Guide to the Hopkins Transportation Collection Photographs & Other Material M0234
Department of Special Collections and University Archives
2016 ; revised 2021-2024
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Department of Special Collections and University Archives
Title: Hopkins Transportation Collection photographs & other material
Identifier/Call Number: M0234
Identifier/Call Number: 959
Physical Description:
8 Linear Feet
(10 boxes)
Date (inclusive): 1870-1964 (inclusive), 1877-1943 (bulk)
Date (bulk): 1877-1943
Abstract: Ephemera and photographs concerning transportation, from various sources.
Language of Material:
English
Conditions Governing Access
Open for research. Note that material must be requested at least 36 hours in advance of intended use.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Received from various sources.
Preferred Citation
[Identification of item] Hopkins Transportation Collection Photographs & Other Material, M0234, Dept. of Special Collections,
Stanford Libraries, Stanford, Calif.
Related Materials
The former Hopkins Transportation Library has been subdivided into several smaller collections and cataloged items.
One may browse a list of various Hopkins-originated material here: https://searchworks.stanford.edu/catalog?q=%22Hopkins+Transportation+Library.%22&search_field=subject_terms
Guides to the main Hopkins Transportation collections:
Scope and Contents
Miscellaneous collection mostly containing original and reproduced photographic prints depicting railroads, street cars, airplanes,
automobiles, ships and other forms of transportation. Material was formerly part of Stanford's Hopkins Transportation Library.
Images are in a variety of formats - mounted and unmounted, albumen, copy prints, negatives, etc. Collection is not limited
to photographs (see Box 1 especially). Likewise, other Hopkins collections also contain photographs.
Of note are several albumen prints attributed to Alfred Hart's Central Pacific series (many of which appear to be variously
cropped versions of negatives), as well as large photographs of a Ladies Driving Club in England. There is also a memoir about
Lawrence Hargrave by A.E. Beriman, material relating to the Royal Aeronautical Society and The Early Birds of Aviation, and
a piece of original fabric from the Wright Brothers plane at Kitty Hawk. Also includes railroad stock certificates, the aviation
papers of Stanley H. Page, and other miscellaneous materials relating to transportation.
Conditions Governing Use
While Special Collections is the owner of the physical and digital items, permission to examine collection materials is not
an authorization to publish. These materials are made available for use in research, teaching, and private study. Any transmission
or reproduction beyond that allowed by fair use requires permission from the owners of rights, heir(s) or assigns. Some of
these materials are believed to be in the public domain. There are no restrictions on use of public domain materials.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Railroads -- History
Aeronautics -- History.
Automobiles -- History
Ships -- History
Series 1. Railroads & street cars
Box 1, folder 13
Stock certificates: railroad, shipping, etc. 312023
1877-1943
Scope and Contents note
Transfers and various sources. Includes Crocker, Huntington, other signatures.
1901 Oil Company (1901 Oil Company 312059
(1901)
Capay Valley Land Company 312057
(1918)
Central New York and Western Railroad Co. 312055
(1943)
Coal and products Co. 312053
(1909)
Colorado Steam Navigation Co. 312051
(1893)
El Verano Improvement Assoc. 312049
(1914, 1918)
El Verano Villa Assoc. 312047
(1920)
Fresno Land and Improvement Co. 312045
(1893)
Gravey Bar Dredging Co. 312043
(1910)
Ione Coal and Iron Co. 312041
(1890, 1893)
Oakland, Brooklyn and Fruitvale Rai-road Co. 312039
(1896)
Portland and Dambill Railroad Co. 312037
(1893)
Portland and Willamette Valley Railway Co. 312035
(1887)
San Lorenzo Flume and Transportation Co. 312033
(1877)
San Pedro Harbor, Dock, and Land Assoc. 312031
(1897)
Simmons Bar Dredging Co. 312029
(1911
Sonoma Valley Improvement Co. 312027
(1888, 1889, 1891)
Union Fuel Co. 312025
(1904, 1906)
Box 1, folder 14
Advertisement, Eades: Patent Differential Pulley Blocks, Sacramento, California. Huntington, Hopkins & Company 312019
September 1880
Box 1, folder 16
Gould-Huntington Contract 312015
Nov 26, 1881
Scope and Contents
El Paso, Texas (West) Track Agreement. Source: Hammon.
