Inventory of the Railroad Photograph Collection, ca. 1868-1914 The Newberry Library Roger and Julie Baskes Department of Special Collections 60 West Walton Street Chicago, Illinois 60610-7324 USA Phone: 312-255-3506 Fax: 312-255-3646 E-Mail: specialcolls@newberry.org URL: http://www.newberry.org Machine-readable finding aid encoded by Polly Smith, 2009. ©2009.

Administrative Information

Cite As

Railroad Photograph Collection, Midwest Manuscript Collection, Newberry Library.

Provenance

Union Pacific: donor unknown. Wisconsin collection: gift of Roberta Troup, 1974.

Processed by

Virginia Hay Smith, 2008.

Access

The Railroad Photograph Collection is open for research; the collection is available in the Special Collections Reading Room. (Priority III).

Ownership and Literary Rights

Railroad Photograph Collection are the physical property of the Newberry Library. Copyright may belong to the authors or their legal heirs or assigns. For permission to publish or reproduce any materials from this collection, contact the Roger and Julie Baskes Department of Special Collections.

Scope and Content of the Collection

Two small groups of railroad photographs. There are 15 mounted modern reproductions relating to the construction of the Union Pacific Railroad, including shots of the meeting with the Central Pacific line at Promontory, Utah, May 10, 1869. The second group of 34 snapshots and postcards shows railroad men, engines, cars, stations and wrecks, apparently taken in Wisconsin ca. 1913-1914.

Arranged in 2 folders.

Selected Search Terms

The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the Newberry Library's public catalog. Researchers desiring additional materials on a particular topic should search the catalog using these headings.

Names

• Union Pacific Railroad

Subjects

• Photographs -- 1868-1914
• Railroads -- Design and construction -- Photographs
• Railroads -- Wisconsin -- Photographs
• Steam locomotives -- Photographs