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Globe Express Company : [collection] ; 1891-1925 ; (bulk 1891-1916).

Title: Globe Express Company : [collection] ; 1891-1925 ; (bulk 1891-1916).

ArchivalResource: linear ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/28413969 View

Fred D. Fellow railroad collection, 1903-1955

Title: Fred D. Fellow railroad collection 1903-1955

ArchivalResource: 1 folder; (0.2 linear ft.)

http://findingaid.lib.byu.edu/viewItem/MSS%20SC%2042 View

Wilmington Trust Company. Trust Dept. Records, 1909-1959 (bulk 1931-1954).

Title: Records, 1909-1959 (bulk 1931-1954).

The records contain some information on the workings of the Trust Dept., but are more useful for the information they contain on the individual companies in which the department invested.

ArchivalResource: 46 linear ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122370789 View

Norris, Samuel J., 1874-. Samuel J. Norris autobiography, [ca. 1972].

Title: Samuel J. Norris autobiography, [ca. 1972].

Reminiscences of childhood in Salt Lake City, and experiences as locating engineer, surveying for the Western Pacific Railroad, mainly out from Ogden, Utah and in the Feather River area in California.

ArchivalResource: 86 leaves (1 portfolio).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/214932484 View

Seidenberg, Jacob. Arbitration case files, 1961-1983.

Title: Seidenberg, Jacob. Arbitration case files, 1961-1983.

Arbitration case files, 1961-1983.

ArchivalResource:

http://rmc.library.cornell.edu/EAD/xml/dlxs/KCL05217.xml View

Hinckley, Frank, 1838-1890. Papers of Frank Hinckley, 1863-1898.

Title: Papers of Frank Hinckley, 1863-1898.

The collection consists of letters, diaries (29 volumes), two account books, and documents related to the life and professional activities of Frank Hinckley. Subject matter includes: life in San Francisco (1863-66), working for the Western Pacific Railroad Company as a surveyor (1863-90), and ranch life in both Hayward and Redlands, California. There are also some materials by additional Hinckley family members in the collection.

ArchivalResource: 221 pieces.3 boxes.2 volumes.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/86129632 View

H.H. Copeland and Son. [Copeland railroad survey collection].

Title: [Copeland railroad survey collection]. [1918-1958]

ArchivalResource: ca. 504 pieces (maps with accompanying text) : printed items ; in 2 boxes 27 x 13 x 40 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/729541089 View

Barry, John,. John Barry streetcar and bus memorabilia.

Title: John Barry streetcar and bus memorabilia.

ArchivalResource: 4 manuscript boxes ; 15 3/8 x 12 x 3 1/8 in.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/299176348 View

Railroadiana (Western U.S.A), Part 1. Collection, 1860-1879.

Title: Railroadiana (Western U.S.A), Part 1. Collection, 1860-1879.

Railroadiana (Western U.S.A), Part 1 is composed mainly of material concerning court cases related to the Central Pacific, Southern Pacific, California Pacific, California Pacific Extension, Northern, and Western Pacific railroad companies. Most of the material in the collection relates to Central Pacific Railroad Company v. Alfred Andrew Cohen (1876), as the transcript of the case is contained in 14 volumes.

ArchivalResource: 41 pieces.3 boxes.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122386425 View

Hardy, Grahame H. Grahame Hardy Collection, 1849-1909.

Title: Grahame Hardy Collection, 1849-1909.

The collection was assembled by author and collector Grahame H. Hardy. The documents and manuscripts demonstrate the range of legal, administrative, municipal, and real estate-related transactions initiated by railroad and mining interests, businessmen, and municipalities in the San Francisco Bay area, Northern California, and western Nevada. Included in this series are legal proceedings, title deeds, mining reports and claims. Correspondence includes business and personal letters to and from Northern California lawyers, railroad and mining entrepreneurs in California and Nevada, and parties involved in the construction of the Nicaragua Canal. Included in this series are letters pertaining to the case of Daniel Sill, a San Francisco-based blacksmith and the trial of A.J. Jackson, an African American tried and acquitted in Marysville, California. Lastly, ephemera include four items: a Mission Homestead Association certificate of stock; one check payable to Jack H. Haverly, a promoter of minstrel shows, from theater producers and brothers, Gustave Frohman and Charles Frohman; the baptism certificate of Everett Loftus Saxondale Kenna; and an undated glossary of mining terms. Prominent persons and organizations featured in the collection include: California Academy of Sciences, founded in 1853 as the one of the first scientific academies west of the Atlantic seaboard; Central Pacific Railroad Company, established in 1861 and financed in part by Leland Stanford and Collis P. Huntington, who are also mentioned in the collection; William Heath Davis (1822-1909), San Francisco merchant and author, spouse of Maria de Jesús Estudillo, who played a key role in the founding of the California cities of Oakland and San Diego; John Brooks Felton (1827-1877), San Francisco Bay Area lawyer and judge, as well as one-time mayor of Oakland, California; Joseph Pendleton Hoge (1810-1891), former U.S. Representative of Illinois and later lawyer and judge of the San Francisco Superior Court; and M.G. Upton, former official reporter of the California Assembly and author of the urban planning critique, "The Plan of San Francisco" (1869).a

