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Chicago's rapid transit.

Book/Text

[Chicago, 1973]

1973

1 item

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FormatBook/TextCall numberJSK 73-275 Library has: Vol. 1. v. 1Item locationOffsite
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The New York elevated / Robert C. Reed.

Book/Text

South Brunswick [N.J.] : Barnes, c1978.

1978

2 items

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FormatBook/TextCall numberJSF 79-673Item locationOffsite
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FormatBook/TextCall numberIRH 94-4724Item locationSchwarzman Building - Milstein Division Room 121

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The rise and growth of elevated railroad law [microform], by Theodore F.C. Demarest.

Microform

New York, Baker, Voorhis & Company, 1894.

1894

1 item

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FormatTextCall number*ZT-1402Item locationOffsite

A history of the New York City subway system [microform] / by Joseph Cunningham and Leonard O. DeHart.

Microform

[New York?] : Cunningham, c1976-c1977.

1976-1977

1 item

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FormatTextCall number*ZV-250Item locationOffsite

Brooklyn elevated / James C. Greller & Edward B. Watson.

Book/Text

Hicksville, N.Y. : N.J. International, [198-]

1980-1989

1 item

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FormatBook/TextCall numberIRH 90-13048Item locationSchwarzman Building - Milstein Division Room 121

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Cyrus W. Field papers, 1831-1905, bulk (1880-1890)

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1831-1905

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The Elevated news.

Book/Text

Chicago.

unknown-present

1 item

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FormatBook/TextCall numberTLNA (Chicago Elevated Railways Collateral Trust. Elevated news) v. 2-8, no. 12 (1916-1923)Item locationOffsite

By the el : Third Avenue and its el at mid-century / by Lawrence Stelter ; photography by Lothar Stelter ; foreword, Joe Cunningham ; introduction, Joe Franklin and Stan Fischer ; supplemental photos, Robert Presbrey and Lawrence Stelter ; design & layout, John Henderson ; automotive resource, Ross Klein.

Book/Text

Flushing, NY : H&M Productions, c1995.

1995

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FormatBook/TextCall numberIRGV 96-1669Item locationSchwarzman Building - Milstein Division Room 121

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Second Avenue El in Manhattan / [text and technical data by Joe Cunningham].

Book/Text

Hicksvile, NY : N.J. International, 1995.

1995

1 item

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FormatBook/TextCall numberIRH 96-2192Item locationSchwarzman Building - Milstein Division Room 121

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The demise of the Fulton Ferry-York Street-Hudson Avenue Elevated / [Philip Copp]

Book/Text

[S.l. : s.n.], c1993.

1993

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FormatBook/TextCall numberIRM (Brooklyn) 96-16115Item locationSchwarzman Building - Milstein Division Room 121

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The Liverpool Overhead Railway.

Book/Text

London, Railway World, Ltd., 1962]

1962

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FormatBook/TextCall numberD-15 3982Item locationOffsite

Building the new rapid transit system of New York City / written by Fred Lavis. Design of the new elevated railway lines / by Maurice E. Griest.

Book/Text

Belleville, N.J. : Xplorer Press, 1996.

1996-1915

1 item

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FormatBook/TextCall numberIRH 97-4572Item locationSchwarzman Building - Milstein Division Room 121

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The elevated system and the growth of northern Chicago.

Book/Text

Evanston, Ill., Dept. of Geography, Northwestern University, 1965 [c1964]

1965-1964

1 item

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FormatBook/TextCall numberD-16 6096 no. 1-7Item locationSchwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315

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The first elevated railroads in Manhattan and the Bronx of the city of New York; the story of their development and progress, by William Fullerton Reeves ...

Book/Text

New York, The New-York Historical Society, 1936.

1936

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FormatBook/TextCall numberE-11 7379Item locationSchwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315

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Twelve New York city street and transit maps from 1860 to 1967 / commentary by John Landers.

Map

Flushing, N.Y. : H & M Productions, c1997.

