Collection context
Summary
- Title:
- Lawrence George Beckett railroad passes
- Dates:
- 1904-1916
- Abstract:
- Railroad passes for Lawrence George Beckett, a telegraph operator and a traveling auditor for Northern Electric Railway.
- Extent:
- .167 Linear Feet 1 folder
- Language:
- English .
- Preferred citation:
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[Identification of item], Lawrence George Beckett Railroad Passes, MS 905, California State Railroad Museum Library & Archives, Sacramento, California.
Background
- Scope and content:
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Railroad passes for Lawrence George Beckett, a telegraph operator and a traveling auditor for Northern Electric Railway. Railroads Beckett traveled on include: Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe, Baltimore & Ohio, Butte County, California Traction , Cement, Tolenas & Tidewater, Manistea & North-Eastern, Michigan Central, Northern Electric, Oakland, Antioch & Eastern, Pennsylvania Lines, Pere Marquette, Southern Pacific, St. Louis, Iron Mountain & Southern, Quincy Western,and Western Pacific railroads.
- Biographical / historical:
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Lawrence George Beckett was a railroad telegraph operator circa 1904-1906. By 1911, he was a traveling auditor for Northern Electric Company.
- Acquisition information:
- Gift of Anne Beckett, 2009
- Arrangement:
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Small, single, spiral bound notebook with passes and tickets attached to each page
- Physical location:
- Statewide Museum Collections Center
- Rules or conventions:
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
Indexed terms
About this collection guide
- Date Encoded:
- This finding aid was produced using ArchivesSpace on 2025-09-24 22:07:59 +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 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 Library & Archives. 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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[Identification of item], Lawrence George Beckett Railroad Passes, MS 905, 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