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Inventory of the Railroad Employees Photograph Album, circa 1920-1937
MS 76
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Title: Railroad Employees Photograph Album,
Date (inclusive): circa 1920-1937
Collection number: MS 76
Extent: 1 volume
Repository:
California State Railroad Museum Library
Sacramento, California 95814
Shelf location: Big Four Building or off-site storage. Please contact
the Library in advance of your visit.
Language:
English.
Gift of Shirlee J. Thompson, 1993
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 Senior
Curator. 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.
[Identification of item], Railroad Employees Photograph Album, MS 76, California State Railroad Museum Library, Sacramento,
California.
The collection consists of nearly 300 pages of black and white photographs (image size: 1-1/4 x 1-½ inches), with 24 images
pasted on each page) of male railroad employees, arranged alphabetically by the first letter of the surname, but not in precise
alphabetical order. Each photograph includes a date (possibly a hire date), a job title (brakeman, motorman, conductor), and
a geographical identification (regional or specific: Pasadena, Long Beach, Pomona). The men are not in uniform.
The album was compiled by the donor's father, Walter Bales, who worked for the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railroad, and Pacific
Electric. His tenure at the latter company was from the 1930s until his 1971 retirement. During the mid-1950s, Mr. Bales was
chairman of a regional chapter of the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen. A presumption as to the corporate affiliation of these
gentlemen is to the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen, or Pacific Electric.