President's Office
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company
label: Collection Author
content: Garrett, John W. (John Work), 1820-1884
label: Collection Author
content: Latrobe, Benj. H. (Benjamin Henry), 1807-1878
setName: label: See more items in
content: Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Records
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1826-1880
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives Center, National Museum of American History
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NMAH.AC.1086, Series 3
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Series 3, President's Office, 1826-1880, consists primarily of correspondence created in the President's Office of the B&O Railroad.  The documentation was originally tri-folded and arranged by serial and subject numbers.  A stamp bearing the B&O Railroad Company, the serial number and the subject number can be found on each document. For example, materials bearing the subject 6499 all relate to a B&O Railroad property in Harpers Ferry, West Virginia. Also included is the correspondence of Benjamin Henry Latrobe, II (1806-1878) an American civil engineer, best known for his railway bridges and as assistant engineer for the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, and John Work Garrett (1820–1884) president of the B&O railroad. The materials are arranged by the subject number.