Collection Guide

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Agency Note

See a history of the Chicago Rock Island and Pacific at the Kansas State Historical Society web site:

http://www.kshs.org/research/collections/documents/businessrecords/business_records_findingaids/chicago_rr.htm

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Box Contents List

SERIES I: CORRESPONDENCE

Box C1-C6

Monthly letters to the Board of Directors from the various departments within the Chicago Rock Island and Pacific Railway, compiled by Mr. J.E. Gorman, President (File 3208), organized by year/month

Box C1

1920, August -- December

1921, January -- March, November -- December

1922, January -- October

Box C2

1923, January, December

1924, July

1925, May -- June, August -- December

1926, January - December

1927, August

Box C3

1927, September -- December

1928, January -- October

1930, January -- July

Box C4

1930, August -- December

1931, January -- December

1932, August -- December

Box C5

1933, January -- December

1934, September -- December

1935, January -- June

Box C6

1935, July -- December

1937, January -- December

1938, January -- December

1939, January -- December

1940, January -- December

1941, January -- February

Box C7

Letters transmitting payments on third liberty loan bonds

1919, January -- December

1920, January -- February

General correspondence relative to various operating and non-operating brotherhoods, part 9 (File 9299)

Folder 1: 1977

Folder 2: 1978

Folder 3: 1979

Box C8-C9

Correspondence with the Pilot and the Interstate Commerce Commission

Box C8

Folder 1 (Section #119, 1915 --1924)

Folder 2 (Section #119 valuation, 1928 --1936)

Folder 3 (Section #127, 1915 --1922)

Folder 4 (Section #129, 1915 --1925)

Folder 5 (Section #130, 1915 --1924)

Folder 6 (Section #130a, 1925 --1926)

Folder 7 (Section #131, 1915 --1920)

Folder 8 (Section #133, 1915 --1927)

Box C9

Folder 9 (Section #140, 1918 --1935)

Folder 10 (Section #147, 1915 --1917)

Folder 11 (Section #147, 1918 --1929)

Folder 12 (Section #147 valuation, 1930 --1935)

Folder 13 (Section #155, 1915 --1918)

Folder 14 (Section #155, 1920 --1927)

Folder 15 (Section #155 valuation, 1929 --1937)

Folder 16 (Section #155 valuation, 1938 --1945)

Folder 17 (Section #156, 1915 -- 1916)

 

SERIES II: ADMINISTRATIVE

Annual reports of CRIP to the Interstate Commerce Commission for 1929-1939 (ending in December)

1929

1930

1933 (7 copies)

1934 (2 copies)

1935

1936

1937 (2 copies)

1938 (2 copies)

1939 [ends in August]

Engineer Department Files

Box A1

Capital Expenditures, by Valuation Section No.

Folder 1: 108, vol. no. 4 (1937 -- 1943)

Folder 2: 108, vol. no. 5 (1944 -- 1949)

Folder 3: 108, vol. no. 6 (1950 -- 1955)

Folder 4: 109, vol. no. 1 (1926 -- 1943)

Folder 5: 124, vol. no. 5 (1939 -- 1944)

Box A2

Capital Expenditures, by Valuation Section No..

Folder 6: 140, vol. no. 2 (1936 -- 1944)

Folder 7: 143, vol. no. 1 (1915 -- 1941)

Folder 8: 144, vol. no. 1 (1915 -- 1943)

Folder 9: 152-152A, vol. no. 2 (1944 -- 1957)

Folder 10: 154, vol. no. 1 (1915 -- 1952)

Folder 11: 200G, vol. no. 1 (1915 -- 1945)

Folder 12: 201, vol. no. 2 (1928-1942)

Feasibility Study, Des Moines River Bank Erosion, Iowa and Missouri

June 1976 (draft)

June 1976

Property Value

[valuation of] CM & St.P Property in Muscatine, Iowa

Repair/Construction Reports

Burlington Line (M.P. 2.71-100)

Chicago-Davenport (M.P. 6.7-20)

Keokuk-Des Moines (M.P. 0-20)

Keokuk-Des Moines (M.P. 20-38)

Keokuk-Des Moines (M.P. 38-64)

Keokuk-Des Moines (M.P. 64-90)

Keokuk-Des Moines (M.P. 90-314)

Oskaloosa Branch (M.P. 301-305)

Vinton-Sioux Falls (M.P. 23-45)

Vinton-Sioux Falls (M.P. 45-97)

Soil investigation

RIRR in Des Moines

Statements

Reasoner to Monroe (1928) & Reasoner to Newton (1935)

Box A3

Station Files (See index)

Abbott Crossing, Iowa

Centerdale, Iowa

Cleves, Iowa

Cone, Iowa

Des Moines, Iowa : Building, General

Des Moines, Iowa : Depot and Office Bldg.

