Guide to the William Everard Gardiner Transportation Collection M0326

Department of Special Collections and University Archives
revised 2017
Green Library
557 Escondido Mall
Stanford 94305-6064
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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.

Preferred Citation

[identification of item], William Everard Gardiner Transportation Collection (M0326). Dept. of Special Collections and University Archives, Stanford University Libraries, Stanford, Calif.

Conditions Governing Access

Open for research. Note that material must be requested at least 36 hours in advance of intended use. Photograph negatives are not available.

Conditions Governing Use

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.

Scope and Contents

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

 

Correspondence

box 1, folder 1

D.L. Joslyn re: membership in Railway and Locomotive Historical Society (RLHS) January 1925

box 1, folder 1

D.L. Joslyn re: streetcar pictures February 1925

box 1, folder 1

Stanley Keefe re: 19th Anniversary of Central Car House (addresses Gardiner as "Mr. Timetable Bill") March 1925

box 1, folder 1

D.L. Joslyn re: pictures of cars and locomotives including "Liberty" March 1925

box 1, folder 1

D.L. Joslyn re: S.P. Bulletin, snow plows, State Capitol, streetcars, ferries March-April 1925

box 1, folder 1

D.L. Joslyn re: RLHS May 1925

box 1, folder 1

William S. Wollner re: subscription to Northwestern Pacific Rail's Headlight monthly and the work of E.Holden, NPRR's Custodian of Records May 1925

box 1, folder 1

D.L. Joslyn re: Bulletin, photos, Keynote magazine May 1925

box 1, folder 1

F.W. Martin re: RLHS June 1925

box 1, folder 1

D.L. Joslyn re: lists and photos July 1925

box 1, folder 1

D.L. Joslyn re: photos January 1926

box 1, folder 1

D.L. Joslyn re: photos September 1926

box 1, folder 1

D.L. Joslyn re: ferry, Cliff House, RR photos, etc. October 1926

box 1, folder 1

D.L. Joslyn re: Bulletin contribution, Fair of the Iron Horse in Baltimore September-November 1927

box 1, folder 1

D.L. Joslyn re: San Francisco & San Jose engine builders July 1931

box 1, folder 1

Wm. P. St. Sure, VP and General Manager to employees re: health benefits May 1941

box 1, folder 1

East Bay Transit Co., Wm. P. St.Sure to Div. 818, Amalgamated Association of Street, Electric Railway and Motor Coach Employees of America (Daniel Carlson, President) re: terms of collective bargaining agreement October 1941

box 1, folder 1

Wm. P. St.Sure, V-P and General Manager to employees re: life insurance benefits 1942

box 1, folder 1

Union Pacific Railroad form letter re: map of Pony Express route in early 1860s September 10, 1951

 

Notes

box 1, folder 2

Notes taken from the San Francisco Directory 1860-61 re: Market Street, SF&SJ, Omnibus, and Folsom St. railroads, steamboat ferries

box 1, folder 2

Notes on railroads from Halley's history of Alameda County

box 1, folder 2

Notes on California railroads, especially SF&SJ and California&Nevada

box 1, folder 2

Notes on East Bay transportation, 1853-1901

box 1, folder 2

Notes on ferry service between SF, San Antonio and Oakland in the 1850s

box 1, folder 2

Notes on locomotives

box 1, folder 2

List of locomotive photos

box 1, folder 2

List of names and dates [conductors & motor men, inspections?]

box 1, folder 2

Notes on establishment of Bay Area towns and cities

box 1, folder 2

Notes on experimental run from Ogden to Oakland

box 1, folder 2

Notes re: hack fare in 1887

box 1, folder 2

Notes re: Mr. Frost's trip from SF to San Pablo by stage coach

box 1, folder 2

Notes re: Mr. Whipple's commencement of O,SL&H Electric Railway August 9, 1892

box 1, folder 2

Notes re: school bond issues 1915, 1924

box 1, folder 2

Notes re: Bulletin 182, August 1912

box 1, folder 2

Notes re: cities and systems

 

