Title: Raymond Specht Railroad Depot Records
Inclusive Dates: 1889-1964

Creator:

• Specht, Raymond

Call Number: M76-487

Quantity: 117.0 c.f. (110 record center cartons and 14 flat boxes), 29 negatives, and 1 photograph

Repository:

Wisconsin Historical Society, Division of Library, Archives, and Museum Collections

Archival Locations:

Wisconsin Historical Society (Map)

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

Abstract:

Railroad depot records, 1889-1964, collected by Raymond Specht, from various railroads serving Wisconsin communities, including the Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis, and Omaha Railroad; the Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Railroad; the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Railroad (the Milwaukee Road); and the Green Bay and Western Railway.

Language: English

URL to cite for this finding aid: http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/wiarchives.uw-whs-m76487

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Records include waybills; monthly statements of freight forwarded and received; daily and monthly balance sheets; agent remittance forms; petty cash disbursements, and reports of cash on hand; payroll records; records of train movements; debits and credits for the station, passenger ticket sales books, and correspondence; circular letters and bulletins, accident reports, and rail yard check books, rules and regulation manuals, railroad journals from the 1950s and 1960s, and miscellaneous reports and publications.

Contents are listed by depot and county with a few listings from Michigan and Iowa states.

Acquisition Information

Presented by Raymond Specht. Accession Number: M76-487

M76-487 Box   101	Almena, Barron, 1949-1960
Box   71	Almond, Portage, 1931-1957
Box   91	Almond, Portage, 1952-1957
Box   113	Almond, Portage, 1933-1956
Box   26	Ames, Iowa (state), 1959-1960
Box   8	Amherst, Portage, 1959-1959
Box   47	Amherst Junction, Portage, 1928-1960
Box   103	Ashland, Ashland, 1950-1956
Box   6	Babcock, Wood, 1918, 1931-1948
Box   68	Babcock, Wood, 1934-1957
Box   103	Babcock, Wood, 1938-1938
Box   114	Babcock, Wood, 1941-1955
Box   103	Bangor, La Crosse, 1950-1954
Box   6	Bark River, Delta, Michigan, 1938-1960
Box   107	Bark River, Delta, Michigan, 1937-1939, 1946-1953
Box   11	Barneveld, Iowa (county), 1952-1959
Box   14	Barneveld, Iowa (county), 1954-1959
Box   8	Bear Creek, Outagamie, 1952-1957
Box   106	Big Suamico, Brown, 1940-1946
Box   103	Birchwood, Washburn, 1920, 1956
Box   111	Birnamwood, Shawano, 1921-1924
Box   60	Bonduel, Shawano, 1942-1959
Box   27	Bowler, Shawano, 1952-1955
Box   52	Bowler, Shawano, 1929-1958
Box   103	Bowler, Shawano, 1953-1958
Box   107	Brampton, Delta, Michigan, 1952-1961
Box   8	Brill, Barron, 1933-1959
Box   102	Bryant, Langlade, 1953-1953
Box   105	Cato, Manitowoc, 1952-1959
Box   17	Cedar Grove, Sheboygan, 1948-1963
Box   92	Chili, Clark, 1919-1928, 1951-1957
Box   38	Cottage Grove, Dane, 1950-1954
Box   105	Cottage Grove, Dane, 1943-1957
Box   105	Custer, Portage, 1948-1956
Box   111	Custer, Portage, 1952-1960
Box   82	Deerbrook, Langlade, 1947-1959
Box   11	Dodgeville, Iowa (county), 1947-1959
Box   12	Dodgeville, Iowa (county), 1953-1958
Box   13	Dodgeville, Iowa (county), 1934-1964
Box   14	Dodgeville, Iowa (county), 1940-1959
Box   107	Dodgeville, Iowa (county), 1902-1902
Box   79	Drummond, Bayfield, 1929-1958
Box   9	Dundas, Calumet, 1931-1959
Box   115	Dundas, Calumet, 1952-1958
Box   22	Eden, Fond du Lac, 1950-1958
Box   102	Eden, Fond du Lac, 1951-1958
Box   63	Edgar, Marathon, 1947-1959
Box   97	Edgar, Marathon, 1946-1955
Box   28	Eland, Shawano, 1954
Box   29	Eland, Shawano, 1954-1956
Box   30	Eland, Shawano, 1955-1956
Box   31	Eland, Shawano, 1955-1956 (continued)
Box   58	Eland, Shawano, 1954-1956