Des Moines, Iowa : Land & Right of Way

Des Moines, Iowa : Public Works, General (Folder 1)

Des Moines, Iowa : Public Works, General (Folder 2)

Des Moines, Iowa : Station, General

Des Moines, Iowa : Utilities

Iowa Falls, Iowa

Morning Sun, Iowa

Morrison, Iowa

Nichols, Iowa

Palmer, Iowa

Reinbeck, Iowa

Robertson, Iowa

Rowan, Iowa

Terminal Facilities

Clinton, Iowa (1939)

Clinton, Iowa (1940)

Financial Files

Des Moines & Central Iowa Railway Co., Balance Sheet (1959 -- 1960)

Fort Dodge , Des Moines & Southern Railway Co. , Balance Sheet (1959 -- 1960)

Box A4

Financial Files

Iowa Transfer Railway Co., Balance Sheet (1957 -- 1961)

Keokuk Union Depot Co., Balance Sheet (1957 -- 1961)

Rock Island Motor Transit Co.

Audit bills (1975 -- 1978)

Balance Sheet/Income Account (1976 -- 1978)

Cash Flow (1975 -- 1975)

Income Statements (1970 -- 1975)

Uncollected Report Analysis (1971 -- 1978)

Treasury Department Files (Treasury Securities Record Number)

15-year Debentures, 1932 -- 1947

America Savings Bank & Trust, Davenport , IA [also Liquidation Corporation] (321)

Bonds

Burlington, Cedar Rapids & Minnesota Railroad (7)

Burlington, Cedar Rapids & Northern Railway

Consolidated 1st mortgage bonds (199)

Mutilated 1st mortgage bonds converted to registered bonds (6)

Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railway of Iowa (257)

Keokuk & Des Moines Railway Co.

United States Liberty Bonds (284)

Owned by K & DM (290)

Owned by CRIP (295)

Northern Railroad Company, Des Moines & Iowa Falls (233)

Equipment notes and coupons

Bettendorf Company (273)

Membership Certificates (See Index)

Benton County Electric Coop (378, no. 1)

Benton County Electric Coop (378, no. 2)

Benton County Electric Coop (378, no. 3)

O'Brien County Electric Coop (406)

Box A5

Treasury Department Files

Stocks

Annual Meeting of the Stockholders of CRIP, April 12, 1915

Burlington Muscatine & Northern Railway (359)

Burlington Rock Island Railroad Company (296)

Cedar Rapids & Clinton Railway Company (23)

Cedar Rapids Auditorium Company (24)

Cedar Rapids, Garner & N.W. Railway Company (21)

Cedar Rapids, Iowa Falls & N.W. Railroad Company (17)

Chillicothe & Des Moines City Railway Company (133)

Council Bluffs Auditorium Company (189)

Des Moines & Central Iowa Railway Company (392)

Des Moines & Fort Dodge Railroad Company (39)

Des Moines & Southern Railway Company (144)

Des Moines & Western (225)

Des Moines Coliseum Company (226)

Des Moines, Iowa Falls & Northern Commercial Exchange (227)

Des Moines, Iowa Falls & Northern Railroad Company (229)

Iowa City & Western Railway Company (62)

Iowa Minnesota & North Pacific Railway Company (155)

Keokuk & Des Moines Railway Company (74)

Railroad Company, St. Paul & Des Moines (174)

Waterloo Railroad Company (391)

Waverly Short Line (116)

Vouchers and Ledgers

Iowa county property taxes, 1890

Adair - Webster Counties

Iowa county property taxes, 1891

Adair - Webster Counties

Iowa county property taxes, 1892

Adair - Webster Counties

Box A6

Vouchers and Ledgers

Iowa county property taxes, 1893

Adair - Webster Counties

Iowa county property taxes, 1894

Adair - Webster Counties

Iowa county property taxes, 1896

Adair - Webster Counties

Iowa county property taxes, 1899

Scott County

Iowa county road taxes

Adair - Webster Counties

Iowa county road taxes: Iowa Corporations

1886

1892

1893

1895

1896

1897

Payments received on road taxes, by county

Adair - Webster Counties

Supervisors' receipts

October 16, 1902

November 20, 1902

Wage Agreements

American Train Dispatchers Association

Conductors

Hotel & Restaurant Employees & Bartenders

Locomotive Engineers (Brotherhood of)

Locomotive Firemen (Brotherhood of)

Mechanical Department Foremen (American Railway Supervisors' Association)

Non-Operating Brotherhoods

Switchmen & Switchenders (Brotherhood of)

Trainmen & Dining Car Stewards

Yardmasters of America (Brotherhood of)

SERIES III: LEGAL

Legal Department files—16 Wonder boxes plus 4 small boxes

SERIES IV: PRINTED MATERIAL

Essays

Maps—3 small boxes

"Right of Way of the Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific R.R. Through Washington, Keokuk, Mahaska & Marion Co., State of Iowa." Oversize folio manuscripts maps to scale 1" = 500 feet.

SERIES V: REAL ESTATE

Abandonment files—2 boxes (or 3 boxes?)

Contracts—29 boxes (Partially processed) (24, 25, 26?)

A -- H

I -- Q

R -- Z

Easements

Industrial department files—10 boxes (all here)

Lease Cancellations—22 boxes (all here)

Leases—9 boxes

Ordinances

Sales—28 boxes (all here)

SERIES VI: MISCELLANEOUS

 Elevators

 

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