ArchivalResource: 85 items.4 boxes.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/496158280 View

H. H. Copeland Maps and Tables, 1924-1956

Title: H. H. Copeland Maps and Tables 1924-1956

The Transportation Library's collection of H. H. Copeland and Son's maps consist of 74 maps and tables on U. S. railways dating from the early 1930's to the mid 1950's. The Copeland maps consist of traffic density maps and tables on ton miles, freight density and traffic distribution and other railway related tables and calculations. H. H. Copeland and Sons were an investment house, in existence from the late 19th century to at least the mid 1950's. The company ordered the compilations for the maps and tables to support their own business interests and would not allow the items to be copied.

ArchivalResource: 74.00

http://findingaids.library.northwestern.edu/catalog/inu-ead-archon-1317 View

Steamship Telephone plans [manuscript], 1909.

Title: Steamship Telephone plans [manuscript], 1909.

1 blueprint plan, side and bow elevations on 1 sheet, with duplicate, of the steamship Telephone for the Western Pacific Railway Co., 1909, scale: 1/4" : 1'.

ArchivalResource: 59 x 190 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/756839173 View

Henry Maxwell McCartney Collection, 1869-1911

Title: Henry Maxwell McCartney Collection, 1869-1911

ArchivalResource:

http://www.oac.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/tf009n96wp View

Curtis, Allen A. Manhattan Silver Mining Company, 1863-1888.

Title: Manhattan Silver Mining Company, 1863-1888.

Bills, invoices, correspondence, and other documents relating to the Manhattan Silver Mining Company's operations in and around Austin, Nevada during the period spanning 1863 to 1888.

ArchivalResource: 2 manuscript boxes ; 15 1/4 x 12 x 3 1/4 in.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/300092675 View

Oliver, Emery. Building the Western Pacific through the Feather River Canyon : ms. 1941 Mar.

Title: Building the Western Pacific through the Feather River Canyon : ms. 1941 Mar.

With this: notes on transportation (railroads, stage coaches, river steamers, Pacific Mail Steamship Co., etc.) and on Claus Spreckels. (17 l.)

ArchivalResource: 15 leaves.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/25728391 View

Cavagnaro, James Finley, Jr,. Railway and locomotive historical societies : album, 1940-1958.

Title: Railway and locomotive historical societies : album, 1940-1958.

Society newsletters and magazines, rail excursion flyers, excursion photographs, news clippings, announcements, time tables, ticket stubs, map, etc.

ArchivalResource: 1 linear ft. (1 manuscript box and 1 print box)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122444941 View

Stereographs of the Central Pacific and Western Pacific Railroads, ca. 1868-1873

Title: Stereographs of the Central Pacific and Western Pacific Railroads, ca. 1868-1873

Stereographs of the Central Pacific Railroad taken by Thomas Houseworth & Co. Includesone stereo of the Western Pacific Railroad.

ArchivalResource: 17 photographic prints (mounted), 8.5 x 17.5 cm

http://www.oac.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/kt638nc56m View

United States. Interstate Commerce Commission. Interstate Commerce Commission finance docket : Washington, D.C. : typescript (photocopy), 1963 Sept. 9.

Title: Interstate Commerce Commission finance docket : Washington, D.C. : typescript (photocopy), 1963 Sept. 9.

Finance docket 21314 et al, for Southern Pacific Company and Western Pacific Railroad Company.

ArchivalResource: 2, 143, [13] p. ; 32 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/55115578 View

Slade, Irving T. Irving Slade letters : to his mother Mrs. C.V. Slade in Auburn, Calif. : ALS, 1869-1879.

Title: Irving Slade letters : to his mother Mrs. C.V. Slade in Auburn, Calif. : ALS, 1869-1879.

