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Language of Material:
English
Contributing Institution:
Department of Special Collections and University Archives
Title: William Everard Gardiner transportation collection
source:
Gardiner, William Everard
Identifier/Call Number: M0326
Physical Description:
6 Linear Feet
(8 boxes, 1 carton, 1 map folder)
Date (inclusive): 1869-1940
Abstract: Collection of photographs and research material concerning railroads, street cars and other public transportation in and around
Oakland and Berkeley, California.
[identification of item], William Everard Gardiner Transportation Collection (M0326). Dept. of Special Collections and University
Archives, Stanford University Libraries, Stanford, Calif.
Open for research. Note that material must be requested at least 36 hours in advance of intended use. Photograph negatives
are not available.
While Special Collections is the owner of the physical and digital items, permission to examine collection materials is not
an authorization to publish. These materials are made available for use in research, teaching, and private study. Any transmission
or reproduction beyond that allowed by fair use requires permission from the owners of rights, heir(s) or assigns.
Collection of photographs and research material concerning railroads, street cars and other public transportation in and around
Oakland and Berkeley, California from historian and local railway employee William Everard Gardiner (1869-1949). Born in Cedar
County, Iowa, Gardiner worked for the San Francisco-Oakland Terminal Railways and later the Key System (which took over the
SF-O Terminal Railways in 1924). He was Chief Instructor and Superintendent of Schedules through at least 1928.
Gardiner was an early member of the Pacific Railway Club (est. 1917) and Railway and Locomotive Historical Society (est. 1925).
He was also a photographer, and the collection contains negatives and prints made by him, along with reproductions of older
images. Some of the photographs by Gardiner document the 1906 earthquake’s effects in Berkeley. There is also information
on the general history of Alameda County.
The collection contains photographs, manuscripts & typescripts on history (some transcribed), correspondence, newspaper &
magazine clippings (primarily 1920s Oakland Tribune articles), ephemera including many examples of train tickets, scrapbooks,
and other material. Gardiner material may be present in other Stanford transportation collections; likewise other material
may have been added to the Gardiner collection in the past.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Hopkins Transportation Library.
Transportation -- History.
Railroads -- History
Oakland (Calif.) -- History.
Berkeley (Calif.) -- History.
Railfans
Gardiner, William Everard
Key System Transit Lines (Calif.)
San Francisco-Oakland Terminal Railways
Amalgamated Association of Street, Electric Railway and Motor Coach Employees of America