1997

2 items

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FormatMapCall numberMap Div. 97-12607Item locationSchwarzman Building - Map Division Desk Room 117
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FormatMapCall number*R-Map Div. Desk G3804.N4 1997Item locationSchwarzman Building - Map Division Desk Room 117

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Report of the Special committee of the Assembly appointed to investigate the causes of the strike of the surface railroads in the city of Brooklyn, transmitted to the Legislature April, 1895.

Book/Text

Albany, New York : James B. Lyon, state printer, 1895.

1895

2 items

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FormatBook/TextCall numberTDG (New York State. Strike of the Surface Railroads in the City of Brooklyn, Committee on. Report of the special committee)Item locationOffsite
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FormatBook/TextCall number*SBK (New York State. Strike of the Surface Railroads in the City of Brooklyn, Committee on. Report of the special committee)Item locationSchwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315

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Die Hamburger Hochbahn Aktiengesellschaft in verkehrspolitischer und sozialpolitischer Beziehung / Ernst Kipnase.

Book/Text

Berlin : G. Stilke, 1925.

1925

1 item

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FormatBook/TextCall numberTPY (Kipnase, E. Hamburger Hochbahn Aktiengesellschaft in verkehrspolitischer und sozialpolitischer Beziehung)Item locationOffsite

Building the new rapid transit system of New York city, written by Fred Lavis ... Design of the new elevated railway lines, by Maurice E. Griest.

Book/Text

New York, 1915.

1915

1 item

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FormatBook/TextCall numberTPYM (Lavis, F. Building the new rapid transit system of New York City)Item locationOffsite

Report of the Rapid Transit Commission to the Massachusetts Legislature.

Book/Text

[Boston, Mass.? : Rapid Transit Commission, 1892]

1892

1 item

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FormatBook/TextCall numberTPY (Massachusetts. Rapid Transit Commission. Report) 1892Item locationOffsite

Report of J.A. Cowing, secretary and treasurer, to Cyrus W. Field, president, August 17, 1878.

Book/Text

[New York, 1878]

1878

1 item

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FormatBook/TextCall numberTPY (New York Elevated Railroad Company. Report) Aug. 17, 1878Item locationOffsite

In the matter of the petition of the New York Elevated Railroad Company. Papers on appeal. Edward C. Delavan ... attorney for respondents. James Emott ... Henry E. Davies ... [and] Aaron J. Vanderpoel ... of counsel. Jno. E. Parsons ... attorney for appellants. Geo. F. Comstock ... [and] William M. Evarts ... of counsel.

Book/Text

New York, W.J. Read, 1877.

1877

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FormatBook/TextCall numberTPY (New York (state). Courts: Court of Appeals. In the matter of the petition)Item locationSchwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315

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John H. Glover, respondent, against the Manhattan Railway Company and the New York Elevated Railroad Company, appellants. Appendix to case on appeal.

Book/Text

New York, M.B. Brown, 1884.

1884

1 item

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FormatBook/TextCall numberTPY (New York State. Courts: Court of Appeals. John H. Glover, respondent)Item locationOffsite

Report on passenger subway and elevated railroad development in Chicago : Prepared for the Committee on Traffic and Transportation of the City Club of Chicago / by Charles K. Mohler.

Book/Text

[Chicago] : City Club of Chicago, 1912.

1912

1 item

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FormatBook/TextCall numberTPY (City Club of Chicago. Report on passenger, subway and elevated railroad development in Chicago)Item locationOffsite

Report and testimony of the special committee of the Assembly to investigate the desirability of municipal ownership of the street and elevated railroads of the various cities of the state. Transmitted to the Legislature February 11, 1896.

Book/Text

Albany, New York, Wynkoop Hallenbeck Crawford co., state printers, 1896.

