William H. Bull Collection, 1891-1919.
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Bull, William H.
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William H. Bull, 1861-1940, arrived in San Francisco in 1894. He was employed by Southern Pacific Railroad as their first commercial artist. He specialized in doing advertising and in painting pictures of California's beauty spots for Southern Pacific's promotional materials. Bull also designed covers for Sunset Magazine. From the description of William H. Bull Collection, 1891-1919. (California State Library). WorldCat record id: 58746645 Histor...
Southern Pacific railroad company
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The Southern Pacific Railroad was founded in 1865 and was purchased in 1869 by Collis Huntington, Leland Stanford, Charles Crocker and Mark Hopkins, better known as the Big Four. It was the first railroad to connect Los Angeles to the rest of California and its lines extended as far as New Orleans. In 1901, the Union Pacific Railroad bought 38% of Southern Pacific stock and took control of the company, but the Union Pacific was ultimately forced to divest these shares in 1912 by the U.S. Supreme...
