Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
Visual Materials
View of Mission Street in South Pasadena, California, showing streetcar tracks, storefronts of businesses and automobiles parked on street. A small sign on center pole says "Mission Street." Signs on buildings say "South Pasadena," "W.B. Stone Garage," "Sam Seelig Co.," and automobile dealerships appear on either side of street.
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Manuscripts
Prior to the adoption of newer train dispatching methods, train orders were the primary means of providing temporary instructions, or instructions for a specific train. Train orders were issued at stations along the route. If a train crew reported for service at a station, the orders would be received there. At other stations, the orders would be handed up to the train crew members "on the fly". Train orders were of two basic types: Train orders pertaining to authorization of train movements or train orders pertaining to operating or track conditions. Trains orders of the second type usually involved temporary speed restrictions, or maintenance of way personnel on the tracks. One train order is a Santa Fe Form 933 from July 1, 1944. Four are Form 19s from the Burlington Lines from January 1947.
mssHM 74638
Visual Materials
A woman and two men stand outside the Santa Anita train station near the railroad tracks. An automobile is parked next to the train station, which also has a sign for Western Union telegram and cable office.
photCL Whitt 0479 ; Whitt neg. 0900
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Visual Materials
Includes map and legend created by previous archivist showing sites referenced in Item 70, among them the Mohr and Graham block, South Pasadena Hotel, first Raymond Hotel, El Centro School, Graham House, and the Santa Fe tracks.
photCL 280
Visual Materials
View of the Santa Fe Station at 222 South Raymond, with a Hudson two door coach automobile parked in front of the railroad depot, unloading luggage. A man is talking to a young man in a Murphy Service coat, while the woman leans against the opened driver's side door. Names noted are Fred Curtis White and Mrs. Lewis Laulor.
photCL 402 (28493)
Visual Materials
A series of three images showing a Union Pacific train at the "continuous rail" crossing in South Gate. The image on the left shows a crowd of onlookers at the South Gate station, watching as a train pulls in. The center image shows a crowd of people facing the last car of a train, with six men on the rear platform numbered in white ms. writing and identified below as "1. Senator W.J. Carr, State Railroad Commission ; 2. H.H. Whalen ; 3. Rex B. Goodcell ; 4. Governor C.C. [Clement Calhoun] Young ; 5. Mayor, John C. Porter ; 6. Elmer Snyder". Writing in white in the bottom left of the center image reads "Special Union Pacific Train, at first Official ; Demonstration of "Continuous Rail" crossing ; At South Gat [sic], California, Aug. 7th 1930." Writing in white in the bottom right corner of the center image reads "Photo By ; F.M. Huddleston". The image on the right shows a locomotive stopped at an intersection of rail lines, with a group of people standing around and looking at it.
photCL 470 (199)
