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Finding Aid for the Herbert E. Copeland Railroadiana Collection, 1903-1968


MS-0847

University of Tennessee Special Collections Library, Knoxville, TN


Encoded by: Elizabeth Dunham, August 13, 2007.

Summary Information
Title: Herbert E. Copeland Railroadiana Collection

Date/Date Range :   1903-1968

Extent: 9.0 linear feet

Abstract:
This collection houses a large assemblage of American locomotive photographs, railroad timetables, newspaper clippings, magazines, books, and such other pieces of railroadiana as engineer's coveralls, pieces of track, oil cans, spikes, pencils, and a lapel pin.

Call number: MS-0847

Repository: University of Tennessee Special Collections Library, Knoxville, TN

Access and Use
Aquisition Information:
Mrs. Lynn Copeland donated these papers in April of 1968 in memory of Herbert E. Copeland's father, Edward Scott Copeland, who worked as a railroad engineer.
Access Restrictions:
Collection is open for research.
Copyright:
The copyright interests in this collection remain with the creator. For more information, contact the Special Collections Library.
Preferred Citation:
[Identification of Item], Herbert E. Copeland Railroadiana Collection, MS-0847. University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Special Collections Library.

Arrangement

Collection consists of six boxes divided into three series:

  1. Series I: Photographs, Negatives, Clippings, and Scrapbooks
  2. Series II: Railroad Timetables
  3. Series III: Miscellaneous

Biography / History

Herbert Earl Copeland was born on March 7, 1888 in Knoxville, Tennessee. He attended the University of Tennessee between 1907 and 1913, graduating with a B.S. in Mining Engineering and a B.S. in Metallurgical Engineering on May 28, 1913. He worked as a plant superintendent for the US Stove Company in South Pittsburg, Tennessee for many years. He died on January 9, 1968 in South Pittsburg.

Copeland married Lynn Russell (1900-1973) on November 28, 1925, and the couple's only child, Herbert Earl Copeland Jr., was born on September 12, 1926.


Collection Scope and Content Note

This collection houses a large assemblage of American locomotive photographs, railroad timetables, newspaper clippings, magazines, books, and such other pieces of railroadiana as engineer's coveralls, pieces of track, oil cans, spikes, pencils, and a lapel pin. The approximately 500 unusual books that were initially a part of this collection have been removed and cataloged into the Rare Books collection.

Subject Terms

  • Copeland, Herbert E.
  • Railroads -- United States.
  • Railroads -- Trains -- Pictorial works.
Contents List
   

Series I: Photographs, Negatives, Clippings, and Scrapbooks
Box   1     Folder   1    
Photographs of various locomotives. (110)
Box   1     Folder   2    
Photographs of various locomotives. (8)
Box   1     Folder   3    
Photographs of various locomotives. (139)
Box   1     Folder   4    
Photographs of various locomotives. (92)
Box   1     Folder   5    
Photographs of various locomotives. (133)
Box   1     Folder   6    
Photographs of various locomotives. (71)
Box   1     Folder   7    
Photographs of various locomotives. (106)
Box   1     Folder   8    
Photographs of various locomotives. (44)
Box   1     Folder   9    
Photographs of various locomotives. (105)
Box   1     Folder   10    
Photographs of various locomotives. (80)
Box   1     Folder   11    
Photographs of various locomotives. (105)
Box   1     Folder   12    
Photographs of various locomotives. (44)
Box   1     Folder   13    
A disintegrating photograph of the different parts of a locomotive engine. (1)
Box   2      
Eight scrapbooks of locomotive photographs

Box   3      
Eight scrapbooks of locomotive photographs and one scrapbook of newspaper clippings

