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Title: San Francisco / East Bay Area railroad scrapbook
Dates: 1892-1900
Collection Number: MS 842
Creator/Collector:
Extent: .33 linear feet
Repository:
California State Railroad Museum Library and Archives
Sacramento, California 95814
Abstract: This scrapbook contains articles from San Francisco and Bay Area newspapers about railroad history.
Language of Material: English
Open for research
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.
San Francisco / East Bay Area railroad scrapbook. California State Railroad Museum Library and Archives
Gift of Wallace W. Ripley, 2008
Scope and Content of Collection
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.