Guide to the Randolph Brandt collection of photographs MSS.PHOTO.0535
Department of Special Collections and University Archives
2016
Green Library
557 Escondido Mall
Stanford 94305-6064
specialcollections@stanford.edu
Language of Material:
English
Contributing Institution:
Department of Special Collections and University Archives
Title: Randolph Brandt collection of photographs
source:
Brandt, Randolph
Identifier/Call Number: MSS.PHOTO.0535
Physical Description:
0.25 Linear Feet
(one half-box)
Date (inclusive): 1880-1930
Abstract: Approximately 60 prints collected by Randolph Brandt depicting transportation and other subjects in California, especially
railroads and street cars.
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Immediate Source of Acquisition
This collection was given to Stanford University, Special Collections by Rudolph Brandt.
Preferred Citation
[identification of item], Randolph Brandt collection of photographs (MSS PHOTO 0535). Dept. of Special Collections and University
Archives, Stanford University Libraries, Stanford, Calif.
Scope and Contents
Approximately 60 prints collected by Brandt depicting transportation and other subjects in California, especially railroads
and street cars. Brandt contributed many images to books and magazines on the history of railroards and the San Francisco
Bay Area, and the Western Neighborhoods Project's OpenSFHistory.org contains a large Emiliano Echeverria/Randolph Brandt Collection
(http://opensfhistory.org/Photoset/Echeverria-Brandt_Collection). He also donated some material to Stanford's Hopkins Transportation
Library, which this collection was probably part of at one time (some are stamped as such on the back). Other prints have
Brandt's personal stamp "Photo from Rudolph Brandt, San Francisco" while others have handwritten "R.C. Brandt 4/10/41." The
majority are good quality copy prints, with some perhaps as old as 1941, while others may be original.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Railroads -- California -- History.
California -- Description and travel -- Views.
Brandt, Randolph
box 1, folder 1
Housing [single family homes circa 1930s]
Scope and Contents
One photograph contains a street sign named Fleming which may refer to Fleming Street in San Leandro or Fleming Avenue in
Oakland or San Jose.
box 1, folder 3
Crissy Field [two men shake hands in front of U.S. Mail bi-plane, San Francisco]
1923
box 1, folder 4
Mountain View [billboard]
box 1, folder 6
Ferries [3 prints]
1905-1930
Scope and Contents
NP Ferry circa 1930 ; SP Ferry circa 1930 ; Original Key System [illeg.] ca.1905. Handwritten on versos is "R.C. Brandt 4/10/41"
box 1, folder 7
Taber - Steamer "Mariposa"
ca. 1900
box 1, folder 8
Street cars, San Diego [print & negative]
ca. 1885
box 1, folder 9
Street cars San Diego [two prints]
box 1, folder 10
Street railway - San Jose [3 prints, 1 negative]
ca. 1900
box 1, folder 11
Santa Cruz [pier] [2 prints]
1911, 1913
box 1, folder 12
Street cars, Santa Cruz [4 prints]
ca.1899 - 1920
box 1, folder 14
Ocean Shore Railway [8 prints with captions]
ca. 1911-1915
Scope and Contents
Pedro Valley, Moss Beach, Swanton, Davenport, Sharp Park
box 1, folder 15
San Francisco street cars [10 prints]
1880-1907
box 1, folder 16
Oakland, Antioch, Eastern interurban line
ca. 1918
box 1, folder 17
California - Nevada Railroad #3 at Bryant's Station, Contra Costa County
ca. 1900
box 1, folder 18
Union Lumber Co. California, Plaster City and Fort Bragg, 1914 [2 prints]
box 1, folder 19
Northwestern Pacific Railroad - Near Pt. Reyes, ca. 1920 ; Howard's Occidental Station, ca. 1911 [2 prints]
box 1, folder 20
Weaverville [aerial view]
1911
box 1, folder 22
Street Car, Nevada City
ca. 1920
box 1, folder 23
Plumas County, near Quincy Murphy Lumber Co. "Galloping Goose"
ca. 1925
box 1, folder 24
Colorado Silver City New Mexico Gilpin Tramway - 2 foot gauge
ca. 1912
