Collection context
Summary
Background
- Scope and content:
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This scrap book has an embossed cover showing a bird sitting on a ladies hand. It contains newspaper clippings pasted on each page. There are a few unidentified family photographs. There are articles from San Francisco and East Bay newspapers about the Highland Park & Fruitvale Railway, the Oakland, San Leandro & Haywards Electric Railway, Risdon Iron Works and some articles about air brakes, conductors sleeping on the job, and the management of a Jim-Crow line.
- Acquisition information:
- Gift of Wallace W. Ripley, 2008
About this collection guide
- Date Prepared:
- 1892-1900
- Date Encoded:
- This finding aid was produced using Record Express for OAC5 on July 14, 2025, 2:55 p.m.
Access and use
- Restrictions:
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Open for research
- Terms of access:
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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 Librarian. 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:
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San Francisco / East Bay Area railroad scrapbook. California State Railroad Museum Library and Archives
- Location of this collection:
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111 I StreetSacramento, CA 95814, US
- Contact:
- (916) 323-8073