Archives for the CPRR
From: "Ethan Blue" ethan.blue@uwa.edu.au
I found your marvelous website, and have been searching through its masses of information! Incredible stuff!
I'm specifically trying to find correspondence between the CPRR and the federal government — specifically the Department of Labor and the immigration bureau — from the early 20th century. And really, between 1914 and 1945.
As some background, I’m researching the use of CPRR and Southern Pacific trains (as well as a bunch of others) as deportation trains in these years. I’ve read a great many sources kept by the Department of Labor, but have had trouble identifying archival collections that hold the rail companies perspectives.
Any recommendations on where these archives might be found would be very welcome. (I’ve done a quick search through the Southern Pacific records at Stanford University, but have so far come up short.) ...
—Ethan Blue, Senior Lecturer, History, University of Western Australia
Doing Time in the Depression: Everyday Life in Texas and California Prisons (New York University Press, 2012)
Engineering and War: Militarism, Ethics, Institutions, Alternatives. With Michael Levine and Dean Nieusma (Morgan and Claypool, 2013/2014)
I found your marvelous website, and have been searching through its masses of information! Incredible stuff!
I'm specifically trying to find correspondence between the CPRR and the federal government — specifically the Department of Labor and the immigration bureau — from the early 20th century. And really, between 1914 and 1945.
As some background, I’m researching the use of CPRR and Southern Pacific trains (as well as a bunch of others) as deportation trains in these years. I’ve read a great many sources kept by the Department of Labor, but have had trouble identifying archival collections that hold the rail companies perspectives.
Any recommendations on where these archives might be found would be very welcome. (I’ve done a quick search through the Southern Pacific records at Stanford University, but have so far come up short.) ...
—Ethan Blue, Senior Lecturer, History, University of Western Australia
Doing Time in the Depression: Everyday Life in Texas and California Prisons (New York University Press, 2012)
Engineering and War: Militarism, Ethics, Institutions, Alternatives. With Michael Levine and Dean Nieusma (Morgan and Claypool, 2013/2014)
posted from CPRR Discussion Group at 10:50 AM
1 Comments:
The California State Railroad Museum in Sacramento has many records; they have an online index, and the staff is helpful. The University of Texas, El Paso, also has some files from the SP in their special collections., including files from the local engineering department in the 1920's. If the SP had to file any reports or requests with the State of California, then the California State Archive or California State Library may have materials. It's probably worth poring through Stanford University's finding AIDS; they've got a varied set of materials.
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