Annual Report

Annual Report
Title Annual Report PDF eBook
Author Pennsylvania Railroad
Publisher
Pages 644
Release 1868
Genre
ISBN

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Corporation Annual Reports to Shareholders

Corporation Annual Reports to Shareholders
Title Corporation Annual Reports to Shareholders PDF eBook
Author
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Pages 860
Release 1866
Genre Corporations
ISBN

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The Pennsylvania Railroad, Volume 1

The Pennsylvania Railroad, Volume 1
Title The Pennsylvania Railroad, Volume 1 PDF eBook
Author Albert J. Churella
Publisher University of Pennsylvania Press
Pages 970
Release 2012-10-29
Genre History
ISBN 0812207629

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"Do not think of the Pennsylvania Railroad as a business enterprise," Forbes magazine informed its readers in May 1936. "Think of it as a nation." At the end of the nineteenth century, the Pennsylvania Railroad was the largest privately owned business corporation in the world. In 1914, the PRR employed more than two hundred thousand people—more than double the number of soldiers in the United States Army. As the self-proclaimed "Standard Railroad of the World," this colossal corporate body underwrote American industrial expansion and shaped the economic, political, and social environment of the United States. In turn, the PRR was fundamentally shaped by the American landscape, adapting to geography as well as shifts in competitive economics and public policy. Albert J. Churella's masterful account, certain to become the authoritative history of the Pennsylvania Railroad, illuminates broad themes in American history, from the development of managerial practices and labor relations to the relationship between business and government to advances in technology and transportation. Churella situates exhaustive archival research on the Pennsylvania Railroad within the social, economic, and technological changes of nineteenth- and twentieth-century America, chronicling the epic history of the PRR intertwined with that of a developing nation. This first volume opens with the development of the Main Line of Public Works, devised by Pennsylvanians in the 1820s to compete with the Erie Canal. Though a public rather than a private enterprise, the Main Line foreshadowed the establishment of the Pennsylvania Railroad in 1846. Over the next decades, as the nation weathered the Civil War, industrial expansion, and labor unrest, the PRR expanded despite competition with rival railroads and disputes with such figures as Andrew Carnegie and John D. Rockefeller. The dawn of the twentieth century brought a measure of stability to the railroad industry, enabling the creation of such architectural monuments as Pennsylvania Station in New York City. The volume closes at the threshold of American involvement in World War I, as the strategies that PRR executives had perfected in previous decades proved less effective at guiding the company through increasingly tumultuous economic and political waters.

The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography

The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography
Title The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography PDF eBook
Author
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Pages 532
Release 1957
Genre Pennsylvania
ISBN

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Annual Report for the Year ... of the Board of Directors of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company to the Stockholders

Annual Report for the Year ... of the Board of Directors of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company to the Stockholders
Title Annual Report for the Year ... of the Board of Directors of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company to the Stockholders PDF eBook
Author Pennsylvania Railroad
Publisher
Pages 686
Release 1847
Genre
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Railroad Gazette

Railroad Gazette
Title Railroad Gazette PDF eBook
Author
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Pages 554
Release 1872
Genre Railroads
ISBN

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Catalogue of the Hopkins Railway Library

Catalogue of the Hopkins Railway Library
Title Catalogue of the Hopkins Railway Library PDF eBook
Author Stanford University. Libraries
Publisher
Pages 256
Release 1895
Genre Railroads
ISBN

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