Title: National Railroad Museum Records
Inclusive Dates: 1956-1959

Creator:

• National Railroad Museum (Green Bay, Wis.)

Call Number: Green Bay Mss 149

Quantity: 0.4 c.f. (1 archives box)

Repository:

Housed at the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay Archives and Area Research Center; owned by the Wisconsin Historical Society, Division of Library, Archives, and Museum Collections

Archival Locations:

COLLECTION MAY BE STORED OFF-SITE: see catalog entry to request materials and for additional information.

UW-Green Bay Cofrin Library / Green Bay Area Research Ctr. (Map)

Abstract:

Correspondence, memoranda, press releases, and clippings from Museum Information Executive Harold T. I. Shannon's office dealing with administrative plans, publicity, fundraising, and attempts to get Congressional recognition as a national museum. The museum was the idea of railroad historian Carl R. Gray, Jr. and was to be operated by the State Historical Society of Wisconsin, but was opened as an independent museum in 1961.

Language: English

URL to cite for this finding aid: http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/wiarchives.uw-whs-gb0149

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This portion of the records of the National Railroad Museum contains papers from the office of Harold T. I. Shannon, Information Executive of the Museum. Included are correspondence, memoranda, press releases, and clippings, 1956-1959. The records cover administrative plans, publicity, fund raising, and attempts to get Congressional recognition as THE national railroad museum. A major deterrent to this recognition was the opposition of the Museum of Transport at St. Louis, Missouri. Most correspondence is with former and present railroad employees who applied for Museum membership, and with executives of railroad organizations and publications.

Acquisition Information

Transferred from the SHSW Museum, June 23, 1965. Originally presented by Harold T. I. Shannon, Green Bay, Wisconsin.

Processing Information

Processed by Karen Baumann, June 4, 1969.

Box   1 Folder   1	Administration, 1956-1958
Box   1 Folder   2	Levin, Ruben (Labor), 1957-1959
Box   1 Folder   3	Lyon, A. E. (Railway Labor Executives Association), 1958
	Members
Box   1 Folder   4	1957-1958
Box   1 Folder   5	1959, Jan. 1-15
Box   1 Folder   6	1959, Jan. 16-31, undated
Box   1 Folder   7	1959, Feb. - March
Box   1 Folder   8	Miscellaneous information, 1957-1958
Box   1 Folder   9	Museum of Transport, St. Louis, Missouri, 1957-1959
Box   1 Folder   10	Perkins, Robert H. (The Railway Clerk), 1957-1958
Box   1 Folder   11	Publicity, 1957-1958
Box   1 Folder   12	Re: Railroading in Eighteen Countries, 1957-1959