Box 1, folder 15
Pennsylvania Railroad: Ticket offices and depots of the Pennsylvania Railroad at Philadelphia. 312017
circa 1870
Container Summary: 2 page pamphlet.
Scope and Contents note
(Source: Hammon)
Box 1, folder 17
Pacific Coast Steamship & Central Pacific Railroad Co. & Southern Pacific Railroad Co. & South Pacific Company contract 312013
1 Feb 1877, 1 Feb 1885
Scope and Contents
Pacific Coast Steamship & Central Pacific Railroad Co. & Southern Pacific Railroad Co. & South Pacific Company: Pool Agreement
- original contract, and modifications. Source: Hammon.
Box 2, folder 1
Early train stations in California
Box 2, folder 2
Southern Pacific locomotives, gift of Mrs. Delmar Green
1948
Box 2, folder 3
Central Pacific Railroad - Alfred Hart paper prints + later negatives
Related Materials
While there is no original documentation, these photographs (approx. 36 4x3/4" thin paper prints) have been identified as
the work of Alfred Hart, staff photographer for the Central Pacific from 1864-1868. Some images match published stereoviews
by him. The majority depict trains, trestles, tracks, and mountain scenery. Several document the interiors of Pullman cars.
A few have writing on their verso. Many prints appear to be variously cropped versions of single negatives.
Stanford University Archives holds the Alfred A. Hart photographs, 1862-1869 (PC0002): http://searchworks.stanford.edu/view/4085081.
Box 2, folder 4
Central Pacific snow removal album by I.W. Taber copy negatives
Related Materials
The photo album itself is MSS PHOTO 407 "Central Pacific trans-Sierra line in winter : photograph album, 1890" (https://searchworks.stanford.edu/view/4084000)
Box 2, folder 5
Central Pacific Construction Deeth, Utah (Mt. Hallock in distance) Prospect Hill cut.
Box 2, folder 6
Central Pacific 3 Copy prints
Box 2, folder 7
Central Pacific 5 photos
1922
Box 2, folder 8
Union Pacific and Central Pacific copyprints
Box 2, folder 9
Western Pacific - locomotives
Box 2, folder 10
Baltimore, Ohio postcards
Box 2, folder 11
24 Postcard photos - mainly Baltimore, Ohio RR
Box 2, folder 13
Railroad - Molino, Monte Vista
Box 2, folder 14
California - Northern Electric Railway Co. 27 photos
1912
Box 2, folder 16
Rhode Island Locomotive Works 6 photos of engines
1881
Box 2, folder 17
Sutro Heights locomotives, later
Box 2, folder 18
Locomotives Colorado 6 color pictures
Box 2, folder 19
Locomotives. Great Britain postcards
Box 2, folder 22
Street Cars, San Francisco
Box 2, folder 23
Railroads - Los Angeles, 32 line car. Los Angeles. 33 Santa Monica Los Angeles. 34 Los Angeles, San Pedro
1890
Box 2, folder 24
Glass slides - copy negatives + prints
Box 2, folder 25
Eastern Bound Train Leaving Oakland Point - Houseworth [copy print]
1870s
Box 7, folder 1
Horsedrawn streetcars/buggies
Box 7, folder 7
Railroads
Scope and Contents
Copy prints from Loomis collection: Display of American Flag Across the Cut, Awaiting Approach of Presidential Train ; Colon-
Gang on Sewer Construction. ; crowd of people in front of train tunnel, unidentifed location
Box 8
Opening of the Ogden and Lucin cut-off, November 26th, 1903, by E.H. Farriman, President of the Southern Pacific Company
Scope and Contents
Large bound volume with twelve leaves of captioned photographic plates and five folded blue-prints. Edition number 706608.
Commemorates construction of railroad trestle across the Great Salt Lake in Utah.
Box 10, folder 3
Printed notice of the Yosemite Valley Railway Company, Merced County, California, Howard C. Bonsall, Trustee. Re bankruptcy.
Gift of the University of Nevada, Reno.