Box   59	Eland, Shawano, 1952-1956
Box   102	Elcho, Langlade, 1955-1960
Box   105	Elcho, Langlade, 1956-1959
Box   14	Eleva, Trempealeau, 1952-1959
Box   107	Eleva, Trempealeau, 1957-1958
Box   27	Florence, Florence, 1912-1957
Box   32	Florence, Florence, 1949-1957
Box   15	Francis Creek, Manitowoc, 1938-1959
Box   34	Francis Creek, Manitowoc, 1952-1958
Box   93	Francis Creek, Manitowoc, 1950-1957
Box   94	Francis Creek, Manitowoc, 1952-1957
Box   97	Glen Flora, Rusk, 1926-1927
Box   69	Glen Oak, Marquette, 1926, 1945-1959
Box   114	Glen Oak, Marquette, 1918
Box   20	Gordon, Douglas, 1940-1955
Box   111	Gordon, Douglas, 1952
Box   67	Grand Marsh, Adams, 1912-1960
Box   107	Grand Marsh, Adams, 1949
Box   108	Grandview, Bayfield, 1951-1959
Box   97	Green Valley, Shawano, 1938-1959
Box   100	Green Valley, Shawano, 1948-1959
Box   11	Hatley, Marathon, 1934-1936, 1948-1959
Box   34	Haugen, Barron, 1944-1957
Box   21	Hermansville, Menominee, Michigan (state), 1951-1960
Box   50	Hermansville, Michigan (state), 1954-1962
Box   107	Hermansville, Michigan (state), 1962
Box   112	Hermansville, Michigan (state), 1957-1962
Box   37	Humbird, Clark, 1949-1957
Box   23	Kendall, Monroe, 1952-1957
Box   102	Kendall, Monroe, 1952-1956
Box   25	Lac du Flambeau, Vilas, 1955-1959
Box   111	La Crosse, La Crosse, 1941-1942
Box   4	Lakewood, Oconto, 1948-1953
Box   5	Lakewood, Oconto, 1946-1952
Box   102	Larsen, Winnebago, 1956-1958
Box   11	Lebanon, Dodge, 1947-1958
Box   101	Little Chute, Outagamie, 1951-1958
Box   85	Livingston, Grant, Iowa, 1944-1958
Box   90	Lomira, Dodge, 1947-1961
Box   102	Lomira, Dodge, 1911-1932
Box   48	Long Lake, Florence, 1947-1954
Box   33	Loretta, Sawyer, 1950-1959
Box   3	Luxemburg, Kewaunee, 1955-1960
Box   64	Luxemburg, Kewaunee, 1951-1963
Box   115	Luxemburg, Kewaunee, 1941-1956
Box   41	Lyndhurst, Shawano, 1928-1956
Box   100	Marion, Waupaca, 1952-1959
Box   53	Marshfield, Wood, 1955-1957
Box   107	Marshfield, Wood, 1924-1926
Box   45	Mather, Juneau, 1932-1933
Box   46	Mather, Juneau, 1932-1933 (continued)
Box   72	Mather, Juneau, 1920-1933
Box   78	Mather, Juneau, 1934
Box   103	Mather, Juneau, 1934, 1938
Box   107	Mather, Juneau, 1933
Box   101	Medford, Taylor, 1956-1959
Box   76	Midway, La Crosse, 1942-1958
Box   26	Mondovi, Buffalo, 1949-1955
Box   42	Monico, Oneida, 1944-1962
Box   43	Monico, Oneida, 1948-1959
Box   61	Monico, Oneida, 1946-1950
Box   62	Monico, Oneida, 1944-1952
Box   98	Monico, Oneida, 1944-1953
Box   99	Monico, Oneida, 1946-1959
Box   19	Neillsville, Clark, 1946-1956
Box   113	Neillsville, Clark, 1904-1916
Box   76	Neshkoro, Marquette, 1955-1959
Box   113	Neshkoro, Marquette, 1955-1956
Box   67	New Franken, Brown, 1948-1963
Box   102	New Franken, Brown, 1960
Box   38	New London, Waupaca, 1956-1957
Box   55	Newald, Forest, 1947-1959
Box   34	Norwalk, Monroe, 1952-1958
Box   38	Norwalk, Monroe, 1950-1952
Box   103	Norwalk, Monroe, 1952-1954
Box   65	Oakfield, Fond du Lac, 1951-1958
Box   102	Oakfield, Fond du Lac, 1953-1957
Box   87	Ogema, Price, 1950-1960
Box   112	Ogema, Price, 1956-1960
Box   56	Osseo, Trempealeau, 1944-1953
Box   57	Osseo, Trempealeau, 1944-1955
Box   103	Pelican Lake, Oneida, 1957-1959
Box   3	Pittsville, Wood, 1912-1923, 1940-1957
Box   10	Pittsville, Wood, 1936-1955
Box   18	Pittsville, Wood, 1940-1952
Box   39	Pittsville, Wood, 1935, 1943-1954
Box   40	Pittsville, Wood, 1938-1956
Box   96	Pittsville, Wood, 1941-1954
Box   116	Pittsville, Wood, 1923-1956
Box   113	Plover, Portage, undated
Box   101	Prentice, Price, 1924-1956
Box   26	Radisson, Sawyer, 1957-1959
Box   66	Reedsburg, Sauk, 1955-1957
Box   81	Reedsburg, Sauk, 1956-1958
Box   17	Reedsville, Manitowoc, 1952-1959
Box   25	Ridgeway, Iowa (county), 1958-1959
Box   44	Spring Brook, Washburn, 1944-1957
Box   103	Spring Brook, Washburn, 1914-1954