Bus & Jitney files

box 1, folder 3

Bus, Motor Coach route maps etc. 1920s-1930s

box 1, folder 4

The Jitney Bus History [Oakland, possibly by Gardiner]

box 1, folder 4

Oakland Jitney Bus Ordinance No. 810 NS of May 18, 1915 as amended by No. 957 of Jan. 13, 1016

box 1, folder 4

Vehicle Act 1915

box 1, folder 4

Blueprint map of downtown Oakland showing district where jitneys are not permitted

 

Key System history

box 1, folder 5

Chronological History of Early Horse, Steam and Cable Lines of the East Bay District, 1863-1890

box 1, folder 5

Chronological History of the Key System Transit Co. and Its Predecessors 1896-1924

box 1, folder 5

A Chronological History of the "Key Route," 1903-1926

box 1, folder 5

Chronological History of the Bus Lines of the Key System Transit Co., 1921-1927

 

Railroad files

box 1, folder 6

Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe, GD Bradley

box 1, folder 7

Northern Pacific Railway Co. Structural Pre-Inventory Notes, Interstate Commerce Commission, Division of Valuation April 1917

box 1, folder 8

Northern Pacific Railway notes on locomotives

box 1, folder 9

Santa Clara Interurban RR vs. Board of Trustees of the Town of Mayfield

box 1, folder 10

Southern Pacific timetables Northern Division No. 40, 44, 46, 51, 56 ; Coast Division No. 2, 3, 4, 6, 11. Presented by H.F. Bassett, March 1928 1882-1891

box 1, folder 11

Locomotive classification sheets: North West Pacific; Oregon & California; Oregonian; California Pacific; Southern Pacific; Northern Railway Co.; Central Pacific; Stockton & Copperopolis; South Pacific Coast Narrow Gauge; San Francisco & Oakland; San Francisco & Alameda

box 3, folder 5

Oakland, San Leandro & Haywards Electric Railway documents 1893 (photostats)

box 5, card-box 2

set of index cards chronicling train accidents from approximately 1847-1915, filed alphabetically by railroad company

 

Streetcar files

box 1, folder 12

Electric Railway Motors and Control System, Source Research Bureau

box 1, folder 12

Growth of Electric Railways, Frank J. Sprague, Source Research Bureau October 1916

box 1, folder 12

K Controllers, Source Research Bureau April 1921

box 1, folder 13

Oakland Railroad Co. - History of Telegraph Ave. Line by "Bill" Gardiner

box 1, folder 13

Timetables of Oakland Railroad Co. Telegraph Ave. and San Pablo Ave. Lines, 1888-1901

box 1, folder 14

Oakland, San Leandro & Haywards Electric Railway Co. Run Sheets and Time Card, 1894 etc.

box 1, folder 15

Oakland Transit Co. Transfer Slips 1901-1905

box 3, folder 10

street railroads, Los Angeles 1929-1936

Scope and Contents

typescript stamped Hopkins Tranportation Library.
 

Miscellaneous

box 1, folder 16

Alameda Co. Rail timetable, newspaper clipping May 23, 1889

box 1, folder 16

Oakland Consolidated Street Railway employee ticket

box 1, folder 16

Oakland Parking Ordinance, Oakland Tribune 1922

box 1, folder 16

Railway and Locomotive Historical Society membership dues receipt 1926

box 1, folder 16

Announcement of Acquisition of the San Fran.-Oak. Term. Rys. by the Key System Transit Co. January 15, 1924

box 1, folder 16

Oakland Transit Company and Syndicate Railways mounted letterheads

box 1, folder 16

Gardiner certificate, deputy sheriff of Alameda County January 1919

box 1, folder 16

Gardiner membership certificate, Amalgamated Assoc. of Street Railway Employees of America, Div. 192 July 1902

box 1, folder 16

Gardiner membership withdrawal card, Amalgamated Assoc. of Street Railway Employees of America, Div. 192 September 1903

box 1, folder 16

Western Railroader for the Western Railfan 1954, 1957

box 1, folder 16

Bulletin No. 2289 by JP Potter, Supt. Transportation, re: new hourly rates for motormen, conductors, brakemen [carbon] April 1919

