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The Helen Hinckley (Jones) Photograph Collection

 Collection
Identifier: P-008

Abstract

This collection contains photographs that were used in Helen Hinckley Jones's book, Rails From the West, depicting the early railroad days in California.

Dates

  • Creation: 1845 - 1890

Extent

1 Boxes

Language of Materials

English

Arrangement

FD 1 1884 Sacramento Valley Railroad map

FD 2 1863 Sacramento Valley Railroad time schedule and map

FD 3 Sacramento Valley Railroad time schedule

FD 4 Huntington and Hopkins Hardware

FD 5 Mural of the groundbreaking ceremony in the Southern Pacific Railroad Station

FD 6 Sacramento Foundry

FD 7 Grave site of Theodore and Anna F. Judah

FD 8 Judah family grave site

FD 9 Cornell Ranch and residence

FD 10 Sacramento 1849; hotel, theater, business establishment

FD 11 Photograph of Anna Judah

FD 12 Sacramento ā€œJā€ Street in the 1800s

FD 13 St. James Episcopal Church in Sacramento where Theodore and Anna Judah were married

FD 14 Donnor Lake and snow shed

FD 15 Wholesale grocery store by the tracks of the Southern and Central Pacific Railroads

FD 16 Dutch Flat where the reconnaissance of the Central Pacific Railroad was begun

FD 17 Rugged Sierra Mountain Road- building of the Southern Pacific Railroad

FD 18 Railroad car home of Strobridge, Superintendent of the construction of the Southern Pacific Railroad

FD 19 Chinese railroad camp of the Central Pacific Railroad

FD 20 Pamphlet warning public against the railroad

FD 21 Sacramento Valley Railroad final trip

FD 22 L. L. Robinson locomotive of the Sacramento Valley Railroad

FD 23 Photograph of Theodore Judah

FD 24 Photograph of Anna Judah

FD 25 Photograph of Strobridge, Superintendent of the Southern Pacific Railroad

FD 26 A. A. Sargent, prominent figure in the Railroad Act of 1862

FD 27 Mark Hopkins, Sacramento merchant

Language of description
English
Script of description
Latin

Repository Details

Part of the WSU Stewart Library Special Collections Repository

Contact:
3921 Central Campus Drive Dept 2901
Ogden UT 84408