Photographs from the Clement family documents relating to San Francisco cable cars [graphic]. ca. 1880-ca. 1910.

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Photographs from the Clement family documents relating to San Francisco cable cars [graphic]. ca. 1880-ca. 1910.

Includes photographic portraits taken in 1887 of students and faculty of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, believed to be teachers and classmates of Russell Montague Clement; views of various cable cars, power houses and other railway subjects in San Francisco, Oakland and elsewhere; a tintype portrait of a couple who may be Lewis Meltzer Clement and his wife; views of Boston in the 1880s; view of a road in Riverside, Calif.; and other subjects.

1 box and 2 oversize folders (ca. 100 photographic prints) : 35 x 28 cm or smaller.

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SNAC Resource ID: 8177760

UC Berkeley Libraries

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Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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The Department of General Studies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) did not officially exist until 1882. Courses in general studies were offered as early as 1865, when the MIT Catalog offered a curriculum option called the Course in Science and Literature. At that time, all regular MIT students were required to take “general studies” classes from the Course in Science and Literature, in addition to English, history, and modern languages. In 1882 the Course in Scienc...

Clements family.

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Russell Montague Clement, son of L.M. Clement was an engineer for the Southern Pacific Railroad Co., the Pacific Improvement Co. and the City Engineer for Oakland, Calif. Lewis Metzler Clement was a railroad engineer for the Central Pacific Railroad and Southern Pacific Railroad. Projects included working on a pass through the Sierra Nevada Mountains and cable car lines for the Market Street Cable Railway Co. From the description of Photographs from the Cleme...

Flaglor, A. P. (Amasa Plummer).

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Clement, L. M

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L. M. Clement was an engineer for the Central Pacific Railroad Company. From the description of Journal of L. M. Clement, 1865, Jan.-June. (Huntington Library, Art Collections & Botanical Gardens). WorldCat record id: 122499716 Biography Lewis Metzler Clement Lewis Metzler Clement, known as L.M. Clement, was born in Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario, Canada, on August 12, 1837. Clem...