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Please send all postal mail to our PO BOX!
P.O. Box 601105 Sacramento, CA 95860-1105
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P.O. Box 601105 Sacramento, CA 95860-1105
The Pacific Bus Museum has an extensive collection of photographs and negatives from the Crown Corporation. Additionally we have lots of other, non-Crown, photographs spread among our Robert Burrows Operation/Builder files and other Archives.
This lookup was initially built to only search Crown Photos, but it is being expanded… bear with us as we get this all working properly.
The Crown and other photos are not all organized/numbered in the same ways, so we are still working out how best to catalog/index/digitize and share these. This lookup tool was based on the Crown Dick Whittington and Warren Bowen ###-###-## image numbering system.
This page provides a searchable lookup of our Bus Photos.
Rainbow Tours Fleet 9/1977 |
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Bowen – 100-434-1 Rainbow Tours Fleet 9/1977-mark
   
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US Army White Sands |
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Bowen – 100-429-1 US Army White Sands right front 7/21/1977-mark
 
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Mescalero Apache Tribe |
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Bowen – 100-410-2 Mescalero Apache right front 12/1974-mark
 
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AudioVoice Intercom / AM Radio |
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AudioVoice Intercom 8/10/1964
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1961 Flxible |
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Bowen – 100-161-1 Flxible 1961
  
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Roesch Lines #412 1962 |
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Roesch Lines #412 1962
 
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GMC TD-3602 San Mateo Burlingame Transit |
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A. C. Byod( Byrd?) – MC.997.06 GMC TD-3602 San Mateo Burlingame Transit 2/1/1955
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Emergency Marker Lights |
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Whittington – 98-68-2 Emergency Marker Lights
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Boise Winnemucca Fleet and Repairs |
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Various collections of Boise Winnemucca fleet and subsequent repairs
         
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Simi Valley USD Fleet |
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Simi Valley USD Fleet 1968 (LM C16)
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Moses Lake School District Fleet |
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Moses Lake School District Fleet
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Lompoc Unified fleet |
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Lompoc Unified fleet June 1972 (LM C13-P14)
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4-Bus Crown Fleet |
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Crown Fleet
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Los Angeles City School Fleet |
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Los Angeles City School Fleet 1938
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Mercer Island School District Fleet |
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Mercer Island School District Fleet
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Moses Lake School District Fleet |
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Moses Lake School District Fleet 10/1964
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San Jose Unified Bus Fleet and staff |
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Atomic Energy Commission Hi-Level |
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Various black and white photos and color negatives of these deck-and-a-half coaches
            
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A.C. Brill – Extended Land Cruiser |
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This neat little artifact is quite the enigma. Who can decipher all the little clues to help us figure out what we are looking at?
 
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Crown Super II |
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This series of 2×2 color slides of the Crown Super II is a gorgeous set of photos taken from every imaginable angle. This collection was in the Crown Archives, but the collector and photographer are unknown.
                  
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The photographer Crown used for several decades to document their products and innovations was Dick Whittington. Somewhere between the 1950s and 1960s their longtime employee Warren Bowen started his own photo studio in Los Angeles. He took the Crown account with him. When Warren retired in the 1980s, he gave Louk Markham his Crown photos and negatives archives. Louk then donated these to The Pacific Bus Museum in February 2024.
Louk Markham described the photograph numbering system this way.
Let’s look at these two photos as samples:
 Warren Bowen 511-28-3 |
 Dick Whittington 06.120.1 |
First, both Warren Bowen and Dick Whittington used a similar ###-##-## format.
The second set of digits in the ###-##-## format was the roll or job number. The final digits were the photo-number on the roll.
Job#-Roll#-Photo#However, Dick Whittington generally wrote his numbers with dots and may have reversed the Job/Roll #’s: Roll#.Job#.Photo#