Bruce Cheever railroad photographs 1890-1977

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Bruce Cheever railroad photographs 1890-1977

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The Bruce Cheever railroad photographs depict railway systems in Washington state, Oregon, other states of the region, and also British Columbia from the late 19th century to the late 20th Century. The photographs depict railway cars, engines, and other rolling stock of railroads and railways throughout the Pacific Northwest as well as railway conductors, passengers, train stations, wharves and city scenes.

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Cheever, Bruce Bissell

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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 ...