Collection
Guide
Administrative Information
Access and
Restrictions: This collection is open for research.
Digital Surrogates: Except where indicated, this document describes but
does not reproduce the actual text, images and objects which make up this
collection. Materials are available only in the Special Collections
Department.
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Please read our Use of
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Scope and
Contents
This
collection contains employee timetables, images of locomotives, instructional
materials for the use and maintenance of locomotives, periodicals devoted
to railroads, public timetables, union information, and some miscellaneous
materials. The collection dates from the 1880s to the early 1990s.
Processed
by Sheri Kleinwort, 2005 addendum by Mohammad Shawaqfeh
Photographs: Series II
Audio
Material: Series IX
Related Materials
Subject guide for railroadiana
at the University of Iowa
http://www.lib.uiowa.edu/sc/resources/railroadiana
Acquisition and Processing
Information
This collection was donated to the University of Iowa
Libraries by D. M. Christisen between 2002 and 2005. The collection was
donated in memory of Locomotive Engineers H. L. Christisen and Glenn Linn, employees
of the Milwaukee Road.
Guide posted
to Internet: February 2003
Addenda:
2005
Box Contents List
Series
I -- Employee Timetables
Series
II -- Images
Series
III -- Instructional
Materials
Series IV -- Miscellaneous
Series V -- Periodicals
Series VI -- Timetables
Series VII -- Unions
Series VIII -- Brochures and Leaflets
Series IX -- Audio Materials
Series X -- Booklets
Series XI --Maps
Series XII -- Interstate Commerce Commission (ICC) Investigations
of Accidents
Series XIII -- Christisen and Linn Memorabilia
