Identity elements
Reference code
Name and location of repository
Level of description
Collection
Title
Anonymous Collection
Date(s)
- 1891-2011 (Creation)
Extent
- 7 books
- 3 boxes
- 4 maps
- 1 photograph
- 5 videotapes
Name of creator
Biographical history
No information available.
Content and structure elements
Scope and content
The Annonymous Collection amalgamates materials from multiple donors and includes: Accrual W2011-14: 1 book of engineering drawings of Westinghouse #6 Engine and Tender (E.T.) Locomotive Brake Equipment and 1 book of engineering drawings of Westinghouse #8 E. T. Locomotive Brake Equipment, Accrual W2012-21: 1 book, "Steam Boilers" by E. M. Shealy, published by the University of Wisconsin in 1912, and 1 photograph, "Union Pacific Railroad Hangman Creek Trestle Spokane, Washington taken by Richard Hashagen. Accrual W2014-63: 1 box of newspaper clipping of advertisements for railroad travel. Accrual W2015-19: 1 water color by Howard Fogg. Accrual W2015-36: 4 maps of the Oregon Trunk Railway near Wishram, Washington, books on the Pullman Company, various railroad rule books. Accrual W2015-37: 5 VHS tapes on The Power of Milwaukee #261; The Best of 1985; Chicago Steam Celebration/ MILK #261; Union Pacific's 6900 Diesels; Riding the Rails, #4449, #261 Rebuild, Steamtown Grand Opening, The New Georgia Railroad. Accrual W2015-50: "Hillyard Drawings" of Great Northern Railway structures from the 1940's and 1950's. Accrual W2016-17: Great Northern, Nothern Pacific track profiles and plats in western Washington, Russell Company maps of Sedro-Woolley, Washington and Bellingham, Washington, and a Burlington Nothern system map. Accrual W2017-53: a topographical map of Butte, Montana from 1897. Accrual W2017-77: a Nothern Pacific demurrage from Prosser, Washington for 1941-1946, 3 maps of the Lester, Washington area, a book of electrical drawings for the Nothern Pacific's Lester, Washington headquarters. Accrual W2017-87: The Milwaukee Road Instruction Book for Class EP-2 Locomotives and a book "The Walschaert and Other Modern Radial Valve Gears for Locomotives", 1916, by W. W. Wood.
System of arrangement
Conditions of access and use elements
Conditions governing access
Please see Section VII of the Pacific Northwest Railroad Archive Collection Management Policy for further information.
Physical access
Technical access
Conditions governing reproduction
Please see the Pacific Northwest Railway Archives Reproduction Policy for further information.
Languages of the material
- English
Scripts of the material
- Latin
Language and script notes
Finding aids
Printed finding aids for some accruals in the "Annonymous" accession folder.
Acquisition and appraisal elements
Custodial history
Ownership resides in the Pacific Northwest Railroad Archive unless otherwise noted. Ownership of Accrual W2015-50 resides in the Great Northern Railway Historical Society.
Immediate source of acquisition
Donated by annonymous donors. Accrual W2011-04 received 11/29/2011. Accrual W2012-21 received 09/15/2012. Accrual W2014-63 received 09/2014. Accrual W2015-19 received 50/20/2015. Accrual W2015-36 received 09/01/2015. Accrual W2015-37 received 08/24/2015. Accrual W2015-50 received 01/01/2015. Accrual W2016-17 received 03/02/2016. Accrual W2017-53 received 07/08/2017. Accrual W2017-77 received 11/07/2017. Accrual W2017-87 received 11/01/2017.
Appraisal, destruction and scheduling information
Accruals
W2011-04, W2012-21, W2014-04, W2015-19, W2015-36, W2015-37, W2015-50, W2016-17, W2017-53, W2017-77, W2017-87, W2018-030, W2018-043, W2018-046, W2019-027, W2019-066, W2020-004, W2021-002, W2021-024
Related materials elements
Existence and location of originals
Existence and location of copies
Related archival materials
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Notes element
Specialized notes
Alternative identifier(s)
Description control element
Rules or conventions
Describing Archives - A Content Standard (DACS) 2nd Edition 2013
Sources used
Access points
Subject access points
Place access points
Name access points
- Burlington Northern Railroad Company (Subject)
- Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul, and Pacific Railroad Company (Subject)
- Great Northern Railway Company (U.S.) (Subject)
- Northern Pacific Railroad Company (Subject)
- Union Pacific Railroad Company (Subject)
- Other Railroads (Subject)