Edwin Price Reminiscences
name: label: Creator
content: Taylor, Miriam Price
label: Creator
content: Price, Edwin, 1829-1901 (locomotive engineer)
topic: label: Topic
content: Railroads
label: Topic
content: Railroads -- 19th century
label: Topic
content: Railroad engineers
label: Topic
content: Transportation
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: The collection was donated by Miriam Price Taylor in 1958.
creator: label: Creator
content: Taylor, Miriam Price
label: Creator
content: Price, Edwin, 1829-1901 (locomotive engineer)
setName: label: See more items in
content: Edwin Price Reminiscences
abstract: label: Summary
content: The collection documents handwritten reminiscences of Edwin Price's experiences operating steam engines.
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Edwin Price (1829-1901), born in Overton, Glamorgan, Wales, was a locomotive engineer who lived in Ludlow, Kenton County, Kentucky. He operated trains along the east coast of the United States.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 0.3 Cubic feet (1 box)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1893
custodhist: label: Custodial History
content: The collection was transferred from the Division of Transportation (now the Division of Work and Industry) on  October 18, 1983.
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives Center, National Museum of American History
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NMAH.AC.0070
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Reminiscences
label: Type
content: Journals (accounts)
arrangement: label: Arrangement
content: The collection is arranged into one series.
processinfo: label: Processing Information
content: Procssed by Robert S. Harding, archivist and Mumia Shimaki-Mbasu, February 1986.
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Reminiscences
label: Genre/Form
content: Journals (accounts)
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: These handwritten reminiscences are recollections of Edwin Price's experiences operating steam engines.  The reminiscences document Price's experiences with repair work he performed on the trains he operated as well as recollections of his superiors, the passengers on his trains,  and the local people within the communities though which his locomotives traveled. Some of the companies Price worked for include the Nashville and Chattanooga Railroad, Western and Atlantic, Little Miami Railroad and the Cincinnati and Wilmington Railroad. There is one handwritten volume of two hundred and fifty pages and a two hundred and seventy-five page typescript copy of the original.