Name/Title
Early Transportation ticket display, c. 1960sEntry/Object ID
2025.102.1Description
Acc. No. 25.102.1
Subject Category: Transportation
Date or Period: 1890-1930, 1960s
Object: Framed display with tickets, keys, photos
Description: A collection of objects dated between 1890 and 1906, except for one group from 1930 and photos of earlier scenes (one of the terminal on Pacific Ave of the San Francisco and Alameda Railway, one of a locomotive), with typed descriptive labels, in dark-stained oak frame. The objects include used or partially used transportation tickets and ticket booklets, marked S.P. Co. or Southern Pacific, 2 metal keys stamped 'S.P. Co. C.S', 2 photos, 2 Foreman's time card forms (one from 1925, one undated), and 2 passes dated 1906 labeled 'From the Alameda Camp of Refugees from San Francisco'.
Size: (frame:) H 35 x W 20 inches
History of Object: A display of donated tickets from the Southern Pacific Company, & their Suburban trains, (1930's), and two Foreman's time cards of John May, donated by various donors. The display was likely put together for the Alameda Museum. The Earthquake Camp passes have a label suggesting the passes to give access to San Francisco, but given the heading, could possibly have been passes to the refugee camps set up in Alameda.
Acquired from: among others, John May, Mattie Bacon, Bert Clark
