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https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/ebadea02-7f2c-4998-b1d2-392759509150
Collection
Transportation Collection
Title
Transportation Collection
Object ID
MG0123
Date Range
1819-1977
Note: The Transportation Collection contains documents regarding turnpikes, railroads, Conestoga Traction Company, Conestoga Transportation Company, and the Red Rose Transit Authority. The types of items include correspondence, financial papers, business papers, stock certificates, tickets, schedules
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Collection
Transportation Collection
Title
Transportation Collection
Description
The Transportation Collection contains documents regarding turnpikes, railroads, Conestoga Traction Co., Conestoga Transportation Co., and the Red Rose Transit Authority. The types of items include correspondence, financial papers, business papers, stock certificates, tickets, schedules, maps of routes, and a blueprint.
Date Range
1819-1977
Year Range From
1819
Year Range To
1977
Date of Accumulation
1819-1977
Creator
LancasterHistory (Organization)
Storage Location
LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA
Storage Room
Archives South
Storage Wall
Side 04
People
Bitner, John R.
Boardman, Harris
Bowman, John Jacob
Boyer, Zaccur Prall
Cirt, Anna N.
Griest, William Walton
Hostetter, Albert Keller
Kemrer, Clarence M.
Knapp, Walter
Kreider, Kate
Kriebel, Howard Wiegner
McClellan, Oliver Eldridge
Royer, David
Shuman, James P.
Wohlsen, Anna
Wohlsen, Peter
Subjects
Letters
Minutes (Records)
Philadelphia & Reading Railroad Co.
Philadelphia and Lancaster Turnpike (Pa.)
Posters
Railroads
Rates and tolls
Reading & Columbia Railroad Company
Street-railroads
Trolley cars
Search Terms
Adamstown
Bittersville, Lower Windsor Twp., York County, Pennsylvania
Blueprints
Booklets
Brochures
Campbelltown, South Londonderry Twp., Lebanon County, Pennsylvania
Center Square Road Station
Chestnut Street
Christiana
Coatesville, Chester County, Pennsylvania
Columbia
Columbia, Ironville and Mount Joy Railroad
Conestoga Traction Company
Conestoga Transportation Company
Conewago Water and Power Company
Correspondence
Dallastown, York County, Pennsylvania
Drawings
Duke Street
East Belt line
East King Street
East Petersburg, East Hempfield Twp.
Elizabethtown
Engleside, Lancaster Twp.
Ephemera
Ephrata
Express Printing Company
Greeting cards
Hanover, York County, Pennsylvania
Hershey, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania
Ironville, West Hempfield Twp.
J. G. Brill Company
Kinport Road
Lancaster
Lancaster and York Furnace Street Railway
Lancaster and Columbia Division, Conestoga Transportation Company
Lancaster and Lititz Passenger Railroad Company
Lancaster, Elizabethtown, and Middletown Turnpike
Lebanon, Lebanon County, Pennsylvania
Letters
Lititz
Maple Grove
Maps
Marietta Avenue
North Market Street
Mechanicsburg, Upper Leacock Twp.
Mechanicsville, East Hempfield Twp.
Minutes
Mount Joy
Mulberry Street
National Railway Historical Society
Neffsville, Manheim Twp.
North End Photo Finishing House
North Lime Street
North Queen Street
Palmyra, Lebanon County, Pennsylvania
Parkesburg, Chester County, Pennsylvania
Penn Square
Pequea Twp.
Philadelphia and Lancaster Turnpike Company
Philadelphia and Reading Railroad Company
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Photographs
Placards
Substations
President Avenue
Princess Street
Prospect Street
Quarryville
Railroads
Rates and tolls
Reading and Columbia Railroad Company
Receipts
Red Rose Transit Authority
Reports
Roads
Rocky Springs Railroad Company
Schuylkill Navigation Company
Scrapbooks
South Mountain Railroad
South Queen Street
Stock certificates
Susquehanna Railroad
Tickets
Tolls
Trolley car barns
Trolley car yards
Trolley cars
Trolleys
Turnpikes
Walnut Street
WGAL (television station)
Williams Park Station
Willow Street Turnpike
Windsor Twp., York County, Pennsylvania
WLAN (radio station)
Wrightsville, York County, Pennsylvania
York Bus Company
York Fair
York Railway Company
Extent
2 boxes, 31 folders, 1 cubic ft.
Object Name
Archive
Language
English
Object ID
MG0123
Location of Originals
LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania
Notes
Preferred Citation: Title or description of item, date (day, month, year), Transportation Collection (MG0123), Folder #, LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania.
Access Conditions / Restrictions
Restrictions are noted at the item level.
Copyright
Collection may not be photocopied. Please direct questions to Research Center Staff at research@lancasterhistory.org.
Permission for reproduction and/or publication must be obtained in writing from LancasterHistory.
Credit
Courtesy of LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania.
Other Numbers
MG-123
Classification
MG0123
Description Level
Fonds
Custodial History
Added to database 23 September 2021.
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[Conestoga Trans. Co. poles with P.P.L. attachments, Penna. Power & Light poles with C.T.C.O. attchaments : Lancaster city s. w. [i.e. southwest section]

