Descriptive Summary
Access
Publication Rights
Preferred Citation
Acquisition Information
Biography/Administrative History
Scope and Content of Collection
Indexing Terms
Descriptive Summary
Title: Colonel John B. Madden scrapbooks
Dates: May 1955 - Jun. 1958
Collection Number: MS 800
Creator/Collector:
Madden, Colonel John B.
Extent: 2 scrapbooks
Repository:
California State Railroad Museum Library and Archives
Sacramento, California 95814
Abstract: These two scrapbooks include photographs, tickets, and brochures relating to the Railway & Locomotive Historical Society 1955-1956
excursions.
Language of Material: English
Access
This collection is open for research
Publication Rights
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 Librarian. 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.
Preferred Citation
Colonel John B. Madden scrapbooks. California State Railroad Museum Library and Archives
Acquisition Information
Gift of the Railway & Locomotive Historical Society
Biography/Administrative History
Colonel John B. Madden was a member of the Railway & Locomotive Historical Society during the 1950s.
Scope and Content of Collection
These two scrapbooks include photographs, tickets, and brochures relating to the Railway & Locomotive Historical Society 1955-1956
excursions: the "Napa Valley Picnic", "Burney Gold Spike Special", "Centennial Excursion", and the "Week with Western steam".
Also includes the Pacific Railroad Society's excursion No. 96 to Guaymas, Sonora, Mexico in 1958. Also includes informatiion
about vacation trips to Knott's Berry Farm, Travel Town at Griffith Park in Los Angeles, and Disneyland. Incudes photographs
of Australian steam trains and locomotives taken by R. Brewer of Uralla, Auburn, New South Wales, Australia.
[Album 80, album 81]
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