Robert Joseph Belletzkie Railroad Collection
Content Description
The collection consists of four items:
1. A set of forty-two photographic prints of Boston and Springfield, Massachusetts, trolleys, ca. 1920s and 1930s
2: loose receipts and shipping notices for materials shipped by rail that were used to construct the Connecticut state Capitol building, 1876-1877
3: A guidebook created by Mr. Belletzkie, "Meriden, Waterbury & Connecticut River RR - West and Cheshire Street Railroad Ghost Rail Tour, Cheshire to Waterbury and Return, April 15, 2018," which consists of photocopies of maps, photographs and newspaper articles
4: Pages from a scrapbook with 251 photographs of structures from Penn Central's Boston Division (two images per page adhered to the page with archival corners), photographs organized alphabetically by location. Compiler of the scrapbook is unknown. Photographs are ca. 1969.
Dates
- 1876-1877, 1920s-1930s, 1969, 2018
Biographical / Historical
Robert Joseph Belletzkie is a railroad historian of Prospect, Connecticut, who shares his findings about the railroad stations in Connecticut on his website Tyler City Station, at http://www.tylercitystation.info/
Extent
1 Linear Feet (Two boxes)
Language of Materials
English
Existence and Location of Copies
Digital reproductions of materials in this collection may also be found in the Archives & Special Collections digital repository
Source
- Belletzkie, Robert Joseph (Donor, Person)
- Title
- Robert Joseph Belletzkie Railroad Collection
- Author
- Archives & Special Collections staff
- Date
- 2019 January
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
Repository Details
Part of the Archives and Special Collections, University of Connecticut Library Repository
University of Connecticut Library
405 Babbidge Road Unit 1205
Storrs Connecticut 06269-1205 USA US
860-486-2524
archives@uconn.edu