Historical Portrait

[Group portrait of Southern Pacific Railroad employees at Roseville]

1922·Source: internet_archive·View original ↗·Public Domain

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Historical group portrait of Southern Pacific Railroad roundhouse and shop department heads at Roseville, California, November 1922. Public domain photograph.

About this photograph

A group photograph of Southern Pacific Railroad roundhouse and shop department heads at Roseville, California, taken in November 1922. The photographer is not identified.

Roseville became a major Southern Pacific facility with extensive repair and maintenance operations. The roundhouse and shop departments would have overseen locomotive servicing, repairs, and the work of various skilled trades. Department heads coordinated these technical operations and managed the workforce required to keep locomotives running.

The photograph documents the supervisory structure at this railroad center during the early 1920s. Such formal group portraits of management were common practice at industrial sites of the period, recording the organizational hierarchy at a particular moment.

This photograph is held by the Internet Archive as part of material from the California State Railroad Museum. It reached the archive through California Revealed, a statewide programme that digitises holdings from California libraries, archives, museums and historical societies and makes them publicly available.

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