%eadnotat; ]> PUBLIC "-//Stanford University::Libraries::Dept. of Special Collections::Manuscripts Division//TEXT (US::CSt::JL015::Southern Pacific Transportation Company Records)//EN" "jl015.sgm"Guide to the Southern Pacific Transportation Company Records, 1936-1954Department of Special Collections

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Text converted and initial EAD tagging provided by Apex Data Services, 1999 Sept. 25.Supplementary encoding and revision supplied by Steven Mandeville-Gamble.Finding aid is written in English.Guide to the Southern Pacific Transportation Company Records, 1936-1954Collection number: JL015Department of Special Collections and University Archives Stanford University Libraries Stanford, CaliforniaContact InformationDepartment of Special CollectionsGreen LibraryStanford University LibrariesStanford, CA 94305-6004 Phone: (650) 725-1022Email: speccoll@sulmail.stanford.eduURL: http://www-sul.stanford.edu/depts/spc/Processed by:Special Collections Staff (PW)Date Completed:1973 Sept. 6

Descriptive SummarySouthern Pacific Transportation Company Records, 1936-1954Special Collections JL015 Southern Pacific Transportation Company .5 linear ft. Stanford University. Libraries. Dept. of Special Collections and University Archives.Administrative InformationAccess Restrictions

None.

Publication Rights

Property rights reside with the repository. Literary rights reside with the creators of the documents or their heirs. To obtain permission to publish or reproduce, please contact the Public Services Librarian of the Dept. of Special Collections.

Provenance

Gift of Southern Pacific Transportation Company to the Jackson Library of Business, 1970. Transferred to the Department of Special Collections in 1979.

Preferred Citation:

[Identification of item] Southern Pacific Transportation Company Records, JL015, Dept. of Special Collections, Stanford University Libraries, Stanford, Calif.

Scope and Content

Collection includes Southern Pacific dispatcher's daily train sheets and correspondence, a memorandum and a map regarding the sheets. The sheets are a sampling from three stations (Los Angeles, Beaumont, and Mexicali, Baja).

Container List1“Correspondence and Daily Dispatcher's sheets”.

Correspondence and date re: Dispatcher's correspondence between Mr. David Myrick of the Treasury Dept. of the Southern Pacific Transportation Co., who sent the Dispatcher's sheets, and Ms. Marion Smith: a. letter to Ms. Smith 12/9/69 promising and identifying dispatches, b. 2nd letter to Ms. Smith 1/28/70 accompanying sheets, c. a five page memorandum “explaining purpose of Dispatcher's Train sheets, describing L.A. Division of Southern Pacific Co., and pointing out some changes in railroad operations in L.A. Division as reflected in Sheets”, d. map of L.A. Division (revised Jan. 1, 1954).

2Smaller bundle (14" × 25") - 59 daily sheets, dates: 1/14/1936 - 10/22/1954.3Larger bundle (22" × 25") - Dispatcher's daily sheets, dates: 1/23/1936 - 10/6/1952

Both bundles include records from three stations - L.A., Beaumont, and Mexicali, Baja.