Guide to the United Railroads of San Francisco records, 1866-1951 M0161

Processed by Special Collections staff; machine-readable finding aid created by Patricia White

Department of Special Collections and University Archives

1997; revised 2024

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Contributing Institution: Department of Special Collections and University Archives

Title: United Railroads of San Francisco records

Creator: United Railroads of San Francisco

Identifier/Call Number: M0161

Identifier/Call Number: 1261

Physical Description: 19 Linear Feet

Date (inclusive): 1866-1951

Language of Material: English .

Scope and Content

The collection includes record books, business and legal papers, financial papers, clippings, stock records, statistics, ledgers, and so forth, of the above railway companies. It also includes annual reports of the Municipal Railway Co. for the years 1949-50 and 1950-51.

There are gaps in the top-level container numbering system due to a re-housing project. For instance there is no top-level container 43 because volumes 42 and 43 are now in Box 42.

Historical Note

The United Railroads of San Francisco, as well as the Market Street Railway Company and the Municipal Railway Co., were all aggregations of smaller street railway lines that provided urban transportation for San Francisco. Among these street railways were the following: Sutter Sreet Railway Co., Sutro Railway Co., San Francisco & Alameda R.R. Co., and the South San Francisco Railroad and Power Co.

The United Railroads of San Francisco was organized in March, 1902, with authorized capital stock of 40 million dollars mostly owned by California Rail & Power Co. Because of its inability to pay matured indebtedness and interest on outstanding indebtedness, it sold out to Market Street Cable Railway Co. in 1921. In 1944, the Municipal Railway of San Francisco (Muni) bought the capital of the Market Street Railway Co.

Preferred Citation

[Identification of item] United Railroads of San Francisco records (M0161), Dept. of Special Collections, Stanford University Libraries, Stanford, Calif.

Provenance:

Found among the Hopkins Transportation Library manuscripts.

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Subjects and Indexing Terms

Transportation -- History -- California

Railroads

Trains

Sutter Street Railroad

Market Street Railway Co.

Sutro Railway Co.

South San Francisco Railroad and Power Co.

San Francisco Municipal Railway.

San Francisco Electric Railroad.

San Francisco and San Mateo Railway Co.

San Francisco and Alameda Railroad Co.

Series 1. United Railroads of San Francisco 386905

volume 1

Daily Records of Passenger Earnings 386973 Mar, 1907-September, 1907

volume 2

Daily Records of Passenger Earnings 386971 Oct, 1907-Mar, 1908

volume 3

Daily Records of Passenger Earnings 386969 Apr, 1908-September, 1908

volume 4

Daily Records of Passenger Earnings 386967 Oct, 1910-Mar, 1911

volume 5

Daily Records of Passenger Earnings 386965 Apr, 1911-September, 1911

volume 6

Daily Records of Passenger Earnings 386963 Oct, 1911-Mar, 1912

volume 7

Daily Records of Passenger Earnings 386961 Apr, 1912-September, 1912

volume 8

Daily Records of Passenger Earnings 386959 Oct, 1912-Mar, 1913

volume 9

Daily Records of Passenger Earnings 386957 Apr, 1913-September, 1913

volume 10

Daily Records of Passenger Earnings 386955 Oct, 1913-Apr, 1914

volume 11

Daily Records of Passenger Earnings 386953 Apr, 1914-September, 1914

volume 12

Daily Records of Passenger Earnings 386951 Oct, 1914-Mar, 1915

volume 13

Daily Records of Passenger Earnings 386949 Apr, 1915-September, 1915

volume 14

Daily Records of Passenger Earnings 386947 September, 1915-Dec, 1915

volume 15

Daily Records of Passenger Earnings 386945 July, 1916 -December, 1916,

volume 16

Daily Records of Passenger Earnings 386943 Jan, 1919-Jun, 1919

Box 17

Recapitulation 386941 1903-1920

Language of Material: English.

Box 18

Monthly record 386939 1903-1918

Language of Material: English.

volume 19

Daily Records of Passenger Earnings 386937 Jan, 1924-Jun, 1924

Box 20

Outstanding first preferred stock dividend warrants, series A - F, odd share certificates 386935

Language of Material: English.

