Identity elements
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Name and location of repository
Level of description
Collection
Title
Timothy Miller Collection
Date(s)
- circa 1880 - 2010 (Creation)
Extent
50,000 aperture cards, 2 books, and 1 box of maps and engineering drawings
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Scope and content
The Timothy Miller Collection includes 50,000 aperture cards containing microform Burlington Northern Railroad Seattle Division engineering drawings of Right-of-Way, Bridges, Station and Yard plats, and Structures, paper station plats, right of way maps and other engineering drawings, and Great Northern Railway Rules and Instruction Books dated December 1, 1929 and May 1, 1959.
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Conditions of access and use elements
Conditions governing access
Please see the Great Northern Railway Historical Society Collection Management Policy for further information.
Physical access
Access requires the use of an aperture card reader held at the Pacific Northwest Railroad Archive, Burien, Washington.
Technical access
Digital images of engineering drawings not displayed in Railroad Archives Online may be consulted by contacting the Great Northern Railway Historical Society Archives Team.
Conditions governing reproduction
Please see the Great Northern Railway Historical Society Reproduction Policy for further information.
Languages of the material
- English
Scripts of the material
- Latin
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Custodial history
Accession W2008-001 (JSRH 220.1), aperture cards, was donated by Timothy Miller to the Great Northern Railway Historical Society and resides in the Great Northern Railway Historical Society. Digital images of the aperture cards were prepared under the joint sponsorship of the Great Northern Railway Historical Society and the Northern Pacific Railway Historical Association; ownership of the digital images is jointly held by the Great Northern Railway Historical Society and the Northern Pacific Railway Historical Association. Accessions W2017- 044 and W2023-094 were donated by Timothy Miller to the Great Northern Railway Historical Society and ownership resides in the Great Northern Historical Society.
Immediate source of acquisition
Donated by Timothy Miller.
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Alternative identifier(s)
Great Northern Railway Historical Society (JSRH)
Description control element
Rules or conventions
Describing Archives - A Content Standard (DACS) 2nd Edition 2013