Automobile Club of Southern California collection, 1892-1963

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

View looking north along Coast Highway from point just north of Colorado Street, Santa Monica, Los Angeles County, 1927

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View looking north along Coast Highway from point just north of Colorado Street, Santa Monica, Los Angeles County, 1927

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Photograph (engineering notebook photoprint) looking north along Coast Highway from point just north of Colorado Street, Santa Monica, Los Angeles County. Also visible are: lumber and other construction supplies, workmen, pedestrians, railroad tracks, embankment at the top of which are palm trees, utility poles and lines, buildings (businesses mostly), a few parked automobiles. Legible signs include: "Auto park", "Santa Monica Athletic Club", "Parking 25¢".

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Title View looking north along Coast Highway from point just north of Colorado Street, Santa Monica, Los Angeles County, 1927

Subject Civil engineering (lcsh), Railroads -- Track (lcsh), roadways (adlf)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

Place California (states), Coast Highway (roadway), Colorado Street (roadway), Los Angeles (counties), Santa Monica (city or populated place)

Temporal Subject 1927-12-12

Type images

Format photographic prints (aat), photographs (aat), photoprint : b&w ; 9 x 11.5 cm. (aacr2)

Source Automobile Club of Southern California (contributing entity), Automobile Club of Southern California collection, 1892-1963 (collection), Automobile Club of Southern California: Engineering Notebook Photoprints, 1922-1941 (subcollection)

Date Created 1927-12-12

Creator Automobile Club of Southern California (creator)

Publisher University of Southern California. Libraries (digital)

Repository Email yates.morgan@aaa-calif.com

Repository Name Automobile Club of Southern California

Repository Location 2601 South Figueroa Street, H-118, Los Angeles, CA 90007-3294, USA

Rights Automobile Club of Southern California

Access Conditions 213-741-4486; https://www.calif.aaa.com

Permanent Link (DOI) https://doi.org/10.25549/acsc-m505

Identifier Engineering Notebook. Los Angeles County. Book VI. 741 (call number), AAA-EN-741 (filename), acsc-m1249 (legacy collection record id), acsc-c59-1004 (legacy record id), acsc-m505 (legacy record id)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 1004

Unique identifier UC1547833

Legacy Identifier AAA-EN-741.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 14.7 in × 11.1 in at 300dpi
37.5 cm × 28.3 cm at 300dpi

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

Description The Automobile Club of Southern California Collection provides documentation on the region's transportation history, especially Los Angeles from 1892 to 1963, from the Auto Club's Corporate Archives. The Collection includes: a selection of 98 historic strip maps, illustrating the development of major Southern California routes; 498 photographs from the general photograph collection, depicting buildings, businesses, streets, and points of interest; and 650 photographs from engineering notebooks along with searchable transcriptions of the engineers' notes documenting the conditions of streets, highways, bridges, railroads, etc.

The Automobile Club of Southern California was founded in 1900 and its archive provides a distinctive picture of life in the region during the 20th century. The documents and pictorial materials relate not only to the Club's history but also to local and regional architecture, infrastructure, public policy, and cultural and recreational history.

Since 1909 the Auto Club has produced a monthly magazine focused on automotive tourism. The archived issues of Touring Topics and its successor, Westways, provide a chronicle of landscapes and destinations including extensive coverage of the deserts and coastal regions of California, the national parks of the American West, and Hawaii.

The club began to participate in deliberations about transportation policy in 1909. Its activities have included independent provision of planning studies as well as commentary on public policies, programs and proposals. In 1922 the Auto Club produced the first comprehensive traffic survey of Los Angeles, and in 1937 its engineers wrote the first detailed proposal for a region-wide freeway system. The working files for these projects provide a rich source of materials on the region.

A substantial portion of the holdings document the workings of the organization itself, from the executive staff to the daily operations in dozens of district offices.

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