Summary Information

Title: Thomas H. Ploss Research Files
Inclusive Dates: 1959, 1967-1982

Creator:

• Ploss, Thomas H.

Call Number: M86-606; Audio 1485A

Quantity: 5.2 c.f. (5 record center cartons and 1 archives box) and 7 tape recordings

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:

Research material gathered by Thomas Ploss of Chicago, Illinois, for his book The Nation Pays Again, an unfavorable record of the dissolution of his former employer, the Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul, and Pacific Railroad (The Milwaukee Road). Files include reports to stockholders, Interstate Commerce Commission briefs and exhibits, Securities and Exchange Commission hearing transcripts and audio recordings, and internal records of the Burlington Northern Railroad, whom Ploss considered an antagonist. There are also some notes and correspondence related to drafts of the book and the personalities involved in the case.

Language: English

URL to cite for this finding aid: http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/wiarchives.uw-whs-m86606

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