box 1, folder 16

Oakland and San Francisco RR Ferry schedule

box 1, folder 16

DeLuxe Transportation Co. schedule, San Jose-Oakland Service July 1919

box 1, folder 16

Pacific Gas & Electric general lighting service schedule April 1924

box 1, folder 16

Oakland Charter Amendment November 1916

box 1, folder 16

Argument in Favor of Oakland Charter Franchise Amendment

box 1, folder 16

Highway Transportation Re-Makes America booklet, National Highway Users Conference September 1939

box 1, folder 16

Duluth Aerial Ferry Bridge booklet c. 1905

box 1, folder 16

Spring Wonder Trip Fifth Railroad Fan Excusion souvenir brochure May 1939

box 1, folder 16

Santa Fe System Lines "The Railroad" booklet 1939

box 1, folder 16

"Four Thousand Feet of Timetable," Bus Lines August 1917

box 1, folder 16

"Please Pass the Box Car," Colliers August 13, 1927

box 1, folder 16

Motor Land article

box 3, folder 7

Gardiner employee cards, SF-Oakland Terminal Railways 1917-1921

box 3, folder 7

Gardiner employee cards, Key System Transit Company 1925-1928

box 3, folder 7

Key System Rifle Club membership cards 1916-1921

box 3, folder 7

Key System Level Club membership card 1929

box 3, folder 7

Pacific Railway Club receipt,membership cards 1918-1921

box 3, folder 7

Other membership cards and passes (including Oakland Chamber of Commerce, hunting and fishing licenses, Red Cross, etc.)

box 3, folder 7

SF-O Terminal Railways Employe Exposition Trip Pass November 11, 1915

box 3, folder 7

Imperial Railway Bureau, Tokyo calling card

box 3, folder 7

First Fall Foto Festival, Western Pacific Railroad 1938

box 3, folder 7

insurance forms

box 3, folder 7

Santa Fe System Lines ad, Time November 1946

box 3, folder 9

Photo reproductions of Lost Continent maps by theosophical publishing society, with notes on verso

 

Newspaper clippings

Scope and Contents

Most are from the Oakland Tribune, but there are also clippings from the San Francisco Examiner, News, Chronicle and Bulletin.
box 2, folder 1

Boulder Dam 1931-1935

box 2, folder 2

Bridges, including Bay Bridge, Golden Gate, Carquinez, Martinez-Benecia, Antioch 1916-1935

box 2, folder 3

Local and state history, especially Oakland and Berkeley 1916-1926

box 2, folder 4

Key System, SF-O Terminal Railways news, including 1917 strikes and 1933 Key Pier fire 1916-1933

box 2, folder 5

Oakland 1916-1917

box 2, folder 6

Oakland estuary, Webster Street Bridge, etc. 1916-1932

box 2, folder 7

Oakland harbor, industry 1916-1927

box 2, folder 8

Oakland Traction Co. and other local railroads 1915-1919

box 2, folder 9

Railroads 1916-1929

box 2, folder 10

Transportation, including jitneys, Twin Peaks Tunnel, one-man safety cars 1916-1931

box 2, folder 11

War 1916-1917

box 2, folder 12

Misc. 1913-1930

box 2, folder 13, box 3, folder 1-3

Unsorted, but related to above topics 1916-1929

map-folder 10

newspapers: San Francisco Examiner, Oakland Tribune, Oakland Post Enquirer 1925-1927

 

Tickets and passes

box 3, folder 4

tickets, passes & conductor forms

Scope and Contents

Southern Pacific ; Alameda, Oakland & Piedmont ; Oakland RR ; Oakland Cable ; Folsom St. Railroad ; Ferries and Cliff House Railway ; Oakland, San Leandro & Haywards Rail ; Oakland Traction Company, etc. Includes press pass for High Street to Hayward bicycle race October 13, 1885
box 3, folder 6

