Utah railroad collection
Collection
Identifier: ACCN 2973
Scope and Contents
The Utah railroad collection contains ephemeral materials that were created by various railroad companies within Utah and the West. The types of materials within the collection include locomotive operating manuals, historical information regarding railroads, timetables, ticket stubs, telegrams, labor union items, promotional booklets, stationary, calendars, and much more.
Dates
- 1868-2012
Conditions Governing Access
Twenty-four hour advanced notice encouraged. Materials must be used on-site. Access to parts of this collection may be restricted under provisions of state or federal law.
Conditions Governing Use
The library does not claim to control copyright for all materials in the collection. An individual depicted in a reproduction has privacy rights as outlined in Title 45 CFR, part 46 (Protection of Human Subjects). For further information, please review the J. Willard Marriott Library’s Use Agreement and Reproduction Request forms.
Extent
51.75 Linear Feet (31 Boxes)
Language of Materials
English
Abstract
The Utah railroad collection (1868-2012) contains ephemeral materials that were created by various railroad companies within Utah and the West. The types of materials within the collection include locomotive operating manuals, historical information regarding railroads, timetables, ticket stubs, telegrams, labor union items, promotional booklets, stationary, calendars, and much more.
Arrangement
This collection was arragned into the following series: I. General materials; II. General railroad history materials; III. Collected ephemeral materials; and IV. Oversize materials.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Purchased from Goreham Collectibles in 2016.
Separated Materials
Photographs were transferred to the Multimedia Division of Special Collections.
Processing Information
Processed by Betsey Welland in 2017.
- Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railroad Company -- Archives
- Bamberger Railroad Company -- Archives
- Bingham and Garfield Railway Company -- Archives
- Brochures
- Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers (U.S.) -- Archives
- Calendars
- Collective labor agreements
- Denver and Rio Grande Railroad Company -- Archives
- Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad Company -- Archives
- General Motors Corporation. Electro-Motive Division
- Handbooks and manuals
- Locomotive engineers -- Archives
- Locomotives -- Handbooks, manuals, etc
- Maps
- Menus
- Newspaper clippings
- Obituaries
- Operating manuals
- Personnel records
- Postcards
- Posters
- Promotional materials
- Railroads
- Railroads -- Employees -- Labor unions -- United States
- Railroads -- Labor unions -- United States -- Sources
- Railroads -- United States -- History
- Records (Documents)
- San Pedro, Los Angeles & Salt Lake Railroad Company -- Archives
- Scrapbooks
- Stationery
- Street-railroads -- Utah -- Sources
- Telegrams
- Ticket stubs
- Transportation
- Transportation timetables
- Union Pacific Railroad Company -- Archives
- Western Pacific Railroad Company -- Archives
- Title
- Inventory of the Utah railroad collection
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Finding aid created by Betsey Welland.
- Date
- 2017 (last modified: 2020)
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
- Language of description note
- Finding aid encoded in English.
Repository Details
Part of the J. Willard Marriott Library Special Collections Repository
Contact:
295 South 1500 East
Salt Lake City Utah 84112 United States
801-581-8863
special@library.utah.edu
295 South 1500 East
Salt Lake City Utah 84112 United States
801-581-8863
special@library.utah.edu