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FILE NAME: Baldwin (BALD) DATE: 0000 DOC#: BALD058 DOCUMENT DESCRIPTION: Book Excerpt - Abbreviations and Other Sources [Due to Destruction of Original Baldwin Archive] ABBREVIATIONS AND ORIGINAL SOURCES Because much o f the Baldwin company's extensive archive was destroyed in the mid-1950s, this account necessarily draws on a wide range o f primary and secondary sources. Individuals who provided original sources are noted in the acknowledgments; institutional repositories are listed below. The abbreviations used in citations for major manuscript collections are given below. One other abbreviation form is used in the notes, a short-form citation for the Baldwin letterbooks (1844-66) in BLW -H SP. For example, a letter cited as IN 7/61 is found in the Incoming Letterbook dated July 1861; one listed as O U T 10/61 appears in the Outgoing Letterbook dated October 1861. H ISTORICAL SOCIETY OF PENNSYLVANIA, PH ILADELPH IA BLW -H SP: Baldwin Locomotive Works Papers. This collection o f 225 volumes o f papers and ledgers details Baldwin's history from 1836 to 1866. Donated to H SP by the company circa 1946, it includes 165 letterbooks, fifty volumes o f financial data, and approximately ten miscellaneous books, including three detailing the company's apprenticeship program. The letterbooks, which include incoming and outgoing correspondence, contain approximately one hundred thousand letters, bills, contracts, engine specifications, telegrams, and receipts. Each letterbook was selectively reviewed and every fifth book was read entirely. S M V -H S P : Samuel Matthews Vauclain Papers. This collection o f cor respondence, reports, and memoranda covers the period from 1905 to 1931, during which Vauclain was successively a partner, vice president, president, and chairman o f the company. John Clayton Papers: A small collection o f the personal and business papers o f Matthias Baldwin's son-in-law, John Clayton, who served as the company's legal counsel from circa 1845 to 1866. 48 A B B R E V I A T I O N S AND' O R IG IN A L SO U R C E S HAGLEY MUSEUM AND LIBRARY, W IL M IN G T O N , DELA-, 7ARE W L A -H A G : William Lisetcr Austin Collection. This collection meludes drawings, internal memos, photographs, and reports kept by Aust, n duruig fus career (1870-1932) at Baldwin, where he rose from a draftsman to .fnairman or the board. The collection includes shorthand notes taken by prcsii :ent Austsn in the summer of 1910 that detail inside contracting at the firm. I aere is an additional Austin collection at Hagley --cited in the notes as \X L- u'Bb-HAGconsisting of a number of notebooks outlining sales and design n. gotiat ions with customers. The Reading Company Collection: This large corporate archr. e of rhe Philadelphia and Reading Railway provides data on the earner s . 'equenr purchases of Baldwin engines (184OS-1920S). SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, WASHINGTON, D.C. B LW -N M AH : The Archives Center at the National Museum of American History holds a collection of Baldwins Order Books (eight volur es, 1854- [pcs and its construction lists or Registers of Engines (nine volumes. : A 2 - 1 9 T : . These sources provided much of the data on the variety m Balov, in 's p ro d u co , noted in chapter 3, and on the weight of output, discussed in ch. p ie r . I he Division of Transportation at N M A H also holds four scrapbook tha t were created at Baldwin between 1870 and 1930 to preserve historical .naveria!. The; mostly contain clippings from the technical press on Baldwin eri gines, but one volume was particularly valuable. It includes a sample of e\c rv p rin te d document Baldwin used in the 1870s and 1880s, including contr. ,ct form s, ins System blanks, employees rules, and instructions to fo rem en -r: anv or w h ic r are pictured here. DEGOLYER LIBRARY, S O U T H E R N M E T H O D I S T UNIVTri.R S IT Y . DALLAS, TEXAS S M V -D E G : The Samuel M. Vauclain Collection at