Guide to the Railway & Locomotive Historical Society's William M. Hayes Negatives MS 899
CSRM Library & Archives
California State Railroad Museum Library & Archives
2023
Contributing Institution:
California State Railroad Museum Library & Archives
Title: Railway & Locomotive Historical Society's William M. Hayes negatives
Identifier/Call Number: MS 899
Physical Description:
2 Linear Feet
5 shoe boxes
Date (bulk): 1900-1965
Abstract: This collection includes photographic negatives belonging to amateur railroad photographer and one-time Western Union telegrapher
William M. (Murray) Hayes. They include images of locomotives, freight and passenger cars, stations, structures, ferries and
employees of railroads across the United States and Canada taken from 1900 to 1965.
Physical Location: Big Four building
Language of Material:
English
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Collection is open for research by appointment. Contact Library Staff.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Acquired by the Railway & Locomotive Historical Society and loaned to the California State Railroad Museum.
Arranged alphabetically by railroad name.
William Murray Hayes was born on July 26, 1899, in Cincinnatus, New York. Between the ages of 19 and 30, he was a telegraph
operator for Western Union. By the 1950s, Hayes was a radar tester for an electronics company. He died on May 17, 1976 in
Syracuse, New York.
This collection includes photographic negatives belonging to amateur railroad photographer and one-time Western Union telegrapher
William M. (Murray) Hayes. They include images of locomotives, freight and passenger cars, stations, structures, ferries and
employees of railroads across the United States and Canada taken from 1900 to 1965. The Delaware, Lackawanna and Western,
Chesapeake and Ohio, New York Central, Gulf, Mobile and Northern, Lehigh Valley and Illinois Central railroads are well-represented
here.
All negatives are 2x3" or smaller and are stored in paper sleeves. They include nitrate negatives which are stored separately.
The paper sleeves may include the following information: railroad name, date, geographic location, and negative subject. Not
all of the negatives in this collection were taken by Hayes. The name F. F. Sorrenberg appears on some of the negative sleeves.
In addition, there is one box of photographs taking during Hayes's childhood and early life in the community he grew up in
(Cincinnatous, New York).
Copyright has not been assigned to the California State Railroad Museum. All requests for permission to publish or quote from
manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the CSRM Library & Archives. Permission for publication is given on behalf of
the CSRM as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which
must also be obtained by the reader.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Photography of railroads
Railroads--Photography--Locomotives
Steam locomotives
Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad Company
New York Central Railroad Company
Lehigh Valley Railway Company
Long Island Rail Road