Great Northern Railway Company (U.S.) materials

GN #3011 GP30 parked in yard at Mukilteo GN #697 GP9 parked in GN yard at Spokane

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US WaBuPNRA D0111-003

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Great Northern Railway Company (U.S.) materials

Date(s)

  • 1966-1973 (Creation)

Extent

401 35mm slides

Name of creator

(1949-2013)

Biographical history

Daniel R. Perkins was born in South Bend, Washington to Paul and Eva Ford Perkins. He worked for the Burlington Northern, later in real estate investing. He moved to Eugene, Oregon and married Betty Brown in 1980.

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Scope and content

Great Northern Railway photographs taken between 1967 and 1973 in the Pacific Northwest.

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Conditions governing access

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

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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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Custodial history

Ownership resides with the Pacific Northwest Railroad Archive

Immediate source of acquisition

Donated by Betty Perkins, executrix of the Dan Perkins estate. Accrual W2014-45 received 10/18/2014, delivered by Mike Butterfield.

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Existence and location of originals

Originals at Pacific Northwest Railroad Archive, Burien, Washington.

Existence and location of copies

Digital copies at http://pnrarchive.org/

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

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