DeGolyer covers the peno from 1882 to 1929, during which Vauclain rose from a foremans rip to Baldwin presidency. The collection includes Vauclain's Production Note: looks (rwenryseven volumes, 1888-1919). containing much detail on output, : evenues. the workforce, contracting, and so on. There are also a host of oth. r interna! company documents from the period 1900-1929. B LW -D E G : This repository also holds an extensive colleen: n or B aldw ins engineering data, including over eight thousand d r a w in g s (18m is--195OSI. Supporting volumes include the Law Books, Specification Boc es, and YX cighr Books (used to compile the weight index of output in chapter A abbreviations and original sources 249 DEPARTMENT OF SPECIAL COLLECTIONS, STANFORD UNIVERSITY LIBRARY, CALIFORNIA BLW-STAN: This is a small collection of Baldwin engineering data, covering the period 1854-1918. It provides detail on the evolution of drawing room practice in the mid-nineteenth century. OTHER REPOSITORIES AND COLLECTIONS CONSULTED Baker Library, Harvard Business School, Boston: library holdings Historical Society of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia: Wallace Rogers Lee apers, Herbert Welsh Collection, library holdings Van Pelt Library, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia: Philadelphia Social History Project Papers _ The Franklin Institute, Philadelphia: library holdings The Library Company, Philadelphia: library holdings Federal Archives Center, Philadelphia: Baldwin bankruptcy records ^ ) Ofice of the Registrar of Wills, City Hall, Philadelphia: wills of BLW partners Urban Archives, Paley Library, Temple University, Philadelphia: Central Labor Union minutes, library holdings Railroad Museum of Pennsylvania, Strasburg: BLW Board Meeting Minute Book (1910), BLW builders photographs, library holdings The Pennsylvania State Archives, Harrisburg: BLW Order Books (1901-7). Contract Books (1871-1930). engineering data . Pattee Library, Pennsylvania State University Library, University Park: Harring ton Emerson Papers . .. ,, Hagley Library, Wilmington, Delaware: Longwood Manuscripts, Sellers Com pany papers, R. G. Dun credit reports, Trade Catalogue Collection, library Library'of the Association of American Railroads, Washington, D .C.: library NHtmnalXchives, Washington, D .C.: Patent Extension Files, Papers of the U.S. Commission on Industrial Relations, manuscript schedules (microfilm) of the U.S. Manufacturing Census Library of Congress, Washington, D .C.: photography department Archives Center, National Museum of American History, Washington, D. - Pittsburgh Locomotive Works Papers SERIALS To supplement these original sources, the following serials were consulted (specific citations to major articles appear in the bibliography) ABBREVIATIONS AND ORIGINAL SOURCES t Am erican M achinist, vols. 1-37 Annals o f the American Academy o f Political and Social Science, vols. 1-4 2 A n n u al Reports o f the American Railway Master Mechanics Association, vols. 1-48 B aldw in Locomotives, vols. 1-19 Baldw in Locom otive Works, Records o f Recent Construction, nos. 1- 10 0 Cassier's M agazine, various Engineer (Philadelphia), vol. 1 Engineering (London), various Engineering M agazine, vols. 1-4 0 F in ch er's Trades Review, vols. 1- 2 H illy er's Am erican Railroad M agazine, vols. 1-6 Iron Age, 1880-90 Jo u rn a l o f the Franklin Institute, vols. 1-17 0 M achinists' an d Blacksmiths' InternationalJourn al, vols. 8-9 M achinists M onthly Journal, vols. 9 -27 N ew York Times, various : Philadelphia Evening Bulletin, various Philadelphia Inquirer, various Philadelphia Public Ledger, various Proceedings o f the Engineers Club o f Philadelphia, vols. 1-33 R ailroad Gazette (a.k.a. Railw ay Age Gazette), vols. 1-59 R ailw ay M aster M echanic, vols. 27-28 Scientific Am erican, vols. 4 -14 ; new series vols. 1-23 Transactions o f the Am erican Society o fM echanical Engineers, vols. 1-2 0 Van Nostrand's Eclectic Engineering M agazine, various