Descriptive Summary
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Publication Rights
Preferred Citation
Acquisition Information
Biography/Administrative History
Scope and Content of Collection
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Descriptive Summary
Title: Virgil Blaine Brewer papers
Dates: 1919-1953
Collection Number: MS 631
Creator/Collector:
Brewer, Virgil Blaine
Extent: 1 box
Repository:
California State Railroad Museum Library and Archives
Sacramento, California 95814
Abstract: Time books and other working papers from the career of Southern Pacific fireman and locomotive engineer Virgil Blaine Brewer.
Language of Material: English
Access
This collection is open for research at our off-site storage facility with one week's notice. Contact Library & Archives
staff to arrange for access.
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 Capital District Collections Manager. 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
Virgil Blaine Brewer papers. California State Railroad Museum Library and Archives
Acquisition Information
Gift of Virgie Brewer Witte, 2000.
Biography/Administrative History
Virgil Blaine Brewer was a fireman and locomotive engineer for the San Joaquin Division of Southern Pacific Railroad and a
member of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Enginemen & Firemen’s Bakersfield California Mt. Whitney Lodge No. 139. He was born
on May 6, 1898 and began working for Southern Pacific in 1919.
Mr. Brewer, who died in 1952, had a wife, Katharine and a son, Joe.
Scope and Content of Collection
Includes: time books from 1937-1944, a Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen & Enginemen final withdrawal card for June 15, 1944,
a circular from the Grand Lodge, 1941, correspondence, employee deduction statements, receipts for union dues, a Railroad
Retirement Board change of beneficiary notice, study notes for enginemen's examination, a 1919 agreement with the Southern
Pacific Company about a pre-existing medical condition, SP circulars, and notices for enginemen. The time books may include
information such as date, location and time worked, class of service, amount earned and name of conductor or engineer.
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