San Francisco-Oakland Terminal Railways/Key System employee passes (cancelled and samples) 1914-1926

box 5, folder 4

scrapbook: Office of General Superintendent, Samples of Tickets and Instructions Regarding Honoring of Same, Over All Lines of San Francisco-Oakland Railways. For Stanley Keefe c. 1914-1920. "Rec'd 1914" on front

box 3, folder 9

Captioned display of train tickets and tokens from Oakland Railroad Company, 14th St. Railroad, Oakland, Brooklyn & Fruitvale Railroad

box 5, card-box 1

San Francisco-Oakland Terminal Railways and Key tickets and passes

box 5, card-box 1

Capitol Transit Company (Washington, D.C.) weekly passes 1930s-1940s

box 5, card-box 2

small scrapbook of passenger check tickets from the Midwest circa 1917-1922

Scope and Contents

mostly Pullman claim tickets. Annotated by owner, including typescript of memories as WWI soldier traveling in around US
box 5, card-box 2

small album of tickets from California Railway, Oakland Transit Company, Oakland, San Leandro & Hayward

box 5, card-box 2

Key System PPIE tokens 1915

Scope and Contents

small paper key-shaped souvenirs, one with a ribbon
box 5, card-box 2

Richmond & San Rafael Ferry Company badge 1915

 

Scrapbooks

Scope and Contents

Most have a SUL bookplate with inscription "In memory of William Everard Gardiner." There is some damage to the scrapbooks, including paint and warpage.
box 4, folder 1

article transcriptions, Oakland Daily Transcript and Encinal of Alameda 1869-1871 ; Oakland Tribune articles 1892

box 4, folder 2

History of Transportation in Oakland and East Bay District. article transcriptions from Oakland Tribune, Encinal of Alameda, Oakland Daily Transcript 1869-1899

box 4, folder 3

Scrapbook of newspaper clippings, mixed subjects 1915-1916

box 4, folder 4

Scrapbook of W.E. Gardiner, Instructor S.F.O.T. Rys. August, 1916. SF-O Transit Railways Re-Organization 1916 ; Key Route 1916-1917 ; "Today 20 Years Ago" column 1916-1920 ; etc.

box 4, folder 5

Scrapbook of newspaper clippings. WE Gardiner, Schedule Supervisor, Started January 1922 1918-1922

box 5, folder 1

Scrapbook of newspaper clippings: Bay Bridge, Golden Gate, Oakland Esurary Tubem Carquinez Bridge 1927-1930

box 5, folder 2

Scrapbook of newspaper clippings: Bay Bridge, Golden Gate 1933-1935

box 5, folder 3

Scrapbook with pages from Transit Journal 1934

box 6, folder 1

Scrapbook dating June 19, 1937, 1939, containing articles from Saturday Evening Post, Colliers, Liberty, Science, etc. concerning politics, astronomy, geology, labor, travel etc. Some hand copied articles and excerpts and typewritten copies of Research Bureau reports.

 

Photo Scrapbooks

Scope and Contents

Some prints are reproductions or published real photograph postcards. However, several have an embossed stamp identifying Gardiner as photographer. There is also a substantial amount of textual material in the scrapbooks.
box 7, folder 1

Berkeley, University of California

Scope and Contents

transcribed excerpts from Janes' Ilustrated History of the University of California ; Oakland Tribune article on Oakland's first school house, June 1921 ; Six photos (some missing): University of California, DeLuxe Coach, DeLuxe Station, Hayward, Clay St. Hill Railroad, San Francisco
box 7, folder 2

California Missions

Scope and Contents

California Missions (published photo postcards with captions) ; Oakland photos: church, City Hall Plaza, Hotel Alta, Old Webster St. Bridge approach ; Other: Key Ferry "Fernwood," AT&SF Railroad, 1700 Series at Cajon Pass
box 7, folder 3

Oakland

Scope and Contents

Aerial views of city and harbor ; photos of streets and buildings ; Oakland streetcars. 46 photographs: Oakland Inner Harbor 1910 ; 12th St. Dam 1910 ; 14th & Clay c.1909-1910 ; Near City Hall, c. 1910 ; View over Bay to Marin ; Oakland aerial views ; Pr. Richmond, 1912 ; UC Berkeley, aerial view ; Richmond? aerial view ; Crews, Telegraph Ave. Barns ; Leona Heights Car ; Elmhurst Car Barn ; Streetcars ; Broadway and 11th, early 1880s ; City Hall Plaza ; Key System Building ; Horse Car at SF Exhibition, 1915 ; City Hall from Washington St. postcard ; Oakland Mole postcard ; published photographs: Oakland City Hall, Old SP Depot, Road to Trestle Glen
box 7, folder 4

Oakland, earthquake 1906

Scope and Contents

16 photos showing effects of earthquake. Most buildings and streets identified in captions.
box 7, folder 5

