Overview of the Collection |
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| Creator: | Fish, Stuyvesant, 1851-1923. |
| Title: | Stuyvesant Fish Railway Congress Scrapbooks |
| Inclusive Dates: | 1898, 1905 |
| Bulk Dates: | 1905 |
| Quantity: | 0.5 linear ft. |
| Abstract: | Papers of the American railroad executive. 1 letter, 2 scrapbooks containing newspaper clippings relating to the 1905 International Railway Congress. |
| Language: | English |
| Repository: | Special Collections Research Center, Syracuse University Library 222 Waverly Avenue Syracuse, NY 13244-2010 http://scrc.syr.edu |
Stuyvesant Fish (1851-1923) was an American businessman and railroad executive. He served as president of the Illinois Central Railroad from 1887 to 1906. He and his wife Marion, or Mamie, had a large home in Newport, Rhode Island, and were important members of Newport society.
The Stuyvesant Fish Collection consists of two scrapbooks of clippings relating to the 1905 International Railway Congress, and a single letter from Fish to Richard McCurdy of the Mutual Life Insurance company.
The single letter is foldered at the end of the collection.
COLLECTION IS CURRENTLY CLOSED TO RESEARCHERS.
Written permission must be obtained from SCRC and all relevant rights holders before publishing quotations, excerpts or images from any materials in this collection.
Special Collections Research Center has a substantial amount of material relating to railroads in America. Please refer to the SCRC Subject Index for a complete listing.
Preferred citation for this material is as follows:
Stuyvesant Fish Collection,
Special Collections Research Center,
Syracuse University Library
Created by: --
Date: Nov 1994
Revision history: 2 Oct 2008 - converted to EAD (MRC)
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| RESTRICTED: COLLECTION IS CURRENTLY CLOSED TO RESEARCHERS. | |||||||||||
| Box 1 | Letter June 1898 | ||||||||||
| Scrapbooks | |||||||||||
| Box 1 | International Railway Congress clippings 1905 (2 volumes) | ||||||||||
