Fred Abele Transportation History Collection
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Fred B. Abele Transportation History Collections, 1905-1985
The Fred Abele Collection
A Virtual Behind-the-Scenes Tour
What is in the Fred Abele Transportation History Collection?
Examples of items in the collection
A Look at the Paper-based Contents
Photographs of trains
Photographs
Negatives
Slides
Tickets
Postcards
Postcard with special cancellation
Timetables
Architectural blueprints
Page from book of blueprints
Stock certificates
Illustration drawn by Fred Abele
Research notes
Artifacts (Three-dimensional Items)
Bus/trolley sign
Bus sign
Destination and car stop signs
Calendars
Signal flags and tools
Close up of cover of tool box
Making a Manuscripts Collection User Friendly
Making a manuscripts collection user-friendly
Arrival of the collection
Creating an accession file record
Reboxing items
Reboxed scrapbooks
Looking at the items in the collection more closely
Creating a list of the contents in each box
Typing up the lists so they are easier to read
Manuals used to create an online catalog record
Catalog record online
Appraisers evaluate the collection
Making notes during the appraisal
Looking at the contents of the scrapbooks more closely
Labeling scrapbooks
Scrapbooks with descriptive notes inserted
Close-up of descriptive notes in scrapbooks
Relabeling scrapbook boxes
Sorting and rehousing items from other boxes
Taking a closer look at photographs and netatives
Removing photographs from unsafe housing
Copying information from old envelope to new folder
Studying lists found in envelopes of photographs
Rehousing negatives
Matching negatives to photographs
Photo album with notes
Removing pages of album from archivally unsafe folders ...
... and putting them in archivally safe folders
Copying information from the old binders to the new folders
Discarding archivally unsafe binders, boxes and envelopes
Over several months ...
Since February 2002, much of the collection has been sorted, arranged and rehoused ...
Some of the material has been put in folders and the folders ...
... are labeled. The information on each folder eventually will become part of the box-and-folder list.
Boxes of large (folio size) items have preliminary labels.
Examples of large (folio size) items in their new lignin-free containers.
Examples of flyers in the collection.
The Abele collection after much sorting and arranging of items.
View the catalog record for Transportation History Collection.