Thirty-one letters from Irving Slade to his mother written from various locations including Oakland, Sacramento, Santa Clara, Mayfield, Belmont, San Miguel, Auburn, Petaluma, Cottonwood, Castroville, Salinas, San Francisco, Gazos Mill near Pescadero, Elko, Osino, and Voss Mill. He writes of his impressions of the towns, family, a job as conductor on the Oakland Street Railroad, the Mechanics Fair in San Francisco, Oakland Military Institute, work on the Western Pacific Railroad constructing a telegraph line from San Jose to San Francisco, his co-workers and their ethnic backgrounds, railroad food, other telegraph work. In letters apparently written while he was taking care of the family business in Auburn while his mother was east he writes of finances, buying and selling of cattle, and customers. In other letters he requests blankets and clothes to be sent to him, and tells of taking a situation at a ranch near Petaluma, a telegraph line job on the California and Oregon Railroad, and describes locations visited in his work. He also writes of buying horses, business opportunities for which he requests loans, a job at Gazos Mill, the Pigeon Point lighthouse nearby, and other travels and jobs.

ArchivalResource: 1 portfolio (.1 linear ft.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/227483714 View

Caughran, John H. Humaconna.

Title: Humaconna.

ArchivalResource: items in folder : ill., photo. ; 22 x 28 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/21767131 View

Rockwell, Pauline. Pauline Rockwell scrapbook, 1931-1937.

Title: Pauline Rockwell scrapbook, 1931-1937.

Scrapbook contains clippings relating to Pauline Rockwell's career and her son Bobbie's including his meeting Judy Garland. Also includes clippings and photographs about the golden spike to connect the Western Pacific and Great Northern railroads in Northern Calif.

ArchivalResource: 1 v. ; 30 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/62313892 View

Santa Fe Railroad Collection RG D 004., 1897-1968

Title: Santa Fe Railroad Collection 1897-1968

Records of the Gulf, Colorado, and Santa Fe Railroad Company, 1897-1968. Part 3 of 7.

ArchivalResource:

http://www.lib.utexas.edu/taro/houpub/00008/00008p3-P.html View

Lee, Charles H. (Charles Hamilton), 1883-1967. Report on cause of cracking and subsequent movement of concrete lining of Tunnel no. 32, Western Pacific Railroad Co. near Keddie, California / by Charles H. Lee.

Title: Report on cause of cracking and subsequent movement of concrete lining of Tunnel no. 32, Western Pacific Railroad Co. near Keddie, California / by Charles H. Lee. 1932.

A report with opinion whether or not the work of the California State Highway Commission has been the cause of the cracking and subsequent movement of the concrete lining of the tunnel adjacent to the east portal.

ArchivalResource: 1 v. ; 28 cm. + 5 evelopes.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/27040955 View

Perlman, Alfred E. Alfred E. Perlman papers, 1935-1974.

Title: Alfred E. Perlman papers, 1935-1974.

The collection contains corporate financial records, business files, clippings, and correspondence that document Perlman's career. Biographical material includes: clippings, photographs, magazine articles, testimonials, and awards. There are numerous reports covering a wide range of Perlman's activities, from information on the 1935 Republican Valley Flood that impacted the Chicago, Burlington, Quincy Railroad to a 1949 rail transport facilities report on South Korean railways to capital equipment programs for the New York Central in the 1960s. Ephemera include: appointment calendars, slides, and programs for meetings.

ArchivalResource: 15.30 cubic ft. (23 boxes)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/137242152 View

Brown, Thomas P. (Thomas Pollok), b. 1879. Over the Sierra Nevada Mountains via the Western Pacific Railroad Feather River route, 1940.

Title: Over the Sierra Nevada Mountains via the Western Pacific Railroad Feather River route, 1940.

Includes a travelog describing the route of the Western Pacific Railroad Company through the Feather River Canyon of the Sierra Nevada Mountains of Calif.; map of the railroad's route across Calif., Nev., and Utah; profile maps of the route from Oakland, Calif., to Salt Lake City, Utah, and the extension from Keddie to Bieber, Calif.; and a poem, "The Feather River Canyon" by WPRR employee William Wikander.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (27 p.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/43669316 View

Fellow, Fred D. Fred D. Fellow railroad collection, 1903-1955.

Title: Fred D. Fellow railroad collection, 1903-1955.

Correspondence, maps, histories, stock certificates, and technical and statistical information pertaining to various railroad companies in Utah.

ArchivalResource: 47 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/365149858 View

United States. Interstate Commerce Commission. Stenographer's minutes of the hearing before the Interstate Commerce Commission in the matter of : Southern Pacific Company--control [of] Western Pacific Railroad Company, et al., at San Francisco, typescript, 1961 July 17-1961 November 21.

