1922 Atlantic City Railroad Voucher Ocean City NJ Accounting A J County
$ 6.86
Description
1922 Atlantic City Railroad Voucher Ocean City NJ Accounting A J County. This is an original 1922 financial voucher folder from the Atlantic City and Shore Railroad Company, a complete accounting packet documenting a specific inter-company payment for shared infrastructure maintenance. The primary voucher cover, dated July 13, 1922, and stamped PAID AUG 18 1922, authorizes a payment of $77.54 to the Atlantic City Railroad Company. The folder's internal components provide a detailed audit trail, including the original itemized bill from the Atlantic City Railroad Co., dated July 17, 1922, which details a 25% cost-sharing proportion for the expense of interlocking signal protection at the Eighth Street and Haven Avenue crossing in Ocean City, Cape May County, New Jersey, during June of that year. The breakdown specifies charges for three levermen, oil and supplies, and signal maintenance, totaling $70.94. A separate, earlier charge of $6.60, documented by an attached invoice, was for labor assisting with the replacement of crossing frogs at the same Ocean City junction. The document is a significant piece of railroadiana and business ephemera, offering a granular view of early 20th-century railway accounting practices, intercorporate agreements, and localized infrastructure upkeep. The paperwork bears multiple official purple ink stamps tracking its journey through corporate bureaucracy-RECEIVED, APPROVED, and PAID-along with manuscript annotations directing charges to specific ledger accounts like Junction Signal & Int. App. and Track & Roadway Labor. Key signatures include those of A. J. County, a notable railroad executive with the Reading system (parent company of the Atlantic City Railroad), and A. J. Purinton, General Superintendent of the Atlantic City and Shore Railroad. The complete voucher folder, with its attached supporting invoice and internal ledger sheet, exemplifies the era's manual bookkeeping systems and provides concrete geographic and operational specificity to the history of South Jersey's intricate shore railroad network, particularly the coordination required at shared interlocking plants. The item is in good, unaltered condition showing expected age toning, clear folds, and legible stamps and typing.
