Name/Title
Album, PhotographEntry/Object ID
1957.284.0105Description
A black leatherette, three ring binder, used as a photograph album with some newspaper type clippings. Album has a small white sticker on upper spine with #27 in black ink, and inside cover has a small white sticker with 1943, 1944, H, UP Wrecks written on in in blue and black ink. Stamped in white under sticker is Favorite Loose Leaf Note Book brand. Measures 11 3/8" x 10, and is 1 1/2'" thick. Book contains both clippings and photos principally of Union Pacific area train wrecks as well as photos of area stations and yards, locomotives, and trains. Clipping page 1 shows Engine #29, at Rawlins, 1875 with the people identified standing around the engine. Other images: Charles Patnoe wreck, September 27, 1902; Ferris Shearing Pens, Ferris Station; Wreck at the Cut; 1912 railroad car with two unknown women; two pages of wreck in front of Larsen Hardware, 1923, engine #5003. Six pages of photos of Rawlins parade boosting motion picture "The Union Pacific," 1939. Local people identified as P.E. and W. W. Daley, Walt Lambertsen, Mrs. Ogburn, "Chicken" Pete Hansen, Dr. Thode. Other engines include: world's largest steam engine #4000; #393; #319 . #289 and #319 wreck in east yards, 1914. Union Pacific call board and "call girls" in offices, October 1943, Gladys Shelby and Mary Wise. Derailment at Wamsutter, February 28, 1948, 17 photographs; last seven pages show 15 photos of a "hot box" caused an east and a west bound train to crash taking the coal shute in the process, Carl Sallade was the engineer on the west bound train. Stories from 1875-1952; wrecks from 1902-1952. Book binder is in fair condition with splits in spine top and lower edges of front cover and top of back cover. Many inside pages have glue residue on them. Some soiling.Collection
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