Box 21

Outstanding first preferred stock dividend warrants, series A - X, 10 share certificates 386933

Language of Material: English.

volume 22

First preferred stock, # 1 - 250 386931

Box 23, Item 1

Common stock, # 1 - 250 386929

Box 23, Item 2

Plan for reorganization 386927 1916-1920

Box 23, Item 3

Lawyer's register of actions 386925 1908-1910

Box 23, Item 4

Register of (court) actions 386923 1910-1911

Box 23, Item 5

Diary of Court Actions 386921 1908

Box 23, folder 6

Ford King reminiscence of employment 386919 1904-1907

Box 24, folder 1

Legal files regarding damage suits (miscellaneous) 1906-1909

Box 24, folder 2

Legal files regarding damage suits (#102-116) 1906-1909

Box 24, folder 3

Legal files regarding damage suits (#117-133) 1906-1909

Box 24, folder 4

Legal files regarding damage suits (#134-149) 1906-1909

Box 24, folder 5

Legal files regarding damage suits (#150-159) 1906-1909

Box 25

Legal files regarding damage suits (#160-210, 341) 1906-1909

Box 26, Item 1

Diaries of Court Actions: Platform men entering and leaving service 386915 1908

Box 26, Item 2

Diaries of Court Actions: Platform men entering and leaving service 1911

Box 26, Item 3

Diaries of Court Actions: Platform men entering and leaving service 1916

Box 26, Item 4

Diaries of Court Actions: Platform men entering and leaving service 1917

Box 26, Item 5

Diaries of Court Actions: Platform men entering and leaving service 1919

Box 26, Item 6

Diaries of Court Actions: Platform men entering and leaving service 1920

Box 27, Item 1

Supplemental reports: Comparative general balance sheets and other financial information 1905-1906, 1911-1914

Box 27, Item 2

Supplemental Reports, earnings and other related financial information 386913 1906-1908

Box 27, folder 3

Loose stock certificates 1907-1909

Box 28

Clippings, strike of 1917 386911

Language of Material: English.

Box 29

U.R.R. of S.F. Time sheets October 24-October 31, 1908

Box 30

U.R.R. of S.F. Time sheets November 28-December 5, 1908

Box 31

U.R.R. of S.F. Time sheets 386909 December 12-December 26, 1908

Language of Material: English.

volume 32

(Engineer's) Report, part II, includes Market Street Railway Co., Sutter St. Railway Co., San Francisco and San Mateo Electric Railway Co., Sutro Railway Co., South San Francisco Railroad and Power Co., and other subsidiary companies. 386907 1905

Series 2. Market Street Railroad 386889

volume 33

Stock ledger 386903 1894-1899

volume 34

Stock ledger, A - L 386901 1900-1902

volume 35

Stock ledger, M - Z 386899 1900-1902

volume 36

Stock and Transfer book 386897 1893-1898

volume 37

Stock transfer book 386895 1899-1902

Box 72, volume 38

Legal diary 386893 1917

Box 72, volume 39

Legal diary 1918

Box 72, volume 40

Legal diary 1922

Box 41, Item 1

Market Street payroll 386891 1938 1942 1922-1942 1943

Box 41, Item 2

Report on Present Value

Box 41, Item 3

Report on Results of Operation

Box 41, Item 4

Tables & Charts re: Manpower and Service

Series 3. Sutter Street Railway Company 386883

Box 42, volume 42

Cash Journal 386887 1909-1924

Language of Material: English.

Box 42, volume 43

Vouchers entered 386885 1902

Language of Material: English.

Series 4. South San Francisco Railroad & Power Company 386877

Box 44, volume 44

Journal 386881 1904-1923

Language of Material: English.