Box   4     Folder   1    
Loose pages from photographic scrapbooks. (60)
Box   4     Folder   2    
Photographs of various locomotives. (51)
Box   4     Folder   3    
Photographs of various locomotives. (100)
Box   4     Folder   4    
Photographs of various locomotives. (55)
Box   4     Folder   5    
A box of photographs and some negatives. (14)
Box   4     Folder   6    
A small box over to the left hand side of the box contains a glass negative. (1)
Box   4     Folder   7    
Negatives. (124)
Box   4     Folder   8    
Negatives. (60)
Box   4     Folder   9    
Negatives. (112)
Box   4     Folder   10    
Negatives. (11)
Box   4     Folder   11    
Negatives. (298)
Box   4     Folder   12    
Negatives. (28)
Box   4     Folder   13    
Newspaper clippings.
Box   4     Folder   14    
Various newspapers ( "Gatlinburg Press" 7/25/1968, The Mountain Visitor 8/4/1968 and 7/7-8/1968, and the Chattanooga News-Free Press 7/28/1968), 1968 July 7-1968 July 28
Box   4     Folder   15    
Loose pages from the scrapbook of newspaper clippings.
   

Series II: Railroad Timetables, 1911-1953
Box   5     Folder   1    
Railroad Timetables, 1913 February-1947 September 28

Scope Note:
  1. Atlantic Coast Line Railroad, February 1913
  2. Atlantic Coast Line Railroad, September 28, 1947
Box   5     Folder   2    
Railroad Timetables, 1920 June 13-1945 February 18

Scope Note:
  1. Baltimore & Ohio Railroad, June 13, 1920
  2. Baltimore & Ohio Railroad, January 17, 1943
  3. Baltimore & Ohio Railroad, February 18, 1945
  4. Burlington Route, April 1914
  5. Burlington Route, July 11, 1943
Box   5     Folder   3    
Railroad Timetables, 1924 August 10-1944 June 11

Scope Note:
  1. Chesapeake & Ohio Lines, April 27, 1941
  2. Chesapeake & Ohio Lines, August 18, 1946
  3. Chesapeake & Ohio Lines, December 21, 1947
  4. Chicago & Eastern Illinois Railroad, December 17, 1941
  5. Chicago & Northwestern Line, August 10, 1924
  6. Chicago & Northwestern Line, June 11, 1944
Box   5     Folder   4    
Railroad Timetables, 1915 September 1

Scope Note:
  1. Denver and Salt Lake Railroad, September 1, 1915
  2. Denver and Salt Lake Railroad, undated
Box   5     Folder   5    
Railroad Timetables, 1924 August 1-1943 September 15

Scope Note:
  1. Great Northern Time Table, August 1, 1924
  2. Great Northern Time Table, September 15, 1943
  3. Great Northern Time Table, undated
Box   5     Folder   6    
Railroad Timetables, 1942 March-1945 December

Scope Note:
  1. Illinois Central, March 1942
  2. Illinois Central, December 1945
Box   5     Folder   7    
Railroad Timetables, 1935 January 3-1946 November 17

Scope Note:
  1. Louisville & Nashville Railroad, January 3, 1935
  2. Louisville & Nashville Railroad, January 19, 1941
  3. Louisville & Nashville Railroad, November 14, 1943
  4. Louisville & Nashville Railroad, June 30, 1946
  5. Louisville & Nashville Railroad, November 17, 1946
Box   5     Folder   8    
Railroad Timetables, 1913 September 1-1943 August 29

Scope Note:
  1. Missouri Pacific Lines, August 29, 1943
  2. Missouri, Kansas & Texas Railroad, September 1, 1913
  3. Missouri, Kansas & Texas Railroad, April 5, 1942
Box   5     Folder   9    
Railroad Timetables, 1913 July-1947 December 3