1896

2 items

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FormatBook/TextCall numberTPY (New York State. Municipal ownership of street and elevated railroads committee. Report and testimony) v. 2Item locationOffsite
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FormatBook/TextCall numberTPY (New York State. Municipal ownership of street and elevated railroads committee. Report and testimony) v. 1Item locationOffsite

Plan and unification agreement for the acquisition and unification, under public ownership and control, of rapid transit railroads and related power properties in the city of New York.

Book/Text

[New York, 1935]

1935

1 item

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FormatBook/TextCall numberTPY (New York (State). Transit Commission. Plan and unification agreement)Item locationOffsite

The Strauss Inverted Elevated Railway System.

Book/Text

Detroit, The Strauss Transit System, (Inc.) [cop. 1917]

1917

1 item

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FormatBook/TextCall numberTPYM (Strauss Transit System, Inc., Detroit, Mich. Strauss Inverted Elevated Railway System)Item locationOffsite

Shall the tracks of the elevated railroads in the city of New York cross on the same level?

Book/Text

[New York, 1879]

1879

1 item

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FormatBook/TextCall numberTPY (Shall the tracks of the elevated railroads)Item locationOffsite

Die selbsttätige Signalanlage der Berliner Hoch- und Untergrundbahn, nebst einigen Vorläufern, von Dr.-Ing. Gustav Kemmann ...

Book/Text

Berlin, J. Springer, 1921.

1921

1 item

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FormatBook/TextCall numberTPD+ (Kemmann, G. Selbsttätige Signalanlage der Berliner Hoch- und Untergrundbahn) 1921Item locationOffsite

Plan of an elevated railway submitted to a special committee : appointed by the Senate of the state of New-York / by Samuel W.H. Ward.

Book/Text

New-York : D. Murphy's Son, printer, 1867.

1867

2 items

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FormatBook/TextCall numberTPY (Ward, S. W. H. Plan of an elevated railway)Item locationOffsite
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FormatBook/TextCall numberMEM (Ward) 06-619Item locationSchwarzman Building - Print Collection Room 308

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Report on the Union Elevated Loop Railroad submitted to the Committee on Local Transportation of the Chicago City Council.

Book/Text

[Chicago], 1908.

1908

1 item

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FormatBook/TextCall numberTPY (Weston, G. Report on the Union Elevated Loop Railroad)Item locationOffsite

Aerial transit in the New York metropolitan area.

Book/Text

[S.l. : s.n.], 1955.

1955

1 item

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FormatBook/TextCall numberTPYM+ (Aerial transit in the New York metropolitan area)Item locationOffsite

Annual report. To the stockholders. Dated January 11, 1906.

Book/Text

[Jersey City, 1906]

1906

1 item

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FormatBook/TextCall numberTPY (Chicago Local Transportation Company. Reorganization plan and agreement of Chicago Local Transportation Company)Item locationOffsite

Projet comparé d'un chemin de fer aérien a établiv dans les grandes voies de Paris.

Book/Text

Paris, E. Capiomont & V. Renault, 1885.

1885

1 item

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FormatBook/TextCall numberTPY (Garnier, J. Projet comparé d'un chemin de fer aérien a établiv dans les grandes voies de Paris)Item locationOffsite

Statement of the Boston Elevated Railway Company. Made before the special commission appointed under the authority of chapter 158 of the Resolves of 1916, entitled resolve "Providing for a Special Commission to Consider the Financial Condition of the Boston Elevated Railway Company." Boston Elevated Railway Co., by Gaston, Snow & Saltonstall, general solicitors. September, 1916.

Book/Text

Boston, 1916.

1916

2 items

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FormatBook/TextCall numberTPY p.v. 49, no. 3Item locationSchwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315

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FormatBook/TextCall numberTPY (Massachusetts. Boston Elevated Railway Company, Special Commission to Consider the Financial Condition of the. Statement of the Boston Elevated Railway Company)Item locationOffsite

Report on the methods and practices of the Boston Elevated Railway Company, Boston ... to the Public Service Commission ... November, 1917.