312003
February 10, 1937
Box 10, folder 2
The Oriental Limited - A Vision Realized poster published by Great Northern Railway
1925
Box 10, folder 3
Proclamation to convening California legislature to propose constitutional amendment to tax railroads
1884
Immediate Source of Acquisition
John Howell Books
Box 10, folder 3
Colonel Stuart Wortley prints of Patent Museum locomotives "Puffing Billy" & "The Rocket"
Box 10, folder 3
American Railroad Scene: Lightening Express Trains Leaving the Station Reprinted from Currier & Ives
Box 10, folder 3
Shasta, The Grand Old Mountain, Changes the Schedule on the Oregon Line (H. Nappenbach, The Wasp comic centerfold)
1890
Box 10, folder 3
The Presidents' Approval of the Master Car-Builders' Resolution at Minneapolis for the Abandonment of the Deadly Link and
Pin (de Grimm, Judge comic centerfold
1887
Box 10, folder 4
Clay Street Hill Railroad, San Francisco, California (large photograph)
Scope and Contents
View east on Clay Street near Jones Street in 1873. Andrew Hallidie stands on the trailer car on the right. Probably taken
by Carleton Watkins based on related his stereoviews.
Box 10, folder 5
Virginia and Truckee Railroad Company - Minutes of meetings, 1868-1875 ; list of stockholders/dividends
Existence and Location of Originals
Photocopies of originals in the Yerington Collection, Department of Special Collections, University of Nevada Library.
Box 10, folder 5
Virginia and Truckee Railroad Company poster (Railroadians of America 1945)
Box 10
Sierra Railway Company tickets, framed 312001
Box 1, folder 1
Airplane photos 312243
Scope and Contents
See also nitrate negative file and James Deitrick Papers - 140/1/14.
1. Stanford alumni: Floyd Merritt, J.E. Brick Elliott, Pat Ferris 312255
Jan, 1929
2. Stanford alumni, geologists, 312253
May, 1929
3. [Stanford alumni?]: Baker, Brandt, Schilder by a Douglas 0-32 312251
May-30
4. [Stanford alumni?] for Stanford Illustrated Review, 312249
May-30
5. Six magazine clippings 312247
Scope and Contents
[National Geographic?], reproducing 12 photos including Lindergh and his monoplane and Byrd and his plane America.
6. Roger's aereoplane photo 312245
1910
Scope and Contents
Part of the Roger's aeroplane (a photo of); the first to fly across the U.S., (and descriptive letter).
Box 1, folder 2
CAA photos 312241
1926-1946
Scope and Contents
Twenty 8 × 10 black and white photos; gift of the Civil Aeronautics Administration. Information is on the back of each photo.
Box 1, folder 3
French aviation postcards 312145
Scope and Contents
Gift of Hermann Knoche.
Sports-aviation series: 312187
6. Wright, Wilbur and plane 312239
21. Warflinger and single wing Antoinette IV (see 93) 312237
23. Dumont, Santos and plane 312235
25. Farman, Henri and plane 312233
30. Aeroplane Vuia (See 101) 312231
(May 1907)
33. Koecklin and plane 312229
43. Guilleband and plane in Rouen. 312227
51. Bonnet-LabrancheII 312225
54. Colonel Coddy's plane (See 103) 312221
60. Bleriot-&-Voisin and plane 312219
63. Equevilley's multiwing plane 312217
64. Glider of M. Belin fils. 312215
66. Gilbert and plane 312213
72. M. Santos-Dumont and plane 312211
76. M. Bleriot and plane La Libellule 312209
90. M. Henri Farman and triplane 312207
91. Delagrange airplane 312205
93. Single wing Antoinette IV (see 21) 312203
97. Single wing Esnault-Pelterce 312199
101. Vuia (see 30) 312195
102. Esnault-Pelterie 312193
103. English military plane of Colonel Cody (See 54) 312191
104. Flying machine of Laurence Lesh at Morris Park, New York. 312189
12. Wilbur Wright airplane 312185
13. Wilbur Wright airplane 312183
15. Delagrange airplane 312181
16. Delagrange airplane 312179
72. Sommer airplane 312177
80. Curtiss airplane 312175
81. Bleriot airplane 312173
83. Farman airplane 312171
84. Voisin airplane 312169
85. La Demoiselle de Santos Dumont (See #23 first series). 312167
Fetes de l'aviation 312159
[1] M. Latham dans le prix d'altitude 312163
[2] Bleriot's last flight one minute before burning 312161
64. Voisin airplane 312155
Italian post card: Ala Littoria 312147
Box 1, folder 4
Early Birds of Aviation 312143
1952-1964
Scope and Contents
Papers of the Early Birds of Aviation, Inc. Includes newsclippings, correspondence, photographs, membership lists, & pamphlets.
