Digital Collections
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Explore the Transportation Collection
The Transportation Library's scope encompasses all modes of transportation and includes a broad range of materials from books and reports to material objects and photographs.
Online Exhibits
See all Libraries online exhibits. Topics of Transportation exhibits include Amtrak, O'Hare and African aviation.
Collection Highlights
Annual Report Collection
The Transportation Library’s collection of annual reports documents the financial and operational history of transportation companies around the world from the 1820s to the present. Originally compiled for the companies’ investors, the reports contain a wealth of primary source information for researchers in the history of transportation as well as those researching transportation in the current day.
Environmental Impact Statement Collection
The Transportation Library holds one of the world’s largest collections of environmental impact statements. EISs have been produced, since 1969, on virtually every type of activity, from oil and gas development to scientific research in Antarctica, and from protection of wildlife habitat to construction of light rail lines.
Transportation Library Menu Collection
The Transportation Menu collection comprises over 900 menus from 54 national and international airline carriers, cruise ships and railroad companies, dating from 1929 to the present, with a particular focus on mid-to-late 20th century air transportation.