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Inventory of the Robert H. McFarland Collection, 1911-1954
MS 51
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Title: Robert H. McFarland Collection,
Date (inclusive): 1911-1954
Collection number: MS 51
Creator:
McFarland, Robert H.
Extent: 1 document box
Repository:
California State Railroad Museum Library
Sacramento, California 95814
Shelf location: Big Four Building or off-site storage. Please contact
the Library in advance of your visit.
Language:
English.
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 Senior
Curator. 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.
[Identification of item], Robert H. McFarland Collection, MS 51, California State Railroad Museum Library, Sacramento, California.
The collection consists of letters to McFarland, primarily from other railroad aficionados, letters concerning the Railway
& Locomotive Historical Society, R&LHS Pacific Coast Chapter newsletters and announcements of excursions and miscellaneous
photograph lists (not McFarland images) and retirement and scrapping lists for Southern Pacific steam locomotives. Correspondents
include Charles E. Fisher, Gilbert H. Kneiss, David L. Joslyn, and Charles Smallwood.
Robert H. McFarland was a railroad enthusiast and photographer in the San Francisco Bay Area during the early and mid-twentieth
century. Prior to his death in 1954, he photographed Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe, Southern Pacific, Western Pacific, Northwestern
Pacific, and traction subjects, as well as maritime and city views.