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Guide to the Railroad Ephemera Collection
Wyles Mss 128
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Title: Railroad Ephemera Collection
Date (inclusive): ca. 1870s-1970s
Date (bulk): (bulk 1930s-1960s)
Collection number: Wyles Mss 128
Extent: .8 linear feet (2 document boxes)
Repository: University of California, Santa Barbara. Library. Department of Special Collections
Santa Barbara, California 93106-9010
Physical location: Del Sur
Language of Material: Collection materials in English
None.
Copyright has not been assigned to the Department of Special Collections, UCSB. All requests for permission to publish or
quote from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the Head of Special Collections. Permission for publication is given
on behalf of the Department of Special Collections as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply
permission of the copyright holder, which also must be obtained.
Railroad Ephemera Collection. Wyles Mss 128. Department of Special Collections, Davidson Library, University of California,
Santa Barbara.
Purchase, 2004.
Scope and Content of Collection
The collection contains a variety of ephemeral items relating mainly to railroad companies, but also some bus and other transportation
companies. Included in the collection are passenger tickets, railroad forms, transfer tickets, bond coupons, baggage claim
checks, company passes, time cards, service pins, tokens, dining car napkins, cancelled paychecks, postcards, and reports.
More than 70 companies from all regions of the U.S. and Canada are represented.