Deschutes Railroad Construction photograph album

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2020


Descriptive Summary

Title: Deschutes Railroad Construction photograph album
Dates: 1910-1911
Collection Number: MS 818
Creator/Collector: Deschutes Railroad
Extent: 1 album
Repository: California State Railroad Museum Library and Archives
Sacramento, California 95814
Abstract: This album shows the construction of the Deschutes River Canyon in Oregon between 1910 and 1911.
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

Deschutes Railroad Construction photograph album. California State Railroad Museum Library and Archives

Acquisition Information

Gift of Mrs. Chester (Geraldine) Larson, 1982

Scope and Content of Collection

This album shows the construction of the Deschutes River Canyon in Oregon between 1910 and 1911. There are photographs of railroad surveyors and surveying, campsites, and railroad construction. A note with the album says: 1 scrapbook of 115 black-and-white photographs. Property of donor's father George A. Raven, 1877-1961. George A. Raven and his brother, Walter S. Raven, 1881-1969, were both engineers working on the construction of the Deschutes Railroad, Oregon, 1910-1911. [Album 28]