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo15841
Date of Publication
19--?].
Call Number
974.815 LACI 148
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Conestoga Transportation Company poles with Pennsylvania Power and Light attachments
Pennsylvania Power and Light poles with C.T.C.O. attachments
Place of Publication
[S.l
Publisher
s.n.,
Date of Publication
19--?].
Physical Description
1 plan : blue line ; 56 x 87 cm.
Notes
Title from legend.
Subjects
Conestoga Transportation Company - Electric equipment - Pennsylvania - Lancaster - Maps.
Pennsylvania Power & Light Company - Electric equipment - Pennsylvania - Lancaster - Maps.
Electric lines - Maps.
Lancaster (Pa.) - Maps.
Additional Corporate Author
Conestoga Transportation Company.
Pennsylvania Power & Light Company.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Map
Call Number
974.815 LACI 148
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[Conestoga Trans. Co. pole with P.P.L. attachment, Penna. Power & Light Co. pole with C.T.C.O. attachment : Lancaster city s. e. [i.e. southeast] section]

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo15840
Date of Publication
19--?].
Call Number
974.815 LACI 147
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Conestoga Transportation Company pole with Pennsylvania Power and Light attachment
Pennsylvania Power and Light Company pole with C.T.C.O. attachment
Place of Publication
[S.l
Publisher
s.n.,
Date of Publication
19--?].
Physical Description
1 plan : blue line ; 56 x 87 cm.
Notes
Title from legend.
Subjects
Conestoga Transportation Company - Electric equipment - Pennsylvania - Lancaster - Maps.
Pennsylvania Power & Light Company - Electric equipment - Pennsylvania - Lancaster - Maps.
Electric lines - Maps.
Lancaster (Pa.) - Maps.
Additional Corporate Author
Conestoga Transportation Company.
Pennsylvania Power & Light Company.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Map
Call Number
974.815 LACI 147
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Conestoga Transportation Company, 1931-1976

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo393
Author
Sauer, Robert E.
Date of Publication
1977
Conestoga Transportation Company 1931-1976 by Robert E. Sauer, Jr. A four-mile horsecar line between Lancaster and Millersville opened in November 1874 was the first transit route in the network that was to become Conestoga Transportation Co. The first electric line in the area started operating
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Responsibility
by Robert E. Sauer, Jr.
Author
Sauer, Robert E.
Place of Publication
Lancaster, Pa
Publisher
Lancaster County Historical Society,
Date of Publication
1977
Physical Description
[160]-163 p.: ill. ; 23 cm.
Series
Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society ; v. 81, no. 3
Subjects
Conestoga Transportation Company.
Contained In
Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society. Volume 81, number 3 (1977), p. 160-163Lancaster History Library - Journal974.9 L245 v.81
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Legal report on Edison Electric Company, the Lancaster Electric Light, Heat and Power Company, Conestoga Valley Electric Company, Intercourse Electric Company, Wrightsville Light and Power Company, the Lancaster Gas Light and Fuel Company, (The) Columbia Gas Company, Lititz Gas Company, Conestoga Transmission Company, Lancaster County Railway and Light Company, Wrightsville Water Supply Company, Conestoga Realty Company, Conestoga Terminal Company, Conestoga Transportation Company

