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Register of the Middlebrook Photographs of San Diego & Arizona Railway Locomotives
MSS 438
MSS 438
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Description
The Middlebrook Photographs of San Diego & Arizona Railway Locomotives is comprised of black & white negatives and gelatin
silver prints from 1910-1948. The collection documents the San Diego & Arizona Railway and includes images of locomotive engines,
railcars, rail workers, and track scenes.
Background
R.P. Middlebrook worked as a locomotive engineer for the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway (AT&SF). Because of his interest
in trains, he photographed, wrote about, and collected materials related to locomotives and railroad history. Several of Middlebrook's
articles were published in the
The Journal of San Diego History.
Extent
0.2 Linear feet
(one archives box)