Railroad Publications from the United States, Mexico, and Panama Collection, 1870-1900
Collection context
Summary
- Title:
- Collection of Railroad Publications from the United States, Mexico, and Panama,
- Dates:
- 1870-1900
- Extent:
- 7 boxes (3.5 linear ft.) 2 oversize boxes
- Language:
- English.
- Preferred citation:
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[Identification of item], Collection of Railroad Publications from the United States, Mexico, and Panama (Collection 289). Department of Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library, University of California, Los Angeles.
Background
- Scope and content:
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Collection contains mostly railroad company annual reports, as well as various company legal and financial information. Contains a small section on the Tehuantepec Isthmus, and many route maps covering each company's territory. Companies represented in the collection include: Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad Company, Atlantic and Pacific Railroad Company, Denver and Rio Grande Railroad Company, Kansas Pacific Railway, Mexican Central Railway, Mexican International Railroad Company, Mexican National Railroad Company, Missouri Pacific Railway Company, Northern Pacific Railroad Company, Northern Pacific Terminal Company of Oregon, Oregon Improvement Company, Oregon Pacific Railroad Company, Oregon Railroad and Navigation Company, Oregon Short Line Railroad Company, Oregon and Transcontinental Company, Pacific Railroads, Panama Railroad Company, Santa Fe, Prescott and Phoenix Railway Company, Sonora Railway Company, Limited, Southern Pacific Company, Southern Pacific Railroad Company, St. Louis and San Francisco Railroad Company, St. Louis and San Francisco Railway Company, Tehuantepec Railroad, Tehuantepec Railway and Ship Canal, Tehuantepec Ship-Railway, Texas and Pacific Railway Company, and Union Pacific Railway Company.
- Physical location:
- Stored off-site at SRLF. Advance notice is required for access to the collection. Please contact the UCLA Library, Department of Special Collections Reference Desk for paging information.
Indexed terms
About this collection guide
- Date Prepared:
- © 1999
- Date Encoded:
- Machine-readable finding aid derived from database containing container list structure and data, encoding added via MS Access or other database program, unknown year . Frontmatter gathered from MARC record. Supplementary encoding and revision supplied by Caroline Cubé.
Access and use
- Restrictions:
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COLLECTION STORED OFF-SITE AT SRLF: Advance notice required for access.
- Terms of access:
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Property rights to the physical object belong to the UCLA Library, Department of Special Collections. Literary rights, including copyright, are retained by the creators and their heirs. It is the responsibility of the researcher to determine who holds the copyright and pursue the copyright owner or his or her heir for permission to publish where The UC Regents do not hold the copyright.
- Preferred citation:
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[Identification of item], Collection of Railroad Publications from the United States, Mexico, and Panama (Collection 289). Department of Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library, University of California, Los Angeles.
- Location of this collection:
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A1713 Charles E. Young Research LibraryBox 951575Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575, US
- Contact:
- (310) 825-4988