Box 72, volume 45

Voucher records 386879 1904-1923

Series 5. San Francisco and Alameda Railroad Company 386873

volume 46

Journal 386875 1866-1868

Series 6. San Francisco Electric Railroad 386825

volume 47

Cash 386871 1909-1921

volume 48

Journal 386869 1909-1921

Box 44, volume 49

"PAY AS YOU ENTER" ledger (no further identification) 386867

Language of Material: English.

volume 50

Oversized volume. Samples of Southern Pacific stationary 386865

Box 51

Clipping book prepared by the staff of the U.R. of S.F; subject emphasis: the graft trials 386863 Apr, 1906-Aug, 1906

Language of Material: English.

Box 52

Clipping book prepared by the staff of the U.R. of S.F; subject emphasis: the graft trials 386861 Jan-Apr, 1907

Language of Material: English.

Box 53

Clipping book prepared by the staff of the U.R. of S.F; subject emphasis: the graft trials 386859 Jun-Sep ember, 1908

Language of Material: English.

volume 54

Clipping book prepared by the staff of the U.R. of S.F; subject emphasis: the graft trials: (on cover, "MISCELLLANEOUS") 386857 October -November, 1908

volume 55

Clipping book prepared by the staff of the U.R. of S.F; subject emphasis: the graft trials 386855 Mar-Nov, 1909

Box 56

Clipping book prepared by the staff of the U.R. of S.F; subject emphasis: the graft trials: (on cover, "MISCELLLANEOUS") 386853 Nov, 1909-Apr, 1910

Language of Material: English.

volume 57

Clipping book prepared by the staff of the U.R. of S.F; subject emphasis: the graft trials 386851 Jan-May, 1909

volume 58

Clipping book prepared by the staff of the U.R. of S.F; subject emphasis: the graft trials: (on cover, "Patrick Calhoun") 386849 March, 1909 -August, 1911

Box 59

Clipping book prepared by the staff of the U.R. of S.F; subject emphasis: the graft trials 386847 Apr-Nov, 1910

Language of Material: English.

volume 60

Clipping book prepared by the staff of the U.R. of S.F; subject emphasis: the graft trials 386845 Nov 1909-Jan, 1910

volume 61

Clipping book prepared by the staff of the U.R. of S.F; subject emphasis: the graft trials: (on cover, "Ford') 386843 October -November, 1909

volume 62

Clipping book prepared by the staff of the U.R. of S.F; subject emphasis: the graft trials 386841 Apr-Jun, 1910

Box 63

Clipping book prepared by the staff of the U.R. of S.F; subject emphasis: the graft trials 386839 July-September, 1910

Language of Material: English.

Box 64

Clipping book prepared by the staff of the U.R. of S.F; subject emphasis: the graft trials 386837 Feb-Mar, 1911

Language of Material: English.

Box 65

Clipping book prepared by the staff of the U.R. of S.F; subject emphasis: the graft trials 386835 Mar-Aug, 1911

Language of Material: English.

volume 66

Clipping book prepared by the staff of the U.R. of S.F; subject emphasis: the graft trials 386833 Sep ember-Nov, 1911

volume 67

Clipping book prepared by the staff of the U.R. of S.F; subject emphasis: the graft trials: (on cover, "Campaign of 1911") 386831 March -September, 1911

volume 68

Clipping book prepared by the staff of the U.R. of S.F; subject emphasis: the graft trials 386829 Jul, 1941-Jan, 1942

Box 69

Misc. Purchase & Job Order Book 386827 1907

Language of Material: English.

Series 7. Municipal Railway of San Francisco 386817

Box 70, folder 1

Extracts from Mott Survey 386823 1931

Box 70, folder 2

Annual Report of Municipal Railway Co., Fiscal Year Ended 386821 June 30, 1950

Box 70, folder 3

Annual Report of Municipal Railway Co., Fiscal Year Ended 386819 June 30, 1951

Series 8. United Railroads arbitration 386803

Box 70, folder 4

Transcript of Case Vol. 2. 386815

Box 71, folder 1

Transcript of Case Vol. 3. 386813

Box 71, folder 2

Transcript of Case Vol. 4. 386811

Box 71, folder 3

Transcript of Case Vol. 7. 386809

Box 71, folder 4

Transcript of Case Vol. 8. 386807

Box 72, volume 72

Transcript of Case Vol. 9. 386805