Box   105	Spring Brook, Washburn, 1955-1957
Box   107	Spring Brook, Washburn, 1924-1927
Box   113	Stevens Point, Portage, 1897-1901
Box   26	Stitzer, Grant, 1950-1956
Box   84	Tigerton, Shawano, 1948-1963
Box   86	Tigerton, Shawano, 1931-1959
Box   118	Tigerton, Shawano, 1951-1963
Box   102	Trempealeau, Trempealeau, 1947-1952
Box   76	Turtle Lake, Barron, Polk, 1956-1959
Box   112	Turtle Lake, Barron, Polk, 1955-1960
Box   1	Valley Junction, Monroe, 1916-1921
Box   2	Valley Junction, Monroe, 1908-1924
Box   4	Valley Junction, Monroe, 1911-1924
Box   5	Valley Junction, Monroe, 1921-1924
Box   7	Valley Junction, Monroe, 1915-1922
Box   35	Valley Junction, Monroe, 1912-1922
Box   36	Valley Junction, Monroe, 1919-1923
Box   74	Valley Junction, Monroe, 1912, 1917-1922
Box   76	Valley Junction, Monroe, 1914-1915
Box   117	Valley Junction, Monroe, 1908-1919
Box   118-119	Valley Junction, Monroe, 1910-1924
Box   120	Valley Junction, Monroe, 1914-1922
Box   121-122	Valley Junction, Monroe, 1910-1924
Box   123-124	Valley Junction, Monroe, 1913-1923
Box   115	Verona, Dane, 1889
Box   70	Wabeno, Forest, 1943-1959
Box   73	Wabeno, Forest, 1946-1957
Box   80	Wales, Waukesha, 1948-1959
Box   51	Warren, Monroe, 1951-1957
Box   16	Warren, Monroe, 1942-1958
Box   106	Wausau, Marathon, 1925-1929, 1948-1955
Box   111	Wausau, Marathon, 1923
Box   102	West Salem, La Crosse, 1947-1952
Box   95	White Lake, Langlade, 1951-1956
Box   9	Wilton, Monroe, 1952-1959
Box   11	Wilton, Monroe, 1952-1957
Box   89	Wilton, Monroe, 1951-1957
Box   9	Winter, Sawyer, 1928, 1953-1959
Box   101	Wisconsin Rapids, Wood, 1933-1955
Box   5	Wittenberg, Shawano, 1950-1959
Box   24	Wittenberg, Shawano, 1938-1963
Box   83	Wittenberg, Shawano, 1947-1952
Box   49	Wonewoc, Juneau, 1946-1950
Box   88	Wonewoc, Juneau, 1946-1956
Box   104	Wonewoc, Juneau, 1942-1958
Box   77	Wonewoc, Juneau, 1945-1952
Box   110 Folder   1	Association of American Railroads, miscellaneous rules and regulations publications, 1939-1947
Box   110 Folder   2	Quiz on Railroad and Railroading, Association of American Railroads, 1946
Box   110 Folder   3	American Railway Association, miscellaneous rules and regulations publications, 1927-1930
	Chicago and North Western Railway Company
Box   110 Folder   4	Accounting procedures, 1961
Box   110 Folder   5	Empty cream can waybills, 1929-1944
Box   110 Folder   6-7	Miscellaneous publications and circulars, 1910-1958
Box   110 Folder   8-9	Time tables, Twin Cities, Wisconsin and Eastern divisions, 1954-1958, 1963-1964
Box   110 Folder   10	Local, interdivision and joint passenger tariffs, 1913-1956
Box   110 Folder   11-12	Miscellaneous railroad correspondence and freight records, 1901-1958
Box   110 Folder   13	Miscellaneous shipping, freight loadings and financial manuals, 1903-1957
Box   110 Folder   14	Railroad Retirement Board, Manual for Unemployment Claims Agents and Countersigning Agents Under the Railroad Unemployment Insurance Act, 1958
Box   109 Folder   1	National Rate Basis Tariff 1-A and Supplements Containing List of Stations in United States and Canada, 1956, 1958
	Official List of Open and Prepay Stations
Box   109 Folder   2-3	Issues 76-78, April 1961-1963
Box   109 Folder   4-6	Issues 71-78, supplements, 1956, 1962-1963
Box   109 Folder   7-8	Railway Age Weekly, July 30, 1962 - October 28, 1963
Box   109 Folder   9-10	Standard Transportation Commodity Code, 1963
Box   109 Folder   11	Traffic World, June 15 - August 31, 1963
Box   109 Folder   12-13	Uniform Freight Classification 5-6, Ratings, Rules and Regulations, 1959, 1961
PH Box   26	One photograph of a fuel company dock in Superior, Wisconsin, and 29 negatives of miscellaneous railroad depots, trains, and employees throughout Wisconsin, including Waupaca, Menominee, and Grand View, circa 1908-1947