Scope Note:
  1. Nashville, Chattanooga & St. Louis Railway, September 5, 1913
  2. Nashville, Chattanooga & St. Louis Railway, February 2, 1914
  3. Nashville, Chattanooga & St. Louis Railway, October 1934
  4. Nashville, Chattanooga & St. Louis Railway, May 1937
  5. Nashville, Chattanooga & St. Louis Railway, December 19, 1941
  6. Nashville, Chattanooga & St. Louis Railway, December 3, 1947
  7. New York Central, September 28, 1924
  8. New York Central, June 25, 1939
  9. New York Central, November 17, 1940
  10. New York Central, September 28, 1941
  11. New York Central, December 14, 1941
  12. New York Central, April 27, 1941
  13. New York Central, September 26, 1943
  14. New York Central, November 14, 1943 (2)
  15. New York Central, March 1, 1945
  16. Norfolk & Western Railway, December 12, 1937
  17. Norfolk & Western Railway, March 1, 1941
  18. Norfolk & Western Railway, December 5, 1943
  19. Norfolk & Western Railway, September 29, 1946
  20. Norfolk & Western Railway, September 28, 1947
  21. Northern Pacific, July 1913
  22. Northern Pacific, March 1914
  23. Northern Pacific, August 1924
Box   5     Folder   10    
Railroad Timetables, 1941 January 26-1946 December 1

Scope Note:
  1. Pennsylvania Railroad, January 26, 1941
  2. Pennsylvania Railroad, March 25, 1945
  3. Pennsylvania Railroad, October 27, 1946
  4. Pennsylvania Railroad, December 1, 1946
Box   5     Folder   11    
Railroad Timetables, 1911 December-1914 July

Scope Note:
  1. Queen & Crescent Route, December 1911
  2. Queen & Crescent Route, July 1914
Box   5     Folder   12    
Railroad Timetables, 1915 July 11-1945 November 11

Scope Note:
  1. Rock Island Line, July 11, 1915
  2. Rock Island Line, October 1933
  3. Rock Island Line, September 1943
  4. Rock Island Line, November 11, 1945
  5. Two maps
Box   5     Folder   13    
Railroad Timetables, 1912 April-1946 August 4

Scope Note:
  1. Santa Fe, July 20, 1913
  2. Southern Pacific, April 1912
  3. Southern Pacific, August 1924
  4. Southern Pacific, August 4, 1946
  5. Map
Box   5     Folder   14    
Railroad Timetables, 1919 September 10-1953 May 17

Scope Note:
  1. Southern Railroad Lines, September 10, 1919
  2. Southern Railroad Lines, June 1, 1933
  3. Southern Railroad Lines, September 1936
  4. Southern Railroad Lines, June 1939
  5. Southern Railroad Lines, January 1941
  6. Southern Railroad Lines, February 1941
  7. Southern Railroad Lines, October 1, 1946
  8. Southern Railroad Lines, March 16, 1947
  9. Southern Railroad Lines, April 1948
  10. Southern Railroad Lines, May 17, 1953
Box   5     Folder   15    
Railroad Timetables, 1917 January-1943 June 20

Scope Note:
  1. Union Pacific System, August 3, 1924
  2. Union Pacific System, September 14, 1939
  3. Wabash, January-February 1917
  4. Wabash, June 20, 1943
Box   5     Folder   16    
Railroad Timetables, 1913 August-1947 September 29

Scope Note:
  1. Bangor & Aroostook Railroad, September 29, 1947
  2. Burlington Route, April 9, 1944
  3. Canadian Railway, June 24, 1934
  4. Canadian Pacific Railway, August 1, 1924
  5. Chicago Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway, September-October 1924
  6. Cincinnati & Lake Erie Bus System, December 8, 1940
  7. Clinchfield Route, November 10, 1946
  8. Cotton Belt Route, March 22, 1942
  9. Delaware & Hudson, February 9, 1942
  10. Erie Railroad, September 26, 1943
  11. Frisco Lines, August 1913
  12. The Gray Line, undated
  13. Gulf Mobile & Ohio Railroad, June 1, 1942
Box   5     Folder   17    
Railroad Timetables, 1920 May 23-1948 April 25

