Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad Company Records - Advertising Department, 1850s-1960s

Deposit of the Chicago, Burlington, and Quincy Company, 1943, with subsequent additions, 1948-onward. Ownership transferred to Newberry Library by Burlington Northern Company, 1975.

The Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad Company Records are open for research in the Special Collections Reading Room; 1 box at a time (Priority III).

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Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad Company Records, The Newberry Library, Chicago.

Martha Briggs, Alison Hinderliter, Lisa Janssen, Kelly Kress, Emma Martin, Andrew Olofsson, and Pamela Olson, 2014.

The CB&Q’s Advertising Department worked in close connection with its General Passenger Traffic Department in creating public timetables and other promotional printed material to boost ridership on the trains. The department was also the liaison with the press, creating press releases and fielding requests for information about the railroad and its history.

Materials include administrative files, advertising copy, press kits, budgets, and subject files relating to the promotion of the railroad. There are also advertisements for the railroad produced by the department, and news clippings about the CB&Q. The Department was also responsible for maintaining the scrapbooks of promotional material (see CB&Q 32.81, Boxes 93-100) and clippings (see CB&Q 32.81, boxes 100-102), the printed ephemera (see CB&Q 32.9), and the photograph albums (see CB&Q A-5-3).

Forms part of the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad Company Records.

This finding aid describes additions to the original deposit of records inventoried in the Guide to the Burlington Archives in the Newberry Library, 1851-1901 (Chicago: Newberry Library, 1949).

Papers are organized in the following series:

Title Box Series A-2-1: Administrative Files, 1890s-1960s Boxes 1-3; +1 Series A-2-2: Clippings, 1850s-1960s Box 4; +1-2

• NamesChicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad Company.
• Subject
  • Advertising -- Railroads -- United States
  • Burlington Zephyr (Express train)
  • Chicago
  • Manuscripts, American -- Illinois -- Chicago
  • Railroad travel -- West (U.S.)
  • Railroads
  • Tourism -- West (U.S.)