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STATION BUILDING PHOTOS: San Joaquin Division 1957 [Cover Title - Album of Original Photographs]
STATION BUILDING PHOTOS: San Joaquin Division 1957 [Cover Title - Album of Original Photographs]
An album of original photography documenting station buildings along the San Joaquin Division of the Southern Pacific Railroad through the southern half of California's Central Valley. The photographs begin with Muscatel (just north of Fresno) and proceed in a near continuous line south, around the southern edge of the Sierras then back to the north, ending at Keeler. All identified places include:
Muscatel, Fresno, Fowler, Selma, Kingsburg, Goshen, Tulare, Tipton, Pixley, Earlimart, Delano, McFarland, Famoso, Lerdo, Oil Junction, Bakersfield, Edison, Woodford, Tehachapi, Monolith, Mojave, Lancaster, Palmdale, Vincent, Ravenna, Lang, Humphreys, Clovis, Las Palmas, Friant, Sanger, Reedley, Dinuba, Ivanhoe, Exeter, Visalia, Lindsay, Strathmore, Porterville, Terra Bella, Ducor, Richgrove, Jovista, Hanford, Armona, Lemoore, Stratford, Huron, Coalinga, Segura, Buttonwillow, McKittrick, Taft, Di Giorgio, Arvin, Searles, Inyokern, Lone Pine, Owenyo, Laws, and Keeler.
A majority of views are approximately 5" x 4" with many panoramic composites of multiple prints hand placed together, redolent of Ed Ruscha's heralded photography of postwar California. Many places are scarcely photographed and unincorporated community stops long lost to time and desert elements. The present, neatly preserved and generously notated album provides a remarkable glimpse, one which singularly preserves a finite period of time along the SP's San Joaquin line during 1956-1957.
[Railroadiana] : [Architecture] : [Californiana]. STATION BUILDING PHOTOS: San Joaquin Division 1957 [Cover Title - Album of Original Photographs]. Various Places in California: (1956-1957). Handmade album, approximately 11" x 8 3/4." Plain card boards with cloth over spines and corners. Metal post binding at left margin. Ink title to front. 116 thin card leaves, each with black and white photographs (about 247 photographs total, some views panoramic composites of multiple prints) adhered to versos. Most with ink notations to page, a few with typed paper strips mounted below prints. Some toning to first leaf, overall uncommonly well preserved throughout. Very good.
An album of original photography documenting station buildings along the San Joaquin Division of the Southern Pacific Railroad through the southern half of California's Central Valley. The photographs begin with Muscatel (just north of Fresno) and proceed in a near continuous line south, around the southern edge of the Sierras then back to the north, ending at Keeler. All identified places include:
Muscatel, Fresno, Fowler, Selma, Kingsburg, Goshen, Tulare, Tipton, Pixley, Earlimart, Delano, McFarland, Famoso, Lerdo, Oil Junction, Bakersfield, Edison, Woodford, Tehachapi, Monolith, Mojave, Lancaster, Palmdale, Vincent, Ravenna, Lang, Humphreys, Clovis, Las Palmas, Friant, Sanger, Reedley, Dinuba, Ivanhoe, Exeter, Visalia, Lindsay, Strathmore, Porterville, Terra Bella, Ducor, Richgrove, Jovista, Hanford, Armona, Lemoore, Stratford, Huron, Coalinga, Segura, Buttonwillow, McKittrick, Taft, Di Giorgio, Arvin, Searles, Inyokern, Lone Pine, Owenyo, Laws, and Keeler.
A majority of views are approximately 5" x 4" with many panoramic composites of multiple prints hand placed together, redolent of Ed Ruscha's heralded photography of postwar California. Many places are scarcely photographed and unincorporated community stops long lost to time and desert elements. The present, neatly preserved and generously notated album provides a remarkable glimpse, one which singularly preserves a finite period of time along the SP's San Joaquin line during 1956-1957.
[Railroadiana] : [Architecture] : [Californiana]. STATION BUILDING PHOTOS: San Joaquin Division 1957 [Cover Title - Album of Original Photographs]. Various Places in California: (1956-1957). Handmade album, approximately 11" x 8 3/4." Plain card boards with cloth over spines and corners. Metal post binding at left margin. Ink title to front. 116 thin card leaves, each with black and white photographs (about 247 photographs total, some views panoramic composites of multiple prints) adhered to versos. Most with ink notations to page, a few with typed paper strips mounted below prints. Some toning to first leaf, overall uncommonly well preserved throughout. Very good.