Cheever, Bruce Bissell

Bruce Bissell Cheever, an avid scholar of railroad history, amassed a collection of photographs relating to railroads and interurban railway systems in the Pacific Northwest during a lifetime of research on the subject.

He earned his Master's Degree in Social Studies from the University of Washington, and became an instructor in the Economics Department at Western Washington State College of Education in 1948. In 1951, Mr. Cheever took a leave of absence from Western to pursue his personal academic interests, and worked for the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). Bruce Cheever published works from the 1940s through the 1970s, in Trolley Sparks, Traction and Models, and a monograph titled "The Development of Railroads in the State of Washington: 1860-1948," published in 1949 by the Western Washington College of Education.

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