Guide to the Monongahela Railway Company Photographs, 1903-1993 AIS.2009.07
1903-1993
Metadata Details
- Title
- Monongahela Railway Company photograph collection, 1903-1993, Photograph collection of the Monongahela Railway Company, 1903-1993
- Creator
- Subject
- Monongahela Railway Company., Buckhannon and Northern Railroad Company., Chicago and North Western Railway Company., Cincinnati, Hamilton and Dayton Railway Company., Cincinnati, Hamilton, and Dayton Railroad Company., Connellsville and Monongahela Railway Company., Connellsville and Monongahela Railway. Dunlap Creek Junction., Crucible Coal Company., Monongahela Railroad., Monongahela Railway Company. Big Meadow Run Yard., Monongahela Railway Company. Brownsville Junction., Monongahela Railway Company. Brownsville Station., Monongahela Railway Company. Jacobs Ferry Station., Monongahela Railway Company. Paw Paw Branch., Monongahela Railway Company. Rush Run Branch., Monongahela Railway Company. South Brownsville Yard and Shops., New York Central and Hudson River Railroad Company., Pennsylvania Railroad. West Brownsville Yard., Pennsylvania Railroad., Pittsburgh and Lake Erie Railroad Company., Québec, Montréal, and Southern Railway., Scotts Run Railway., Coal mines and mining--Photographs, Dwellings--Photographs, Farm buildings--Photographs, Industrial buildings--Photographs, Industrial housing--Photographs, Railroad accidents--Photographs, Railroad bridges--Photographs, Railroad stations--Photographs, Railroad trains--Photographs
- Description
- The Monongahela Railway Company Photograph Collection is comprised of photographic negatives, associated photographer's log books and indices, and a limited number of gelatin silver prints. The photographs, spanning the dates 1903-1993, were produced on spec for the Monongahela Railroad and the succeeding Monongahela Railway Company (MRY). The collection documents company property, buildings, railroad bridge construction, railroad equipment, railroad employees, railroad accidents and incidents, flooding and flood damage, as well as the surrounding municipalities of southwestern Pennsylvania and northern West Virginia where the railroad operated. Some specific examples include the 1909 construction of the never-used Rush Run branch of the railroad, the 1912 construction of the New Geneva Bridge across the Monongahela River, and a thorough documentation of MRY's railway signal towers in 1917., Monongahela Railway Company Photograph Collection, 1903-1993, AIS.2009.07, Archives Service Center, University of Pittsburgh., Gift of David E. Gratz on December 3, 2009., The Monongahela Railroad (MRR) was a joint enterprise of the Pittsburgh and Lake Erie Railroad (P&LE) and the Pennsylvania Railroad (PRR) and used for coal transportation throughout southwestern Pennsylvania and northern West Virginia. In 1906, the Baltimore and Ohio Railway (B&O) purchased a share of the Monongahela Railroad. This made them a partner in the Monongahela Railroad until its sale and absorption into the Conrail Corporation (CSX) in 1993. In 1915, while still owned by the PL&E, PRR, and B&O, the Monongahela Railroad consolidated with the Buckhannon & Northern Railroad forming the Monongahela Railway Company (MRY)., David E. Gratz served as superintendent of the Monongahela Railway Company from March 1, 1974 to October 1988. Prior to the railway's merger with Conrail in May of 1993, he served as the Director of Real Estate and Labor Relations. He was instrumental during the restructuring process that separated the MRY from the Pittsburgh and Lake Erie Railroad (the remaining partners being the Pennsylvania Railroad and the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad). In September of 1990, Gratz purchased the photographic library that documented the construction and operation of the railway and the accompanying indexes from the railroad. Gratz maintained and indexed the collection, which consisted of over 11,000 gelatin dry plate negatives, cellulose nitrate sheet film negatives, cellulose acetate sheet film negatives, and gelatin silver prints until its donation to the Archives Service Center at the University of Pittsburgh in 2009., Finding aid Available in repository and on Internet; http://digital.library.pitt.edu/cgi-bin/f/findaid/findaid-idx?type=simple;c=ascead;view=text;subview=outline;didno=US-PPiU-ais200907
- Publisher
- Contributor
- Monongahela Railway Company, Gratz, David E., University of Pittsburgh (depositor)
- Date
- 1903-1993
- Type
- Collection, Gelatin silver prints., Negatives (Photographic).
- Format
- Identifier
- pitt:US-PPiU-ais200907
- Source
- Language
- eng
- Relation
- http://digital.library.pitt.edu/cgi-bin/f/findaid/findaid-idx?type=simple;c=ascead;view=text;subview=outline;didno=US-PPiU-ais200907, http://digital.library.pitt.edu/images/pittsburgh/monrailway.html, pdcp_noharvest
- Coverage
- Adah (Pa.), Allison (Pa.), Antram Run (Pa.), Arensburg (Pa.), Beallsville (Pa.), Brave (Pa.), Brave Station (Pa.), Brownsville (Pa.), Connellsville (Pa.), Dunkard (Pa. : Township), Millsboro (Pa.), East Riverside (Pa.), Fairmont (W. Va.), Fairview (Marion County, W. Va.), Fayette County (Pa.), Fredericktown (Pa.), Gallatin (Fayette County, Pa.), Gates (Pa.), Georges Creek (Fayette County, Pa.), Grays Landing (Pa.), Greene County (Pa.), Huron (Pa.), Isabella (Fayette County, Pa.), La Belle (Pa.), Leckrone (Pa.), Luzerne (Fayette County, Pa. : Township), Maidsville (W. Va.), Marion County (W. Va.), Martin (Fayette County, Pa.), Masontown (Pa.), Maxwell (Pa.), Monongahela River Valley (W. Va. and Pa.), Monongalia County (W. Va.), Morgantown (W. Va.), Mount Sterling (Pa.), Nemacolin (Pa.), New Geneva (Pa.), New Geneva Railroad Bridge (New Geneva, Pa.), New Water Street (Brownsville, Fayette County, Pa.), Osage (W. Va.), Palmer (Fayette County, Pa.), Paw Paw (Marion County, W. Va.), Republic (Pa.), Rices Landing (Pa.), Rivesville (W. Va.), Ronco (Pa.), Rush Run (Fayette County, Pa.), Scotts Run (Monongalia County, W. Va.), Sugar Run (Greene County, Pa.), Washington County (Pa.), Waynesburg (Pa.), West Brownsville (Pa.), Westmoreland County (Pa.)
- Rights
- Copyright Not Evaluated. The copyright and related rights status of this Item has not been evaluated. Please refer to the organization that has made the Item available for more information. You are free to use this Item in any way that is permitted by the copyright and related rights legislation that applies to your use., http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/CNE/1.0/