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo17646
Date of Publication
[19--]
Call Number
352.91 L496 Oversize
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Place of Publication
[S.l
Publisher
s.n.],
Date of Publication
[19--]
Physical Description
[12p.], 347 p. ; 33 cm.
Notes
Includes index.
Subjects
Edison Electric Company.
Lancaster Electric Light, Heat and Power Company.
Conestoga Valley Electric Company.
Intercourse Electric Company.
Wrightsville Light and Power Company.
Lancaster Gas Light and Fuel Company.
Columbia Gas Company.
Lititz Gas Company.
Conestoga Transmission Company.
Lancaster County Railway and Light Company.
Wrightsville Water Supply Company.
Conestoga Realty Company.
Conestoga Terminal Company.
Conestoga Transportation Company.
Public utilities - Pennsylvania - Lancaster.
Water utilities - Pennsylvania - Lancaster.
Electric utilities - Pennsylvania - Lancaster.
Gas companies - Pennsylvania - Lancaster.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Lancaster County
Call Number
352.91 L496 Oversize
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Negative

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/3fb92806-d078-4161-8166-454588739208
Collection
General Collection
Object ID
2-19-07-05
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Object Name
Negative
Collection
General Collection
Description
Negative of Conestoga Transportation Co., First Buses for Race Avenue Service
Storage Location
LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA
Subcategory
Documentary Artifact
Search Terms
Negatives
Race Avenue
Conestoga Transportation Company
Buses
Object Name
Negative
Print Size
7 x 11 inches
Condition
Good
Object ID
2-19-07-05
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Negative

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/30fe2285-ff9e-45dd-8931-925898233669
Collection
General Collection
Object ID
2-19-07-06
Date Range
1924
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Object Name
Negative
Collection
General Collection
Description
Negative of Conestoga Transportation Co., First Buses for Race Avenue Service
Date Range
1924
Storage Location
LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA
Subcategory
Documentary Artifact
Search Terms
Negatives
Race Avenue
Conestoga Transportation Company
Buses
Object Name
Negative
Print Size
7 x 11 inches
Condition
Good
Object ID
2-19-07-06
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Negative

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/6d55e925-769c-48c6-bb9d-862738083491
Collection
General Collection
Object ID
2-19-07-07
Date Range
1924
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Object Name
Negative
Collection
General Collection
Description
Negative of Conestoga Transportation Co., First Buses for Race Avenue Service
Date Range
1924
Storage Location
LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA
Subcategory
Documentary Artifact
Search Terms
Negatives
Race Avenue
Conestoga Transportation Company
Buses
Object Name
Negative
Print Size
7 x 11 inches
Condition
Good
Object ID
2-19-07-07
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Padlock

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/e6783e27-12f8-4c61-b19c-811384258714
Collection
History Collection
Object ID
2017.004
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Collection
History Collection
Description
Padlock made by Slaymaker Lock Company for Conestoga Traction Company. Brass with key, attached by a chain. Ring and screw attaching chain to lock and key are steel or aluminum and probably replaced. Rivet construction. "Slaymaker Lancaster PA" is stamped in hasp. Spring hinge cover of keyhole. On reverse, raised portion that mimicks keyhole cover is stamped "C.T.Co."
Search Terms
Slaymaker Lock Company
Conestoga Traction Company
Conestoga Transportation Company
Object Name
Padlock
Length (cm)
39.37
Length (ft)
1.2916666667
Length (in)
15.5
Dimension Details
padlock:3.5inLx2.5inW
key: 2inLx1inW
Condition
Good
Condition Date
2017-03-24
Condition Notes
overall oxidation that darkens the brass -- greenish cast in a few places. dents along edges of lock and on keyhole cover. bolt and keyring attaching chain to lock and key is likely a replacement.
Object ID
2017.004
Accession Number
2017.004
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Print, Photographic

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/1369eff3-dc91-4200-90f6-280922302918
Collection
General Collection
Object ID
2-18-06-25
Date Range
September 20, 1954
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Object Name
Print, Photographic
Collection
General Collection
Description
Two Bus with signs on it that pertains to Mothers March on Polio.
Date Range
September 20, 1954
Storage Location
LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA
Subcategory
Documentary Artifact
Search Terms
Mother's March on Polio
Buses
Conestoga Transportation Company
Object Name
Print, Photographic
Print Size
4 x 6 inches
Condition
Good
Object ID
2-18-06-25
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