Collection context
Summary
- Title:
- Southern Pacific's Tucson Division photograph album
- Dates:
- 1920-1923
- Creators:
- Southern Pacific Company
- Abstract:
- Extent:
- 1 album
- Language:
- Preferred citation:
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Southern Pacific's Tucson Division photograph album. California State Railroad Museum Library and Archives
Background
- Scope and content:
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Most of the photos in this album are of the right-of-way along the Tucson Division in Arizona showing meticulous track and ballast work. They depict the roadbed with slag ballast and white rock toe line. Subjects include: outfit cars along a siding west of Tucson, crossing under the El Paso & Southwestern, the west end of the double track at Stockham, AZ, paving the 6th Avenue crossing in Tucson in 1921, the Benson Bridge wash-out in 1922, Yuma and the Colorada River showing Junction City and Prison Hill and the Stein River Quarry. [Album 45]
About this collection guide
- Date Prepared:
- 1920-1923
- 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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This collection is 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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Southern Pacific's Tucson Division photograph album. 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