Gift of Stanley Page.
Box 1, folder 5
The Aero Manual First edition, Temple Press, Ltd., London 312141
1909
Scope and Contents
Gift of Stanley H. Page.
1. Flight to the North Pole, 24 August 1949, by Francis P. Farquhar and Garfield Merner. San Francisco, CA 312139
1950,
2. Two magazine clippings 312137
3. Aircraft Magazine, (frag.) 312135
Dec, 1911
4. Flying Magazine, Vol. III, No. 2. 312133
Mar, 1914
5. Army and Navy News Vol. V. No. 7. 312131
Jul, 1917
Box 1, folder 7
Aeronautical notebook 312125
Scope and Contents
Red letter days of aviation, (2 1/4 pp), and, Some well-known aeroplanes, ms. specifications accompanied by numerous ink line-drawings.
By William Lockwood Marsh.
Box 1, folder 8
Original fabric from Kitty Hawk Wright Flyer 312123
Scope and Contents
Gift of Lester D. Gardner. Accompanied by 2 pages of information.
Box 1, folder 9
Musee de l'Aeronautique photo postcards 312075
Scope and Contents
Gift of Col. W.Lockwood Marsh.
1. The Breguet of Henri Bregi 312121
2. Ader's third plane 312119
3. Ader's third plane 312117
4. H. & A. Dufaux's helicopter 312115
6. Angers' plane Rene GAsnier 312111
7. Henri Farman plane, built by the Voisin brothers. 312109
8. The gyroplane Louis Breguet 312107
9. The plane in which Bleriot crossed the Channel, pictured in the Conservatoire national des arts & metiers, Paris. 312105
11. The Paul Schmitt plane. 312101
12. Works of Colonel Ch. Renard in the musee de l'aeronautique, Meudon. 312099
13. Models of observation balloons in the musee de l'aeronautique. 312097
14. Airplane models, and Fabre's hydroplane, and Breguet & Caudron's planes, together in the musee de l'aeronautique, Meudon. 312095
15. Model of the dirigeable Zodiac. 312093
16. Model of the first balloon to make a successful voyage. (Made by Pilatre of Rozier and Arlandes, 312091
21 Nov 1783
17. Twin-winged Nieuport plane. 312089
18. Model of the Voisin twin-wing. 312087
19. Model of the Santos-Dumont. 312085
20. Vapor helicopter of Ponton of Amecourt. 312083
21. The Wright motor 312081
22. The Lorraine-Dietrich motor. 312079
23. The Renault motor. 312077
Box 1, folder 10
Lawrence Hargrave biography 312073
December 1923
Scope and Contents
Memoir by A.E. Berriman, 11 typed pages inc. bibliography. Hargrave invented the box kite as well as experimenting with flight
machines in general. Gift of Col. Marsh.
Box 1, folder 11
Incoming correspondence to Colonel W. Lockwood Marsh 312071
1921-1930
Scope and Contents note
Incoming correspondence to Colonel W. Lockwood Marsh from collectors and dealers in aeronautical materials. Gift of Col. W.L.
Marsh.
Includes a typewritten description of the G. Michelmore & Co. aeronautical collection, Aeronautica, the history of travel
by balloon, told in books, autographs, pictures, and engravings, 1670-1894. (19pp)
Also includes an excerpt sent by Roger Goodland of the Peabody Museum, An account of Nimrod's ascent towards the azure sky.
Box 1, folder 12
Miscellany from Col. W. Lockwood Marsh, Royal Aeronautical Society 312061
1. Programme to the garden party of the Royal Aeronautical Society, 312069
8-May-38
Container Summary: (72 pp inc. many pictures)
2. A History of British aeronautical periodicals, by C.G. Grey, in
Aeronautics, (pp 28-36)
312067
Apr, 1944
3. One flyer and one ad from
the Publishers' Circular for Marsh's book, Aeronautical prints and drawings.
