence about
leased wires, 1913 |
| |
5 |
Correspondence about
leased wires, 1914 |
| |
6 |
Correspondence about
leased wires, 1915; 1917 |
| |
7 |
Correspondence about
rental fees collected, 1910-1915 |
| |
|
Subseries
9: Cable Divestment Materials, 1874-1960s |
| 375A |
1 |
Cable Divestment Papers,
1911-1965
Leasehold interest schedules, Anglo American Telegraph Company
leases, real estate deeds, correspondence, Anglo-American
inventory, Western Union real estate deeds |
| |
2 |
Cable Divestment General
Correspondence, 1960
Correspondence, balance sheets for the Ocean Cable System |
| |
3 |
Records on proposed
sale of cables to Textron American Inc., 1955-1957 |
| |
4 |
Cable Divestment correspondence
with American Securities Corp., 1955-1961 |
| |
5 |
Cable Divestment correspondence
with American Securities Corp., 1956-1958 (copies of memorandum
of understanding between Western Union and ASC and supplements
and amendments) |
| 375B |
1 |
Proposed sale of cables
to Barnes Investing Corp., 1959-1960
(testimony of Walter E. Pudney, Edward A. Gallagher, copies
of agreement between Western Union and Barnes) |
| |
2 |
Cable Divestment standby
plan rejected by Federal Communications Commission, 1959-1960 |
| |
3 |
Anti-Divestment of
Cables, 1962
(correspondence re bill S. 3646 anti-divestment bill, reports,
senate hearing transcript, copies of bill S. 3646) |
| |
4 |
Cable Divestment Stockholder
Suit, 1960-1961
Milford Franklin a Western Union stockholder vs. Western Union,
records of the suit |
| |
5 |
Transfer of Canadian
and European Properties, 1963-1965 |
| |
6 |
Cable Divestment Requests
for tax ruling, 1961-1963
Copies of correspondence and supplement to request for ruling |
| 375C |
1 |
American Securities
Corp., Reimbursement of Expenses, 1957-1960 |
| |
2 |
Federal Communications
Commission correspondence re: Anglo American, 1962-1963
(draft of Western Union 1963 report to Federal Communications
Commission and correspondence with Federal Communications
Commission) |
| |
3 |
Cable Divestment-Federal
Communications Commission Correspondence, 1959-1964
Petitions, orders, reports |
| |
4 |
Cable Divestment General
Correspondence Western Union and American Securities Corp,
1961 |
| |
5 |
Cable Divestment General
Correspondence Western Union and American Securities Corp,
1962 |
| 375D |
1 |
Cable Divestment General
Correspondence, 1963 |
| |
2 |
Cable Divestment Correspondence
re acquisition of Anglo Stock, 1959-1960 |
| |
3 |
Stockholder approval
for divestment, 1959-1960 |
| |
4 |
Anglo-American/Western
Union memorandum correspondence, legal records, and ledger
statements, 1874-1962
agreement between Anglo American Telegraph Company, and Western
Union and other companies
Letter from Western Union to Anglo re status of companies,
1877
Letter from Anglo to Western Union, 1874
Anglo lease of land in Ireland
Anglo title deed for real estate in France
Indenture between Anglo and Western Union, 1874 |
| 375E |
1 |
Canadian License to
operate and maintain service, 1960 |
| |
2-3 |
License, agreements,
and leases between Western Union and other countries. |
| |
4 |
Cable Divestment,
objecting contracts and agreements. |
| 375F |
1 |
Cable Divestment--Anglo
American Telegraph Reports, 1948-1966 |
| |
2 |
Cable Divestment--Anglo
American Telegraph Reports, 1903-1968 |
| |
3 |
Cable Divestment--Anglo-American
Telegraph Lease, 1912 |
| |
4 |
Cable Divestment--Anglo-American
Telegraph Articles of Incorporation (adopted in 1951). |
| |
5 |
Cable Divestment--Anglo-American
Telegraph and Western Union indenture, 1911 |
| |
6 |
Cable Divestment--Anglo-American
Telegraph and Western Union indenture, 1912 |
| |
7 |
Cable Divestment--Anglo-American
Telegraph and Western Union indenture, 1922 and 1930 |
| 375I |
1 |
