Opening Hours
Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
Manuscripts
Theodore D. Judah papers
- Description
- Documents, from 1859 to 1877, and notebook, from 1854 and 1862, belonging to Theodore D. Judah, concerning the financing and construction of the California Eastern Extension Railroad. Also included is a pencil map by Judah plotting the route of the railroad, and a printed volume of First Annual of the Territorial Pioneers of California, 1877, with clippings and calling cards pasted inside. The notebook contains costs of iron and locomotives, an expense account, sketch maps and elevations, notes and observations on trips across the Sierra Nevada Mountains in 1862. It also includes distances, elevations, and temperatures measured on an 1854 trip across the Sierras taken with Collis P. Huntington and others.
- Date
- 1854-1877
- Call number
- mssHM 55637-55655
