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Title: Railroad Manuscript Collection
Dates: 1889-1965
Collection Number: GC 1096
Creator/Collector:
Extent: (Boxes: 9 legal; 1 letter; 1 postcard; 1 ov; 1 ov folder)
Repository:
Seaver Center for Western History Research, Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County
Abstract: Publications, clippings, brochures, transfer tickets and other ephemera. Dated items begin at 1889. Includes street railways.
Primarily for Los Angeles County, but also includes San Francisco and Oakland, other U.S. railroad lines, and some foreign.
Language of Material: English
Research is by appointment only
Permission to publish, quote or reproduce must be secured from the repository and the copyright holder
Railroad Manuscript Collection. Seaver Center for Western History Research, Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County
Scope and Content of Collection
Publications, clippings, brochures, transfer tickets and other ephemera. Dated items begin at 1889. Includes street railways.
Primarily for Los Angeles County, but also includes San Francisco and Oakland, other U.S. railroad lines, and some foreign.
Noteworthy are Angels Flight cable car coupons, car blueprints for the Los Angeles Railway Company and C.P. Huntington model,
and a way-bill for the Los Angeles Cable Railway Company dated 1889.
See also: Timetable Collection, GC 1024.