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Pacific Coast travel journal
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  • Descriptive Summary
  • Access
  • Publication Rights
  • Preferred Citation
  • Acquisition Information
  • Scope and Content of Collection
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  • Descriptive Summary

    Title: Pacific Coast travel journal
    Dates: Jul. - Aug. 1909
    Collection Number: MS 770
    Creator/Collector:
    Extent: 1 album
    Repository: California State Railroad Museum Library and Archives
    Sacramento, California 95814
    Abstract: This album documents 1909 train trip from the Midwest to California.
    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 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

    Pacific Coast travel journal. California State Railroad Museum Library and Archives

    Scope and Content of Collection

    This album includes personal photographs of an unidentified woman on her train trip from the Midwest to California taken in July and August of 1909. The trip began in Chicago on the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway and continued through Missouri, Kansas, Colorado, New Mexico, Arizona, California and Nevada. Other railroads include the Yosemite Valley Railroad and the Southern Pacific. Includes photographs of the Grand Canyon, Yosemite and Mariposa Grove.