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Collection Description

650 photoprints from 15 notebooks (4 California State Highways books, 6 Los Angeles City books, 5 Los Angeles County books) from the Archive of the Automobile Club of Southern California. Two prints are attached to each page with photo-album corners. A typed narrative description of each photograph is adjacent to each image (2-3 sentences). The notebooks date from 1922 through 1941. The images principally document road condition, safety, construction and maintenance.


Title:

Automobile Club of Southern California engineering notebook photoprints, 1922-1941

Alternate Title:

(short) Auto Club prints
[short] Auto Club prints

Record ID:

acsc-m1249

Names & Dates

Created:

1922/1941

Creator:

Automobile Club of Southern California

Publisher:

[host] University of Southern California. Libraries

Subject

Topic:

Roads , roadways , Automobiles , Buildings

Coverage:

1922/1941

Place:

[states/provinces] California
[counties] Los Angeles
[economic regions] Southern California

Relationships

Part Of:

[collection] Automobile Club of Southern California collection, 1892-1963

Physical

Type:

collections
images

Format:

photographs
photographic prints
650 photographs : photoprints, b&w ; 9 x 12 cm. to 9 x 15 cm.

Access

Rights:

Automobile Club of Southern California

Identifiers

Record ID:

acsc-m1249

Source:

[call no] Engineering Notebooks. California State Highways. Books II, IV, X, XI
[call no] Engineering Notebooks. Los Angeles City. Books I, II, III, IV, V, VI
[call no] Engineering Notebooks. Los Angeles County. Books IV, V, VI, VII, VIII

Collection Sampling

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From north side of narrow bridge on Cent...
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Intersection of Melrose and Western Aven...
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Intersection of Melrose and Western Aven...
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Looking west on Wilshire from east side ...