Identity elements
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Name and location of repository
Level of description
Collection
Title
Delbert Jacobson Collection
Date(s)
Extent
45 boxes of documents and engineering drawings
Name of creator
Biographical history
Content and structure elements
Scope and content
The Delbert Jacobson Collection holds primarily engineering drawings. Subjects include Seattle's King Street Station and other Pacific Northwest facilities of both the Northern Pacific Railroad Company and the Great Northern Railway Company (U.S.). Materials cover much of the twentieth century.
System of arrangement
Conditions of access and use elements
Conditions governing access
Please see 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
Acquisition and appraisal elements
Custodial history
Ownership resides in the Pacific Northwest Railroad Archive
Immediate source of acquisition
Donor: Orange Empire Railway Museum. Documents were originally retreived from the trash outside Seattle's King Street Station by Delbert Jacobson and subsequently taken to California. Later donated to the Orange Empire Railway Museum, which subsequently transferred them to the Pacific Northwest Railroad Archive as not pertinent to Orange Empire Railway Museum's mission. Accrual W2010-03 received 11/12/2010. Accrual W2018-06 receieved 01/23/2018.
Appraisal, destruction and scheduling information
Accruals
W2010-03, W2018-06
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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
- Great Northern Railway Company (U.S.) (Subject)
- Northern Pacific Railroad Company (Subject)