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Monorail Portable Railway drawings
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  • Descriptive Summary
  • Access
  • Publication Rights
  • Preferred Citation
  • Acquisition Information
  • Scope and Content of Collection
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  • Descriptive Summary

    Title: Monorail Portable Railway drawings
    Dates: ca. 1900-1979
    Collection Number: MS 85
    Creator/Collector: Monorail Portable Railway
    Extent: 1 linear foot
    Repository: California State Railroad Museum Library and Archives
    Sacramento, California 95814
    Abstract: 152 blue line on white paper / white line on blue paper drawings issued by or related to the Monorail Portable Railway Company, Chicago.
    Language of Material: English

    Access

    This collection is open for research at our off-site storage facility with one week's notice. Contact Library & Archives staff to arrange for access.

    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 Archivist. 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

    Monorail Portable Railway drawings. California State Railroad Museum Library and Archives

    Acquisition Information

    The collection was donated to the Chicago Historical Society, in the late 1970s, by Mrs. Alfred D. Dowrie, Jr. Gift of the Chicago Historical Society, 1994

    Scope and Content of Collection

    152 blue line on white paper / white line on blue paper drawings issued by or related to the Monorail Portable Railway Company, Chicago. Many of the drawings have descriptive information recorded in French. The drawings are arranged in drawing number order but they have not been individually catalogued.