Collection context
Summary
- Title:
- Claire England slides
- Dates:
- 1939-1974
- Abstract:
- Color slides taken by Claire England in San Francisco, Oakland, and Berkeley document city architecture, the construction of the Grove-Shafter Freeway and the Bay Area Rapid Transit tracks circa 1969-1970. Also includes family photos and photographs of steamships in Oakland and New York.
- Extent:
- .25 Linear Feet 1 slide binder
- Language:
- English .
- Preferred citation:
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[Identification of item], Claire England Slides, MS 943, California State Railroad Museum Library & Archives, Sacramento, California.
Background
- Scope and content:
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Color slides taken by Claire England in San Francisco, Oakland, and Berkeley document the construction of the Grove-Shafter Freeway and the Bay Area Rapid Transit tracks circa 1969-1970. Also includes family photos from 1960 and a trip to New York in 1949 and a trip to the New York Fair in 1967. While in New York, England took photos of steamships and in Oakland, she photographed the "S.S. President Coolidge" a luxury steamship completed in 1931 and used as an Oakland troop ship between December 1941 and when it was sunk in October 1942.
- Acquisition information:
- On loan from the Railway Locomotive Historical Society.
- Arrangement:
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Slides are grouped together loosely based on geographical location. Family photographs are grouped together, as are Oakland Grove - Shafter freeway construction photos.
- Physical location:
- Statewide Museum Collections Center
- Rules or conventions:
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
Indexed terms
- Subjects:
- Railroad photographs
About this collection guide
- Date Encoded:
- This finding aid was produced using ArchivesSpace on 2025-12-01 23:45:47 +0000 .
Access and use
- Restrictions:
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Collection is open for research by appointment. Contact Library Staff.
- Terms of access:
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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 Library & Archives. 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:
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[Identification of item], Claire England Slides, MS 943, California State Railroad Museum Library & Archives, Sacramento, California.
- Location of this collection:
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111 I StreetSacramento, CA 95814, US
- Contact:
- (916) 323-8073