Right-of-way maps of Southern Pacific Company, 1914-1960.

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Right-of-way maps of Southern Pacific Company, 1914-1960.

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Although the majority of the maps are for the Southern Pacific Company, there are also maps for the Pacific Electric Railway Company and the Inter-California Railway. The collection contains 117 silk maps and 16 photocopies of maps. They are all locations in Southern California.

133 maps.

Huntington Library, Art Collections & Botanical Gardens

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SNAC Resource ID: 7326471

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Southern Pacific Company

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What started as a boycott by the American Railway Union against Pullman's Palace Car Co. in 1894 escalated to a strike covering the area from Chicago to the Pacific Coast. On the premise of interfering with the mails the federal government intervened and crushed the strike. From the description of Journal of incidents in San Francisco resulting from the American Railway Union strike, 1894 June 27-Aug. 31. (Huntington Library, Art Collections & Botanical Gardens). WorldCat record ...

Pacific Electric Railway Company

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The Pacific Electric Railway was established in Southern California by railroad and real estate tycoon Henry E. Huntington in 1901; by 1911 it was the largest interurban electric transport system in the nation with over 1000 miles of track. The first interurban line constructed by the Railway ran from Los Angeles to Long Beach, and opened in 1902. In 1905, Huntington opened the Pacific Electric Building at 6th and Main Streets in Los Angeles which served as the terminal for many of the interurba...

Inter-California Railway.

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