Photographs of street-railroads (cars and tracks) taken by or collected by Henry Dean Quinby III. The collection also includes postcards of street-cars, paper ephemera associated with street-railroads, and correspondence from other street-car enthusiasts.

Quinby was born in 1925, in Rochester, New York, the son of Alice Hamilton Onderdonk of Boston and Henry Dean Quinby Jr. of Rochester. He attended Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts, and graduated from Yale University in 1949. He was in the U.S. Navy from 1944-1946. At various points in his life he lived in New Hampshire, New Jersey, Connecticut, and Massachusetts. In March 1951, Quinby joined the engineering firm Parsons, Brinckerhoff, Hall & Macdonald (later Parsons, Brinckerhoff, Quade & Douglas) in San Francisco, California. There he worked as an assistant engineer and later as a principal transportation engineer. His projects included the design of the BART system for the Bay Area Rapid Transit District. In 1956, Quinby took a leave of absence to study and observe transportation planning and transit operations in twenty European countries. While at Parsons, he consulted on transportation projects in Chicago, Dayton (Ohio), and Hamilton (Ontario). Quinby worked for Parsons for 23 years ending on September 6, 1974. After he resigned from Parsons, he worked as Deputy General Manager for Operations and Administration of the San Francisco Municipal Railway (MUNI) until 1977 when he established his own consulting practice. Quinby was a member of the American Society of Civil Engineers and the Institute of Traffic Engineers, and was Assistant Head of ITE Department 6 in 1974. He also lectured for the Institute of Transportation Studies at U.C. Berkeley. Quinby bequeathed his professional library to the ITS Library at U.C. Berkeley.

ca. 4 linear ft. (5 document boxes, 4 print boxes)

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