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Union Pacific Railroad Company. Company newsletters and communications
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This collection consists of railroad photographs, ephemera and publications, 1829-2010, with the bulk of material from the early- to mid-20th century. The focus is chiefly locomotives and trains (steam and diesel) of major railroads and interurban electric railways of the United States and Canada. Also represented in the collection are smaller shortline and narrow-gauge railroads; other foreign railroads; streetcars (or trolleys); and burgeoning light rail and subway systems. Most of the ephemera is printed material produced by railroad companies for promotional and business purposes, such as annual reports, brochures, route maps and guides, timetables, tickets, dining menus, stationery, stock certificates, bond coupons and other items. There are also many city and state tourist guidebooks describing sights along rail routes or promoting land available for farming, mining or home-building across the United States. Also included are items produced for or by railroad employees, such as instruction and safety manuals, train orders, freight bills and in-house newsletters. Railroad industry publications, statistics and reports can be found in the American Association of Railroads files, which are part of Donald Duke's subject files on railroad-related topics. Throughout the ephemera files are newspaper and journal clippings, often from scarce small press and trade publications such as The Railway and Engineering Review, The Railroad Gazette, The Santa Fe Magazine, The Western Railroader, Railway Age and others. In addition to railroad history, other topics of social and cultural historical interest in the ephemera are: Depictions of African Americans and Native Americans in mass-marketed train travel brochures. There are many examples that reflect American cultural and class stereotypes in the early- to mid-20th century. Selected files are noted in the container list. Occupational safety and health: See railroad worker safety manuals and accident prevention literature in ephemera files. History of food and drink: See numerous dining and beverage menus throughout Railroads and Foreign Railroads ephemera files (not always noted in container list). History of graphic design and typography: See examples of early- and mid- 20th century popular styles in printed ephemera throughout collection. Photographs and negatives: The photographs depict locomotives, freight and passenger trains, logging railroads, electric interurbans and streetcars across the United States. This was primarily a publishers file of ready-for-press photographs, which are almost all 8 x 10-inch black-and-white prints, made approximately 1950s-1980s. The photographs were made chiefly by various amateur train photographers, including Donald Duke, but most are uncredited. There are some copy prints (photographs of other photographs), and a few original photographs from the late 19th-early 20th century. Some photographs have locations and dates written on the back, but many are unidentified other than the name of the railroad. There are a few files on Ward Kimball (1914-2002), one of the original animators for Walt Disney Studios and an avid rail enthusiast. There are some photographs, biographical materials, and a file on his personal backyard narrow-gauge steam railroad, Grizzly Flats Railroad, in San Gabriel, California.
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Union Pacific Railroad Company. Company newsletters and communications
Rare Books
This collection consists of railroad photographs, ephemera and publications, 1829-2010, with the bulk of material from the early- to mid-20th century. The focus is chiefly locomotives and trains (steam and diesel) of major railroads and interurban electric railways of the United States and Canada. Also represented in the collection are smaller shortline and narrow-gauge railroads; other foreign railroads; streetcars (or trolleys); and burgeoning light rail and subway systems. Most of the ephemera is printed material produced by railroad companies for promotional and business purposes, such as annual reports, brochures, route maps and guides, timetables, tickets, dining menus, stationery, stock certificates, bond coupons and other items. There are also many city and state tourist guidebooks describing sights along rail routes or promoting land available for farming, mining or home-building across the United States. Also included are items produced for or by railroad employees, such as instruction and safety manuals, train orders, freight bills and in-house newsletters. Railroad industry publications, statistics and reports can be found in the American Association of Railroads files, which are part of Donald Duke's subject files on railroad-related topics. Throughout the ephemera files are newspaper and journal clippings, often from scarce small press and trade publications such as The Railway and Engineering Review, The Railroad Gazette, The Santa Fe Magazine, The Western Railroader, Railway Age and others. In addition to railroad history, other topics of social and cultural historical interest in the ephemera are: Depictions of African Americans and Native Americans in mass-marketed train travel brochures. There are many examples that reflect American cultural and class stereotypes in the early- to mid-20th century. Selected files are noted in the container list. Occupational safety and health: See railroad worker safety manuals and accident prevention literature in ephemera files. History of food and drink: See numerous dining and beverage menus throughout Railroads and Foreign Railroads ephemera files (not always noted in container list). History of graphic design and typography: See examples of early- and mid- 20th century popular styles in printed ephemera throughout collection. Photographs and negatives: The photographs depict locomotives, freight and passenger trains, logging railroads, electric interurbans and streetcars across the United States. This was primarily a publishers file of ready-for-press photographs, which are almost all 8 x 10-inch black-and-white prints, made approximately 1950s-1980s. The photographs were made chiefly by various amateur train photographers, including Donald Duke, but most are uncredited. There are some copy prints (photographs of other photographs), and a few original photographs from the late 19th-early 20th century. Some photographs have locations and dates written on the back, but many are unidentified other than the name of the railroad. There are a few files on Ward Kimball (1914-2002), one of the original animators for Walt Disney Studios and an avid rail enthusiast. There are some photographs, biographical materials, and a file on his personal backyard narrow-gauge steam railroad, Grizzly Flats Railroad, in San Gabriel, California.
