Collection context
Summary
- Title:
- Atlantic and Pacific Railroad records
- Dates:
- 1887 - 1893
- Abstract:
- Includes two letterpress books of land department records and an invoice for ties.
- Extent:
- 1.5 Linear Feet 1889 - 1893: 1 oversize box; 1887 - 1888: 1 half box
- Language:
- English
- Preferred citation:
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[Identification of item], Atlantic and Pacific Railroad Records, MS 491, California State Railroad Museum Library & Archives, Sacramento, California.
Background
- Scope and content:
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Includes two letterpress books of land department records and an invoice for ties. One of the letterpress books contain copies of letters issued by J.W. Donnelly, Land Agent in Albuquerque, New Mexico, and C.H. Fancher, General Land Agent for Albuquerque. The other letterpress book contains copies of letters issued by J. W. Donnelly as Chief Clerk and J. A. Williamson as Land Commissioner. A copy of a report retained by H.C. Nutt, President of the Atlantic and Pacific Railroad "on the condition and state of repair of the Southern Pacific Railroad from Mojave Station to the Colorado River (near Needles Station) was written by Santa Fe engineers Albert Alfonzo Robinson, James Dun, and Southern Pacific chief engineer George Edward Gray.
- Biographical / historical:
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The Atlantic and Pacific Railroad Company was incorporated on July 27, 1866. Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railroad Company and the St. Louis & San Francisco Railway Company joined in a partnership in 1879 to build the western section of the Atlantic & Pacific Railroad Company under the original charter, from south of Albuquerque, New Mexico Territory, to San Francisco and other California points on the 35th Parallel Route.
In 1895, it was forced into receivership. In 1879, an agreement between the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railroad, St. Louis & San Francisco Railroad Company and the Atlantic & Pacific arranged for the building of a transcontinental railroad under the initial Atlantic & Pacific charter. Through passenger service from the east began October 21, 1883.
In 1895, at the time that the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway Company was chartered, the Atlantic & Pacific was retained, foreclosed and reorganized as the Santa Fe Pacific Railroad.
- Acquisition information:
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Land Department records and invoice, gift of Robert Krave, 2001.
Report was a gift of Jeff Asay, in 2024 and it came from the Manuscripts Department of the Kansas State Historical Society.
- Physical location:
- Statewide Museum Collection Center
- Rules or conventions:
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Bibliography:
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For additional information, see Keith L. Bryant, Jr. History of the Atchison, Topkea and Santa Fe Railway (New York: MacMillan, 1974).
Indexed terms
- Subjects:
- Letterpress printing
About this collection guide
- Date Encoded:
- This finding aid was produced using ArchivesSpace on 2026-04-06 16:56:27 +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 been assigned to the California State Railroad Museum. Permission for publication must be submitted in writing to the CSRM Library & Archives.
- Preferred citation:
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[Identification of item], Atlantic and Pacific Railroad Records, MS 491, 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