Western and Atlantic Railroad - General Freight Agent - Way-Bills and Freight Manifests
Scope and Contents
This series consists of bound records of way-bills and unbound manifests of freight way-bills for freight received from stations on the Western & Atlantic and connecting railroads and forwarded from or to Atlanta and stations on the W&A and beyond. The bound way-bills include: number of the way-bill, date of shipment (original date), date of bill (stamp date), point of origin, destination, receipt of goods by the W&A conductor, date of receipt, and remarks. The manifests of freight way-bills, which include consolidated reports, have slightly different formats but generally show: date of period ending, date of stamp, number list, whether or not pre-paid, point of shipment, destination, total costs to W&A, total costs to other railroads, additional expenses, recapitulation at bottom of page, and agent's signature. These records are both daily and weekly forms and include Forms #6, #7, #8 and #11. Included also is a single "Copy of Abstract Ledger of Freight Way-Bills" for April, 1870 located in the front of Unit 4. The records of this series were created to help control the exchange of freight between the W&A and other railroads.
Dates
- Created: 1869
Creator
- Western & Atlantic Railroad (Organization)
Conditions Governing Access
Unrestricted
Extent
3.00 Cubic Feet
Language of Materials
English
Arrangement Note
The bound volumes are arranged chronologically by two distinct dates: a heading date and a column date which were generally several months apart. However, the arrangement of the volumes goes from the heading date to the column date. The unbound freight way-bills are arranged first numerically by form number, then alphabetically by station name on the W&A and thereunder chronologically by date of manifest.
- Title
- Western and Atlantic Railroad - General Freight Agent - Way-Bills and Freight Manifests
- Author
- Georgia Archives
- Description rules
- Local
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
Repository Details
Part of the Georgia Archives Repository
5800 Jonesboro Rd
Morrow GA 30260 United States