Dr. Eugene Homer Brugge photograph album and scrapbook, circa 1940s-1950s

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Summary

Abstract:
Photographs and a scrapbook of railroads in the Bay Area, Eastern California, and Northern Oregon
Extent:
.333 Linear Feet 1 manuscript box
Language:
English .
Preferred citation:

[Identification of item], Dr. E. H. Brugge photograph album and scrapbook, MS 806, California State Railroad Museum Library & Archives, Sacramento, California.

Background

Scope and content:

Album 6 contains black-and-white photographs of Southern Pacific, Northwestern Pacific, Hammond Lumber Company, Western Pacific, McCloud River, Stockton, Terminal & Eastern, Quincy, Feather River, and Sierra railroads in the Bay Area, Eastern California, and Northern Oregon. Subjects include: steam locomotives, bridges, and passenger trains used on the Railway & Locomotive Historical Society excursions.

Album 7 includes magazine pages, color and black-and-white photographs in the Bay Area, Eastern California, and Northwest Nevada of steam locomotives, including some wrecks, freight trains, freight yards and the Southern Pacific Sacramento shops. Railroads include the Southern Pacific, Virginia & Truckee, Northwestern Pacific, and the Union Pacific. There is a Southern Pacific booklet on 3-cylinder locomotives in the scrapbook.

Biographical / historical:

Dr. Eugene Homer Brugge was born April 20, 1920, in Alameda, California to Johan George and Ester [Berg] Brugge.

Brugge graduated from Oakland Technical High School, attended U.C. Berkeley and graduated from St. Louis University Medical School in the combined medical and surgical field of ophthalmology. He served in the Army Medical Corps during WWII and was stationed in Tokyo, Japan during the occupation. After the war he opened his own practice in the Wakefield Building in downtown Oakland and served for many years as Chief Eye Surgeon at Highland Hospital.

Brugge was fascinated by all things technical and recalled the excitement of watching the building of the Golden Gate Bridge. He was enchanted by trains, telephones, clocks, pipe organs, ships, telescopes and cameras. He loved hiking through the state parks.

Brugge passed away on Aug. 21, 2010, and is buried in the Mountain View Cemetery in Oakland, Alameda County, California.

Acquisition information:
Gift of the Railway Locomotive Historical Society, Pacific Coast Chapter
Arrangement:

2 albums

Physical location:
Big Four Building
Rules or conventions:
Describing Archives: A Content Standard

Access and use

Restrictions:

Collection is open for research by appointment. Contact Library Staff

Terms of access:

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:

[Identification of item], Dr. E. H. Brugge photograph album and scrapbook, MS 806, California State Railroad Museum Library & Archives, Sacramento, California.

Location of this collection:
111 I Street
Sacramento, CA 95814, US
Contact:
(916) 323-8073
Library.CSRM@parks.ca.gov
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