Guide to the Paul Reeves Bus Driver Collection 1920-1962 MG 1676
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 1920-1962 MG 1676 The New Jersey Historical Society 52 Park Place Newark, New Jersey 07102 Contact: NJHS Library (973) 596-8500 x249 library@jerseyhistory.org https://www.jerseyhistory.org © 2006 All rights reserved. The New Jersey Historical Society, Publisher Processed by Evan Panayi. Finding aid encoded by Julia Telonidis. August 2006. Production of the EAD 2002 version of this finding aid was made possible by a grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.Finding aid written in English. Historical Note:Paul Reeves was a bus driver for the Somerset Bus Company and Suburban Transit Corporation from the 1920s to the early 1960s. During these years he drove many different bus routes, which are reflected in the notations in his notebooks. He lived in Franklin Park, Milltown, New Brunswick, and Somerset, New Jersey. Return to the Table of Contents Scope and Content NoteThe collection includes bus driver’s licenses; bus tickets; blank lost and found tags; account book doctor’s certificate; member slips in the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen; earning deduction receipts; notes on bus connections; identification cards; notebooks concerning transit lines and his job; and 10 diaries. The diaries detail which routes he drove, special passenger notes, and personal information. A March 1921 entry details the death of his father and Sept. 1921 mentions him hitting an automobile in South Amboy. Return to the Table of Contents Return to the Table of Contents Administrative InformationPreferred CitationThis collection should be cited as: Manuscript Group 1676, Paul Reeves Bus Driver Collection, The New Jersey Historical Society. Acquisition InformationPurchase, 2004. Return to the Table of Contents Container List
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