Guide to the Railway & Locomotive Historical Society's Claire England Slides MS 943
Library & Archives
California State Railroad Museum Library & Archives
2023
Contributing Institution:
California State Railroad Museum Library & Archives
Title: Railway & Locomotive Historical Society's Claire England slides
Identifier/Call Number: MS 943
Physical Description:
.25 Linear Feet
1 slide binder
Date (inclusive): 1939-1974
Abstract: Color slides taken by Claire England in San Francisco, Oakland, and Berkeley document city architecture, the construction
of the Grove-Shafter Freeway and the Bay Area Rapid Transit tracks circa 1969-1970. Also includes family photos and photographs
of steamships in Oakland and New York.
Physical Location: Statewide Museum Collections Center: I2.208.I7
Language of Material:
English
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Collection is open for research by appointment. Contact Library Staff.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
On loan from the Railway & Locomotive Historical Society.
Slides are grouped together loosely based on geographical location. Family photographs are grouped together, as are Oakland
Grove - Shafter freeway construction photos.
[Identification of item], Railway & Locomotive Historical Society's Claire England Negatives, MS 943, California State Railroad
Museum Library & Archives, Sacramento, California.
Color slides taken by Claire England in San Francisco, Oakland, and Berkeley document the construction of the Grove-Shafter
Freeway and the Bay Area Rapid Transit tracks circa 1969-1970. Also includes family photos from 1960 and a trip to New York
in 1949 and a trip to the New York Fair in 1967. While in New York, England took photos of steamships and in Oakland, she
photographed the "S.S. President Coolidge" a luxury steamship completed in 1931 and used as an Oakland troop ship between
December 1941 and when it was sunk in October 1942.
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
San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit District (Calif.) Express highwaysRailroad photographs
Dollar Steamship Lines