Title: Stenographer's minutes of the hearing before the Interstate Commerce Commission in the matter of : Southern Pacific Company--control [of] Western Pacific Railroad Company, et al., at San Francisco, typescript, 1961 July 17-1961 November 21.

ArchivalResource: 4.5 ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/29853239 View

Seidenberg, Jacob. Jacob Seidenberg. Additional Arbitration case files 1961-1983.

Title: Jacob Seidenberg. Additional Arbitration case files 1961-1983.

Arbitration case files, 1961-1983.

ArchivalResource: 18 linear ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/64059510 View

McCartney, Henry Maxwell, 1848-1915. Henry Maxwell McCartney Collection, 1869-1911.

Title: Henry Maxwell McCartney Collection, 1869-1911.

Business papers, charts, correspondence, diaries, maps, photographs, railroad papers.

ArchivalResource: 20 manuscript boxes.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/58745819 View

Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad Company. Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad Company Records, 1858- 1964.

Title: Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad Company Records, 1858- 1964.

The collection contains correspondence, legal documents, blueprints and maps, timetables, publicity literature, ledgers, stock registers, and survey reports.

ArchivalResource: 214 linear ft. (ca. 500,000 pieces)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/25751682 View

Western Pacific Railroad Company. Western Pacific Railroad Company train register volumes and stock certrificates, 1941, 1945-1953.

Title: Western Pacific Railroad Company train register volumes and stock certrificates, 1941, 1945-1953.

Two train register volumes (Oct.-Nov. 1941) from the railroad's station at Weso, Nev., and stock certificates issued (1945-1953).

ArchivalResource: .1 linear ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/74986194 View

Keddie, Arthur W. (Arthur Walter), 1842-1924. Arthur W. Keddie papers : additions.

Title: Arthur W. Keddie papers : additions.

Includes materials relating to land acquisitions of the Western Pacific Railroad at Quincy, Calif. and in Plumas Co.

ArchivalResource: 1 carton.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/26872332 View

Steamship Telephone plans, 1909

Title: Steamship Telephone plans 1909

1 blueprint plan, side and bow elevations on 1 sheet, with duplicate, of the steamship Telephone for the Western Pacific Railway Co., 1909, scale: 1/4" : 1'.

ArchivalResource: 59 x 190 cm.

http://nwda.orbiscascade.org/ark:/80444/xv98608 View

Western Pacific Railroad Company. Western Pacific Railroad Company train registers and stock certificates, 1941-1953.

Title: Western Pacific Railroad Company train registers and stock certificates, 1941-1953.

Train register volumes (Oct.-Nov. 1941) from the company's railroad station in Humboldt County, Nev.; together with stock certificates (1945, 1947, and 1953).

ArchivalResource: .1 linear ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/123945279 View

Pennsylvania Railroad Company. Office of Chief of Freight Transportation. Records, 1927-1955.

Title: Records, 1927-1955.

The records of the Chief of Freight Transportation consists of 22 linear ft. selected from a much larger body of files. Several files, including those on the operation of circus trains and the Fruit Growers Express Company, continue those of the Chief of Transportation. The files have been appraised to select the most important developments of each period and to document the most important freight services.

ArchivalResource: 22 linear ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122370812 View

McFarland, Robert H., d. 1954. Robert H. McFarland correspondence and railroad ephemera, 1930-1950.

Title: Robert H. McFarland correspondence and railroad ephemera, 1930-1950.

Contains mostly correspondence, some on letterhead stationery, between McFarland, other railroad enthusiasts and organizations, and railroad companies. Most of the letters concern the buying and selling of railroad photographs. Also includes some railroad ephemera, a brochure for The Western Pacific Railroad Company "Feather River Route" and a typescript copy of a Southern Pacific Company "resume of instructions" for railway workers (with index) containing details of their standard operating procedures.

ArchivalResource: 1 box (0.2 linear feet)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/753082002 View

Thomas Houseworth & Co. Stereographs of the Central Pacific and Western Pacific Railroads [graphic] / Thomas Houseworth & Co.

Title: Stereographs of the Central Pacific and Western Pacific Railroads [graphic] / Thomas Houseworth & Co. [ca. 1868-1873]

Primarily landscape images of the Central Pacific Railroad route, with some photos of railroad tracks, bridges, a snow plow, and a ferry boat. Includes photos of Donner Lake, Truckee River, Lake Angela, French Lake, and Cisco in winter. There is one stereo of a group (family?) of Washoe (i.e, Washo) Indians. The one stereo from the Western Pacific Railroad shows a view of the water and horizon of San Francisco Bay.

ArchivalResource: 18 photographic prints (stereographs) : b? ; 8.5 x 17.5 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122382966 View