Collection search - James Carleton Brown fonds [textual records, architectural drawings]

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James Carleton Brown fonds [textual records, architectural drawings]

Hierarchical level:

Accession

Date:

1888-1939.

Reference:

1998-00745-6

BAN no.:

1998-00745-6

Type of material:

Textual material, Architectural and technical drawings

Found in:

Archives / Collections and Fonds

Item ID number:

138994

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Date(s):

1888-1939.

Place of creation:

No place, unknown, or undetermined

Extent:

.15 m.
.05 m.

Language of material:

English

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Accession consists of Brown's reports on the physical state of the Chemin de Fer Ottoman d'Anatolie (CFOA), reports on a terrorist attack on a railway bridge and its repair. Annual reports on repairs, upgrading and costs. Reports on the larger railway situation in Turkey and Syria, 1919-1922. Typed copy of the contract for construction of the CFOA, 1888. Comparative table of expenditures which includes a German document of 1918. Regulations for railway passes, pensions, accounting and pay, 1913-1921. Reports on bridges, some in French, with sketches, drawings, maps etc. Reports on re-enforcement/ rebuilding of metal truss bridges, 1918-1921. Fifteen blueprints for a 110 m wooden Howe truss to replace a destroyed bridge, 1921. Blueprints for a pile driver, a sailing cutter, elevations of the CFOA rail line, n.d., 1921. Also Brown's receipts, deposits, withdrawals, etc. with the National Bank of Turkey, five published standards for rails, rolled steel sections and track hardware, and a photo of Brown by W.H. Edwards of St. Stephen NB. Brown's diary of trip to Australia, New Zealand, China and Japan to evaluate CNR shipping agents in various ports and determine how to increase Canadian exports, May 1923 - Jan. 1924 (101 pages). Diary of a similar trip to the British West Indies, though some of it is typed, May - Sept. 1924 (73 pp.). A copy of his CNR report derived from his diary plus some press clippings, 1924-25, 1939 (118 pp.)

Custodial history:

The history of these records before purchase is unknown.

Original extent note:

0.2 m.

Source:

Private
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