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History of Public Instruction in Drawing in the United States
Visual Materials
One pamphlet entitled History of Public Instruction in Drawing in the United States, published by Woolworth, Ainsworth & Co., New York, Boston and Chicago, ca. 1875. This 34-page pamphlet is, in effect, a publisher's advertisement for the Bartholomew System of Drawing. William Bartholomew is attributed to having introduced drawing instruction into the American public schools. The recounting of this process is then followed by extracts from the Mass. legislature, Board of Education committees, etc. as well as testaments in support of the Bartholomew system and its products. The title is within a simple, decorated frame on the front cover, and the back cover is blank. The final page, which is unnumbered, is a publisher's advertisement for "Bartholomew's National System of Drawing" for primary, grammar, and high schools.
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Franklin Hichborn letter to Andrae Nordskog
Manuscripts
In a previous letter, Andrae Nordskog asks Franklin Hichborn to follow and garner support for a measure to amend the California constitution following a failed ballot proposition to enable cities the right to grant franchises for privately owned public utilities and to collect taxes without having to fix the rates. In this response, Hichborn denies the request citing that he has been retired for many years and is now out of touch with the present order at the state capitol, nor does he have any time to study the measure. He closes the letter trusting that Nordkog was able to locate a copy if Hichborn's book, The system.
mssHM 66235
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Alert: A Weekly Confidential Report on Communism and How to Combat It [newsletter]
Manuscripts
The 54 items, which are arranged chronologically, include correspondence, military records, reports, programs, and a newsletter. The collection also contains some ephemera related to the groups and individuals MacDonald was investigating. The material before 1947 deals with MacDonald's early Army career and his appointment as a Security Protective Agent for the War Department and the Corps of Engineers. The material after 1947 pertains to MacDonald's espionage work and his monitoring of radical groups in Los Angeles. These items include material MacDonald collected about the groups as well as his reports on their activities. Some of the groups and people he investigated are: the Congress of American Women, the Federation of American Citizens of German Descent, Dr. Wesley A. Swift, and a conference on civil rights held by the Los Angeles Community Relations Council. Also included is a copy of the newsletter Alert: a weekly confidential report on communism and how to combat it. The collection deals with the following subjects: anti-communist movements, anti-Jewish propaganda, anti-Semitism, Communism, espionage, race relations in the United States, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, the Women's International Democratic Federation, and subversive activities. Some notable authors of correspondence are: Agnes Ayres, George Van Horn Moseley, Gerald L. K. Smith, Colonel Edwin C. Kelton, and Major General Ralph H. Van Deman.
HM 66575
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To Arthur Dobbs, Rowland Fry, James Douglas, Henry Douglas, John Tomlinson, Robert Macky, William Bowden and Samuel Smith, Esqrs. This Chart of the Coast where a Northwest Passage was attempted under their direction in the years 1746 and 1747, is most respectfully dedicated by their Agent & very humble Servt. Henry Ellis
Visual Materials
Kashnor notes, "This expedition is commonly associated with the name of Ellis in consequence of his having written an account of it in his book, 'A Voyage to Hudson's Bay, by the Dobbs Galley and California,' 1748. He was nominally agent for the committee, but in reality hydrographer and surveyor. The net result of the expedition was the decision that the long-sought passage could not lie through Hudson's Bay. Sayer, the map maker, appears to have come into possession of the old plate, but this is the first issue of the map." Map contains notes regarding the exploration of several possible passages. Ships & whales.. Prime meridian: London. Relief: pictorial. Projection: Mercator. Watermark: Crowned fleur-di-lis VI. Printing Process: Copper engraving. Other Features: CartoucheVignettes. Verso Text: MS note: 439 Q29.
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