The John Crerar Library
A list of Books on the History of Industry and industrial Arts

RAILROADING 283 New York. Public Service Commission. 352.0747 N42150 1909 v.i 80793 ist District. History and description of rapid transit routes in New York City adopted under the Rapid transit act, embracing routes con- structed, under construction and validated for construction, to- gether with a map of each route and a combination map show- ing all such routes; also routes laid out but not validated up to December 31, 1909. (In its Report. Albany, 1910. 22icm. 1909, vol. I, p. 165-274. XXXI plans, I fold, map.) • Poor, John Alfred. 656.09270 P79 8833 The first international railway and The colonization of New Eng- land. Life and writings of John Alfred Poor. Edited by Laura Elizabeth Poor. v,4OO p. O. New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1892. Contents: The life of John Alfred Poor. List of published writings. First article on the St. Lawrence and Atlantic Railway; for the “Sherbrooke gazette”. First article on the Atlantic and St. Lawrence Railway; for the “Portland advertiser”. Plan foi shortening the time of passage between New York and London. The northeastern boundary; report of the Select Committee of the House of Representatives. An Amer- ican Zoll-Verein; letter to the Ship-Canal Convention. The transcontinental railway; address delivered at Rutland, Vermont, June, 1869. A national highway; memorial to the Congress of the United States. A bill to secure cheap transportation of breadstuffs at uniform rates. The father of English colonization in America: a vindication of the claims of Sir Ferdinando Gorges; delivered before the Historical Societies of Maine and New York, 1859. The first colonization of New England; an address delivered at Fort Popham, Maine, 1862. [Stennett, W H j 656.091 C4366 80671 Yesterday and today. A history of the Chicago and North Western Railway system. Third edition, revised and enlarged. Chicago, [Winship Co., printer], 1910. [8], 199, [3] p. ind. illus., tables. 8 pl., I fold. map. 23icm. Stimson, Alexander Lovett. 656.0973 O101 10743 History of the express business; including the origin of the rail- way system in America, and the relation of both to the increase of new settlements and the prosperity of cities in the United States. [New edition.] 388 p. 3 pl. 8 por. O. New York: Baker & Godwin, 1881. Warman, Cy. 656.0978 P800 16520 The story of t|ie railroad. xviii,28o p. 13 pl. 2 maps. D. [Story of the West series.] New York: D. Appleton & Co., 1898.