Oakland, streetcars

Scope and Contents

81 photos (one dated 1904, some older copy prints). Streetcars of Alemeda Oakland & Piedmont Electric Railway, 14th St. RR, O & BRT Co., Oakland, Brooklyn & Fruitvale Railway, Oakland Con. St. Railway, Oakland Transit Co., Oakland, San Leandro & Haywards ; Oakland harbor ; Oakland streets and buildings ; OTC Div. Supt. and Insprctor group portrait ; Time schedules, A,O&P ; Grading of Grand Ave. at Adam's Point ; California Railways - steam ; Unidentified locomototive ; City of Richmond ferry ; unidentified ferries ; Oakland Traction Co. tower truck, 1907, tower wagon 1898 ; unidentified group in bleachers ; unidentifed group with pompoms and megaphone.
Scrapbook also contains SF-Oakland Terminal Railways Chart of Organization 1919, Rate Comparisons 1897-1917 ; Union contracts 1917, 1918, 1920 ; personnel records 1918-1920 ; passenger survey 1914 ; Tariffs 1921
Blueprint of streetcar tracks, Broadway & San Pablo Ave.
Golden Gate Ferry tariffs 1922
Karfax 1920, 1921
Newspaper clippings
box 7, folder 6

Transportation: History of Transportation in California and East Bay

Scope and Contents

23 photos: Key System ferries Hayward, San Lendro and Fernwood ; Oakland RR trains ; South Pacific Coast RR trains ; South Pacific RR ticket office ; Unidentified group at 14th & Webster near South Pacific Coast locomotive 1882 ; Unidentified locomotives ; Broadway, 1854- photo of illustration.
Excerpts and notes from History of Alameda County
Letter from A.N. Towne to C. Rivers Wilson January 1895 re: California railroad history
Chronological history of incorporation of California railroad companies 1853-1899
California & Oregon RR Secretary to E.C. Wright, Treasurer of Pacific Improvement Co. re: value of old stocks November 1900
Maps of Southern Pacific Lines
Transcription from Southern Pacific Bulletin May 1920
photos of Oakland Daily Transcript articles from 1869
Newspaper clippings 1919-1924
Southern Pacific Bulletin March 1920
 

Photographs, Berkeley & Oakland

Scope and Contents

Old but in some cases later prints originally stored with nitrate negatives (which are not available but may be the subject of future digitization). More detailed notes are written on envelopes. There are multiple prints in some cases. Note: prints are extremely brittle and in some cases have already broken.
Some photographs present here were probably not taken or collected by Gardiner and were added to his collection later.
 

Berkeley

box 8, folder 1

Bancroft & Telegraph 1879

box 8, folder 1

47th & Telegraph 1888

box 8, folder 1

Broadway looking North from Moffitt & Blake Building 1884

box 8, folder 1

Broadway & Webster 1889

box 8, folder 1

14th & Brush East 1889

box 8, folder 1

14th & Brush West 1889

box 8, folder 1

17th & Grove 1889

box 8, folder 1

Tubbs Hotel 1889

box 8, folder 1

Planting of Lincoln Tree, Lincoln Square 1893

box 8, folder 1

Elmhurst Hotel 1895

box 8, folder 1

First MC Church 1913

box 8, folder 1

Taken from wharf (fragment) 1918

box 8, folder 1

Alcatraz, Fort Scott and US Transport dock from hills above old Exposition grounds, SF 1921

box 8, folder 1

PG&E building 1922

box 8, folder 1

Pairier Home 1925

box 8, folder 1

Views of New Line 1925

box 8, folder 1

Baseball team, Western & Central Districts 1926

box 8, folder 1

PG&E Substation, 51st & Shattuck 1926

box 8, folder 1

Courthouse site at 12th & Fallon 1934

box 8, folder 1

New Park St. Bridge Opening 1935

box 8, folder 1

38th & Grove showing highway construction 1935

box 8, folder 1

38th & Market highway construction 1935

box 8, folder 1

View from hill to the north of E.14th at Hayward 1935

box 8, folder 1

9th & Broadway

box 8, folder 1

11th & Broadway

box 8, folder 1

12th St. Dam and culvert

box 8, folder 1

49th & Telegraph. Dr. Prindle's Drug Store

box 8, folder 1

Berkeley Hills near 54th & Claremont from Carrosso's Observatory

box 8, folder 1

Hinlon House, 3855 Telegraph Ave.

