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Southern Pacific Railroad Company
Rare Books
Includes train(s): Shasta Daylight. Includes (selected items): book: "A call for restoration to service of the Shasta Daylight Passenger Train Between San Francisco, California and Portland, Oregon and A call for an investigation of Southern Pacific passenger service by the Davis Railroad Club, University of California Davis, California." (156 p.) Happy Train Free Press, Davis, California, June 23, 1967.
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Southern Pacific Railroad materials
Manuscripts
Holabird's papers have been arranged into four main series. The first and largest series (HM 73863-73875) is comprised of documents and correspondences related to Holabird's survey of Miller and Lux's property for Southern Pacific in 1909. Holabird's surveys were in response to the Southern Pacific's interest in purchasing Miller and Lux and its various holdings. There is one letter by Henry Miller to Holabird. Series two (HM 73876-73878) concerns a handful of papers, reports, and other documents related to Holabird's time as receiver and general manager of the California Development Company. Series three (HM 73879-73884) is made up of various reports Holabird wrote during and after his trips to the Philippines, Manchuria, and Siberia while working for E.H. Harriman and the Southern Pacific Railroad. This section also includes related correspondences regarding Manchuria with New York City-based journalist George Kennan (1845-1924). The final series (HM 73885-73892) includes a number of miscellaneous items: a photograph of Holabird, biographical and autobiographical materials, letters, and World War I-era essays written by Holabird regarding nationalism and communism; it also includes a folder of ephemera with two copies of the Los Angeles Times announcing Holabird's death and a newspaper clipping written by Holabird on agriculture and irrigation in the Imperial Valley.
mssHM 73863-73892
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[Building the Southern Pacific Railroad in Arizona.]
Visual Materials
This collection contains 430 albumen photographs by photographer Carleton E. Watkins that chiefly depict buildings, points of interest, and locales in Northern and Southern California in the 1870s and 1880s, as well as 223 card photographs by photographer Alfred A. Hart documenting the construction of the western half of the transcontinental railroad by the Central Pacific Railroad (CPRR) in the 1860s, which were later published by Watkins under his own imprint. Images by Watkins depict locations in Arizona and California including: Lake Tahoe, Los Angeles, the Mammoth Tree Grove, Paso Robles, San Bernardino, San Diego, San Gabriel, San Luis Obispo, San Pedro, Santa Monica, Soda Springs, Wilmington, and Yosemite, as well as views related to the Southern Pacific Railroad and of the Colorado River. There are a few images of Native Americans in Arizona and California, and several images related to trains and railroads. The photographs have been removed from the original album, which is a large leather album with brass bindings (Box 10). There are some handwritten identifications in the album pages, most likely written after if was received by the Library.
photCL 74
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Carrie Belle Deal Ellis diary and receipt book
Manuscripts
A manuscript diary kept by Carrie Belle Deal Ellis from December 5, 1892 to May 15, 1893. The diary, written in pencil, records her daily life along with occasional entries listing her expenditures. The entries detail her activities, including painting, and other experiences, and thoughts, as well as her travels, health, the lives of her children, and other domestic concerns. The diary is bound in contemporary sheep with some minor edge wear and soiling, the rear endpaper is loose and some pages at the front of the volume have been removed. The diary is accompanied by a receipt book dated from 1909 to 1912, from the area of Auburn, California. The first entry is 152 which would indicate this volume is part of a series of receipt books. This volume was found with the diary, though there are no details within the book that directly ties it to Carrie Ellis. But, as the Ellis family lived in Washington, California, very near Auburn, it is possible this receipt book belonged to her or a family member. The receipt book is contemporary quarter brown cloth and marbled paper boards, with some creasing on the back cover, and damage to the spine.
mssHM 84129
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Transportation - Southern Pacific Railroad
Manuscripts
5 items: 105-pp. (clipped but appears incomplete) title - "Historical Outline - Southern Pacific Company" (3/1933, noted on p. 2) ; booklet, Seventy-Five years of Progress, by Erle Heath, 12/1945 ; tear sheet, Sunset, 8/1953, "The Main Line," (SP ad) ; complete issue, Southern Pacific Bulletin, 8/1955 ; brochure for "Railfair Sacramento 1981 - California State Railroad Museum, May 2 to 10, 1981.
mssLAT
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Receipt Book
Manuscripts
An autograph receipt book containing miscellaneous financial transactions from construction work to the education of his or her children in Yonkers, New York. The entries are signed by various individuals. Note, the back cover is detached.
mssHM 80240