Book/Text

Boston, Wright & Potter Prtg. Co., 1918.

1918

1 item

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FormatBook/TextCall numberTPY (Massachusetts. Public Service Commission. Report on the methods and practices of the Boston Elevated Railway Company, Boston) 1917Item locationOffsite

Report on Gothic arch elevated city railway.

Book/Text

New York, Trow & Smith, 1869.

1869

2 items

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FormatBook/TextCall numberTPY (Morgan, R. P. Report on Gothic arch elevated city railway)Item locationOffsite
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FormatBook/TextCall number(Parsons) VDCP p.v. 32Item locationSchwarzman Building - Rare Book Collection Room 328

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Physical plan for a transportation system for the city of Chicago. To the Committee on Local Transportation of the City Council of the city of Chicago; submitted by A.B. Allen, 1925.

Book/Text

[Chicago, A.B. Allen, cop. 1925]

1925

1 item

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FormatBook/TextCall numberTPY+ (Allen, A. B. Physical plan for a transportation system for the city of Chicago)Item locationOffsite

[Catalogue. Illustrated]

Book/Text

New York [190?]

190

1 item

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FormatBook/TextCall number(Parsons) VDCP+ (American Elevated Railroad Co., N.Y. [Catalogue])Item locationSchwarzman Building - Rare Book Collection Room 328

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Surveys of property in litigation--July, 1891 to Feb. 1892.

Book/Text

[Brooklyn, 1892]

1892

1 item

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FormatBook/TextCall numberTPY+ (Brooklyn elevated railroad company. Surveys of property in litigation)Item locationOffsite

Proceedings relating to the taxes of 1894 & 1895. Briefs, arguments and opinions, July 1894--October 1898.

Book/Text

New York, 1898.

1898

1 item

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FormatBook/TextCall numberTPY+ (Manhattan Railway Company vs. New York (city). Proceedings relating to the taxes)Item locationOffsite

Führung der Berliner Hoch ū Untergrundbahnen durch bebaute Viertel, vom technischen und städtebaulichen Standpunkt, von P. Wittig Geheimer Baurat, Direktor der Hochbahngesellschaft.

Book/Text

Berlin, Der Zirkel, Architektur-Verlag G.m.B.H., 1920.

1920

1 item

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FormatBook/TextCall numberTPY+ (Wittig, P. Fuhrung der Berliner Hoch u Untergrundbahnen durch bebaute Viertel)Item locationOffsite

New subways for New York: the dual system of rapid transit. Public Service Commission for First District, June, 1913.

Book/Text

[New York, 1913]

1913

1 item

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FormatBook/TextCall numberIXZ p.v. 296Item locationSchwarzman Building - General Research Room 315

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Gilbert elevated railroad. Arguments before the Railroad Committee of the Assembly, March 15th, 1877.

Book/Text

Albany, Times Co. Print, 1877.

1877

1 item

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FormatBook/TextCall number(Parsons) VDCP (New York (State). Railroads Committee (Assembly). Gilbert elevated railroad)Item locationSchwarzman Building - Rare Book Collection Room 328

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Robert A. Chesebrough's system of locomotion for elevated gravity railways : Patented July 14, 1868.

Book/Text

New York : Polhemus & Landis, printers, 1871.

1871

1 item

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FormatBook/TextCall number(Parsons) VDCP (Chesebrough, R. A. Robert A. Chesebrough's system of locomotion for elevated gravity railways)Item locationSchwarzman Building - Rare Book Collection Room 328

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[Collection of documents and reports submitted to the New York Rapid Transit Railroad Commissioners Board and the Manhattan Railway Company on the plans for improving the rapid transit facilities in New York City; collected by William B. Parsons]

Book/Text

[New York, 1898]

1898

1 item

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FormatBook/TextCall number(Parsons) VDCP (Collection of documents and reports submitted to the New York Rapid transit railroad commissioners board)Item locationSchwarzman Building - Rare Book Collection Room 328

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