Charles Maslow Collection

Identity elements

Reference code

US WaBuPNRA D0023

Level of description

Collection

Title

Charles Maslow Collection

Date(s)

  • 1888-2011 (Creation)

Extent

45 boxes of railroad books and magazines, 6 boxes (~30,000) photographic slides

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Scope and content

The Charles Maslow Collection includes books on a wide variety of railroads and railroad topics from 1888 through 2000, railroad hobby and corporate magazines from 1947 through 2011, and some 30,000 photographic slides of railroad-related subjects worldwide.

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Conditions governing access

Please see Section VII of the Pacific Northwest Railroad Archive Collection Management Policy for further information.

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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

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Acquisition and appraisal elements

Custodial history

Ownership resides in the Pacific Northwest Railroad Archive

Immediate source of acquisition

Accrual W2012-17 donated by Charles Maslow, received 08/12/2012. Accrual W2017-51 donated by Lou Maslow, received 07/11/2017.

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Accruals

W2012-17, W2017-51

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Rules or conventions

Describing Archives - A Content Standard (DACS) 2nd Edition 2013

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