Scope Note:
  1. Tersey Central Railroad, May 23, 1943
  2. Kansas City Southern Lines, September 1, 1946
  3. Lackawanna Railroad, December 5, 1943
  4. Lehigh Valley Railroad, November 30, 1941
  5. Milwaukee Road, July 30, 1944
  6. New York, Baltimore, Washington, May 23, 1920
  7. New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad, December 14, 1941
  8. Nickel Plate Road, October, November-December 1944
  9. Pennsylvania Greyhound, December 1, 1941
  10. Pennsylvania System, August 26, 1920
  11. Pere Marquette, February 22, 1942
  12. Pike's Peak Railway, undated
  13. Reading System, January 10, 1943
  14. Richmond, Fredericksburg & Potomac Railroad, April 25, 1948
  15. Rutland, September 24, 1939
  16. Seaboard Air Line Railroad, April 25, 1948
  17. South Shore Line, September 7, 1943
  18. Springfield Line, November 14, 1943
  19. Tennessee Central Railway, July 1946
  20. Texas & Pacific Railway, September 25, 1943
   

Series III: Miscellaneous, 1903-1968
Box   6     Folder   1    
Souvenir Southern Railroad, Knoxville Division, 1903
Box   6     Folder   2    
Railway Vehicles of the 20th Century
Box   6     Folder   3    
Manual for Engineers published by University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Box   6     Folder   4    
Ad for railroading book
Box   6     Folder   5    
Americana Catalogue no. 39
Box   6     Folder   6    
Annis' Ready Reference For Enginemen
Box   6     Folder   7    
Ties, Southern Railway System Magazine, 1957 March
Box   6     Folder   8    
Railway & Locomotive Historical Society, 1967 February 1
Box   6     Folder   9    
Article on a highway being built from a railroad track
Box   6     Folder   10    
American Railway Association Code of Rules, 1929 January 1
Box   6     Folder   11    
Quiz on Railroads & Railroading (3 copies)
Box   6     Folder   12    
Midwest Railroader & Roster Journal, 1967 September-1967 December
Box   6     Folder   13    
Southern News Bulletin, 1929 December
Box   6     Folder   14    
Texas & Oklahoma Official Railway & Hotel Guide, 1912 June
Box   6     Folder   15    
Library Development Report (mentions Copeland), 1967-1968
Box   6     Folder   16    
Pamphlet of various types of cars in a train
Box   6     Folder   17    
Pamphlet of locomotives that made history
Box   6     Folder   18    
The Railroad (Santa Fe System)
Box   6     Folder   19    
80 Years of Transportation Progress, A History of the St. Louis Southwestern Railway
Box   6     Folder   20    
Locomotive Advertising In America 1850-1900
Box   6     Folder   21    
Mining Engineering & Geology at University of Tennessee, 1907 July
Box   6     Folder   22    
University of Tennessee Register, 1912-1913
Box   6     Folder   23    
Kalendar, vol 1, Park City High School, Park City, TN, 1909
Box   6     Folder   24    
Notebook of ordered photographs
Box   6     Folder   25    
Central Manufacturing District Magazine
Box   6     Folder   26    
Six railroad notebooks
Box   6     Folder   27    
Various papers from people Copeland has requested information about railroads from and information about photographs Copeland ordered. (George M. Sittig, May 24, 1947-November 7, 1957 and W. H. Thrall, Jr. June 1, 1939-April 8, 1947), 1939 June 1-1957 November 7
Box   6     Folder   28    
The papers of the promotion of C. A. Trainum to the position of locomotive engineer. A envelope of sketches which have been colored and tourist flyers
Box   6     Folder   29    
Burchfield file (xerox copy) of agents, agent-operators, and operators assigned regularly on Knoxville Division
Box   6     Folder   30    
Maps (road maps) of Cripple Creek, Mississippi, Arkansas, and Louisiana (1941, three copies), Ohio, Kentucky and Tennessee, Indiana, Texas (1934), and Michigan. There are also two Rand McNally maps of the British and French Front
Box   6     Folder   31    
Miscellaneous articles, engineer's coveralls, three pieces of initialed rail track, four railroad spikes, envelope of railway society membership cards, small, black notebook listing Southern Railway engineers and firemen 1874-1940, ribbon indicating number of Tennessee men in the Union Army, Southern Railway ash tray, lapel pin, and buttons, two railroad pencils, a N & W RY key, and two oil cans