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Clements family. Photographs from the Clement family documents relating to San Francisco cable cars.
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Title:
Photographs from the Clement family documents relating to San Francisco cable carsCreator/Contributor:
Clements family., creatorCreator/Contributor:
Flaglor, A. P. (Amasa Plummer)Abstract:
Includes photographic portraits taken in 1887 of students and faculty of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, believed
to be teachers and classmates of Russell Montague Clement; views of various cable cars, power houses and other railway subjects
in San Francisco, Oakland and elsewhere (including fragments of a photograph of a roundhouse mechanism, shelved in box in
ffALB); a tintype portrait of a couple who may be Lewis Meltzer Clement and his wife; views of Boston in the 1880s; view of
a road in Riverside, Calif.; and other subjects.
Date:
ca. 1880-ca. 1910 (issued)Subject:
n-us-ca -- n-us-maCable cars (Streetcars) -- California -- San Francisco -- Photographs
Railroads -- California -- Oakland -- Photographs
Railroads -- Photographs
Véhicules tractés par câble -- Californie -- San Francisco -- Photographies
Cable cars (Streetcars)
Railroads
Students
Universities and colleges -- Faculty
California -- Oakland
California -- San Francisco
Massachusetts Institute of Technology -- Faculty -- Portraits
Massachusetts Institute of Technology -- Students -- Portraits
Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Clement, L. M -- Portraits
Clement, L. M
Note:
Numerous photographers, including Amasa P. Flaglor (San Francisco) as well as many Boston-area portrait photographers of the
1880s.
Title and date devised by cataloger.
COLLECTION STORED, IN PART, OFF-SITE: Advance notice required for use.
Transferred from the Clement family documents relating to San Francisco cable cars (BANC MSS 2002/264).
Purchase; From Serendipity ; 2002.
Russell Montague Clement, son of L.M. Clement was an engineer for the Southern Pacific Railroad Co., the Pacific Improvement
Co. and the City Engineer for Oakland, Calif.
Lewis Metzler Clement was a railroad engineer for the Central Pacific Railroad and Southern Pacific Railroad. Projects included
working on a pass through the Sierra Nevada Mountains and cable car lines for the Market Street Cable Railway Co.
Type:
graphicPhotographs.
Portraits.
Portraits-Massachusetts-Boston.
Physical Description:
photoprint
2 box and 1 oversize folder (approximately 100 photographic prints) : 35 x 28 cm or smaller.
Language:
English
Origin:
Various placesCopyright Note:
COLLECTION STORED, IN PART, OFF-SITE: Advance notice required for use.