box 8, folder 1

Piedmont Power Station

 

Oakland

box 8, folder 2

Sacred Heart Convent [published] 1868, 1893

box 8, folder 2

Broadway & San Pablo 1869

box 8, folder 2

Broadway & Telegraph 1869

box 8, folder 2

12th & Broadway 1869

box 8, folder 2

12th & Webster from College Tower 1869

box 8, folder 2

13th & Broadway from College Tower 1869

box 8, folder 2

14th & Alice towards hills 1869

box 8, folder 2

14th & Broadway towards San Pablo 1869

box 8, folder 2

14th & Franklin 1869

box 8, folder 2

14th & Harrison towards hills 1869

box 8, folder 2

12th & Broadway 1873

box 8, folder 2

12th & Broadway, SE Corner 1873

box 8, folder 2

From City Hall Tower down Washington 1878

box 8, folder 2

12th & Franklin 1881

box 8, folder 2

12th St., Masonic Temple 1887

box 8, folder 2

Allston from Shattuck 1888

box 8, folder 2

City Hall 1889

box 8, folder 2

First Presbyterian Church, 14th & Franklin 1889

box 8, folder 2

First M.E. Church, 14th & Clay 1889

box 8, folder 2

14th & Franklin from Masonic Temple 1889

box 8, folder 2

Washington from 9th 1889

box 8, folder 2

From Carrosso's Observatory

box 8, folder 2

From Masonic Temple

box 8, folder 2

9th & Broadway, SE Corner

box 8, folder 2

City Hall 1911

box 8, folder 2

12th St. Dam 1919

box 8, folder 2

Marshall Jofreys on his visit to Oakland 1922

box 8, folder 2

Oakland Town Hall, snow on hills 1922

box 8, folder 2

Washington School on Shattuck 1922

box 8, folder 2

Jefferson St. Extension from top of PG&E Building 1924

box 8, folder 2

Pasey Tube construction 1925

box 8, folder 2

5620 Telegraph (no negative, one print stamped Gardiner, photographer) 1932

box 8, folder 2

Old Alameda Co. Courthouse and Jail at E.14th & 19th Ave. 1934

box 8, folder 2

New Alameda Co. Courthouse 1935

box 8, folder 2

Bank of Savings, 12th & Broadway

box 8, folder 2

Broadway & Webster

box 8, folder 2

City Hall Square [published]

box 8, folder 2

Oakland Guard

box 8, folder 2

PG&E Station, 51st & Shattuck

box 8, folder 2

Rose Bowl (no negative)

box 8, folder 2

City Hall

box 8, folder 2

Washington St.

box 8, folder 3

Berkeley, University of California (17 enlargements)

box 8, folder 4

Oakland (23 enlargements) 1869-1873

box 8, folder 5

Oakland (9 views near City Hall)

box 8, folder 6

Oakland/East Bay (38 prints, most unidentified)

 

Oakland/East Bay, misc.

box 8, folder 7

Otis Johnson's parents

box 8, folder 7

Maps of Oakland business district, Ranchos, San Antonio Creek

box 8, folder 7

Piedmont. New High School 1922

box 8, folder 7

San Pablo Dam 1925

box 9, folder 11

Photographs, San Francisco

Scope and Contents

Cable cars ; Cliff House (first-third) Clay Street Railroad lithograph of eqpt.
 

Photographs, Transportation

 

Bridges

box 9, folder 1

Oakland Estuary Bridges: Harrison St. Bridge, Webster St. Bridge wreck

box 9, folder 2

Bay Bridge construction 1933-1936

box 9, folder 3

Carquinez Bridge construction ; Golden Gate Bridge construction 1935 ; Oregon Coast Highway Bridge over Rogue River, at Gold Beach

 

Ferries

box 9, folder 4

Ferries, Oakland Mole Terminal, Yerba Buena Island

box 9, folder 4

The Zone, Harbor Tug & Barge Company

Scope and Contents

This boat operated as a ferry when the Webster St. Bridge was out of commission.
 