312065
4. Dealer's list for aeronautical material from Librairie Paul Ritti, Paris, 312063
undated
Box 3, folder 13
Airplane Photographs - Aeronca Aircraft Corporation
Box 3, folder 14
American Airlines - Airglobe Magazine
1945
Box 3, folder 15
Airplane Photographs - Barnhart - Twin
Box 3, folder 16
Bell Aircraft Corporation Photographs
Box 3, folder 17
U.S. Army Air Corps Beechcraft Photographs
Box 3, folder 18-20
Consolidated Vultee Aircraft Corporation and Public Relations
Box 4, folder 1-6
Pictorial History of the Boeing Aircraft Company
Box 4, folder 7
The Capital Airline Airplane Photographs
Box 4, folder 9
U.S. Navy Blimp Photographs
Box 4, folder 10
Capitol Hill from the Army Air Corps Bombardment Planes photograph
Box 4, folder 11
U.S. Army Aircraft Photographs - United Aircraft Corporation
Box 4, folder 12
United Airlines School + College Service images etc.
Box 4, folder 13
Sikorsky Clipper
1928-1930
Box 4, folder 14
Sikorsky Clipper
1931-1936
Box 4, folder 16
Douglas Clipper
1937-1945
Box 4, folder 17
Consolidated Clipper
1930-1947
Box 4, folder 18
Lockhead Clipper
1934-1946
Box 5, folder 1
Palo Alto School of Aviation pamphlet
Box 5, folder 3
Army Photographs - Kellet Aircraft
Box 5, folder 4
U.S. Military Aircraft Photographs
Box 5, folder 6
Delta Airlines Aircraft Photographs
Box 9
Curtiss Aeroplanes photo album 312007
circa 1917
Scope and Contents
31 bound photos, some dated 1917, in bound volume measuring 32 cm × 25 cm. Includes planes, engines, G.H. Curtiss, John Willys,
factory, and assembly photos.
Box 10, folder 1
The Putnam Ledger, Unionville, Missouri. Account of voyage of the balloon `Cloud nymph' 311997
1875, Aug 10
Box 10, folder 1
The Early Birds 312011
Language of Material: English.
Scope and Contents
An organization of pioneers in aeronautics who flew solo before Dec. 17, 1916. 12 lithographs, reprinted from the Thompson
Products Aviation Calendar for 1956.
Box 10, folder 1
30th Anniversary Calendar for 1947 (Chance Vought Aircraft - Division of United Aircraft Corporation) 312009
Box 10, folder 1
Wichita Municipal Airport postcard (C.A. Tanner Co.)
Box 3, folder 1-3
Spooner + Wells Photos - Andy Albrecht Collection
Box 3, folder 5-6
Ladies Motor Club photographs
Box 3, folder 7-8
Mounted prints, J.W. Debenham
Box 3, folder 10
2 Negatives (Safety Film)
Box 3, folder 11
Gas Station Photograph
1925
Box 3, folder 12
Autos, Horses, and Harnessings - Ed Degner collection
Box 6, folder 1
Reproduction - Charles Sykes illustration of Rolls-Royce
Box 6, folder 2
Photograph - 3 Automobiles; "Mrs. J. O'Hara" Written on verso
Box 6, folder 3
Carriages Illustrations (Original)
Box 7, folder 6
Container shipping. Workers loading boxes
circa 1940s-1950s
Box 7, folder 3
Ships
Scope and Contents
Photographs and postcards depicting ships such as the Lyman Truman, Amelia, Robert Fulton, Commonwealth, City of Lowell, Priscilla,
Island Queen, Creole State, Empire State Ferry San Jose, and Lord Shaftesbury/Golden Gate as well as an unidentified shipwreck
and the San Francisco waterfront 1863, 1865, 1902. Photos from RJ Waters & Co., Behrman Collection, etc.
Box 7, folder 4
Shipping Lines Advertising Posters
Box 7, folder 5
Berkeley Harbor, etc.
circa late 30s-early 40s
Scope and Contents
"VM341 2pi PhotoFile" and some identifications written on back. Includes shots of Martindale, New St. Joseph, Exposition King,
Fishermen's Grotto.
Box 7, folder 8
unidentified portrait of young man in uniform [stamped Hopkins Transportation Library]