Key System

box 9, folder 5

Employees 1915-1935

Scope and Contents

Key Route Trolley Tripper, Greek Theater July 14, 1911 ; Key System employees at Greek Theater October 8, 1915 ; Employee's Picnic, Neptune Beach, September 24, 1921 ; Posing for Life-Saving Poster, November 1922 ; Toi. Key Route cook July 31, 1922 ; Key System baseball team August 9, 1925 ; On Key Ferry "Yerba Buena" October 13, 1935 ; unidentified print & negative ; unidentified group portrait on boat
box 9, folder 6

Other 1925, 1934

Scope and Contents

Bus No. B-19, 1925 ; Public Service truck, 1925 ; Key System Building, May 1934
 

Railroads

box 9, folder 7

Central Pacific Railroad

Scope and Contents

Locomotives, building and early operation of CPRR, including winter track conditions, stations, railyards, empolyees. Copies of prints belonging to Stanley Keefe November 1930
box 9, folder 8

Other Locomotives

Scope and Contents

California Central Railroad, Lousiville & Nashville Railroad No 235 & No.1766 ; Sacramento Valley Railroad "Pioneer" ; San Francisco & Oakland Railroad "Liberty" ; Santa Cruz & Felton Railroad No. 1 "Santa Cruz" and No.2 "Felton" ; Southern Pacific "CP Huntington" ; Southern Pacific of New Mexico No. 19 ; unidentified, etc. "prints and copy negatives from glass plate negatives."
box 9, folder 9

Locomotives from D.L. Joslyn, gift of W.E. Gardiner

Scope and Contents

Atlantic & Gulf Railroad ; B&O Railroad ; Camden & Ambey Railroad ; Great Northern Railroad ; reproductions of lithographs
box 9, folder 10

Miscellaneous

Scope and Contents

Billy Jones and Jack Shriner of Mill Valley Railroad wih family, 1890. Copied from an old print by Dr. Pimble ; Stations/Depts: Haughton/Marysville 1960s ; Oakland, SPRR 1967 ; Sacramento SPRR 1862 ; Sacramento SVRR & CP depots 1871 ; unidentified railyards : Time schedules & advertisements: Cal Pacific RR and steamer New World, Vallejo Route ; Central and WEstern Pacific Railroad via Oakland ferry December 1869 ; CPRR extension of service to Cisco ; Central Southern and Cal. Pac. RR schedule May 1874 ; SF&SJ RRR ad, timetable August 1866 ; SPRR ad emigrant sleeping cars
box 9, folder 12

Ships

Separated Materials

Associated Oil Tanker ; "Gov. Ames" 1890 lith ; SS Diablo ; SS Everett ; SS Mei Ren ; SS Pres. Cleveland (old Golden State) ; unidentified, etc.
box 9, folder 13

Stagecoach 1935

Scope and Contents

print and enlargement of the Ben Halladay, 1868, taken during a parade
 

Street Railways

box 9, folder 14

Equipment

Scope and Contents

GE car equipment (motors, generators, controllers, rheostats, contactors, etc.) with description in accompanying letter from HA Esmann, Sales Agent of the General Electric Co. to Gardiner in March 1927.
box 9, folder 15

Oakland, Construction

Scope and Contents

road work including rail installation, paving of Telegraph Avenue, etc.
box 9, folder 16

Oakland, Employees

Scope and Contents

Employees and officers of various Oakland street railways, many identified
box 9, folder 17

Oakland, Streetcars

Scope and Contents

Oakland Railroad Co. "Bobtail Car" ; tracks of first line, 1869 ; Car No. 0, old horse car ; Car nos. 15, 51, 61 ; Oakland, San Leandro & Haywards Electric Railway sprinkler car 1895, Car No. 100, Flat car No. 103
box 9, folder 18

Oakland, Misc.

Scope and Contents

Alameda timetable c1899 ; Central Car station during strike of July 17-19, 1934 ; Elmhurst power station ; Elmhurst shops 1895 ; Oakland RR Co. stock subscription ; Oakland Station 1869 ; Oakland Traction Co. cable house, offices c.1904 ; Telegraph Ave. line schedules October 1911
box 9, folder 19

streetcar, Salt Lake City, Utah