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Automobile Club of Southern California engineering notebook photoprints, 1922-1941
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Sears Roebuck parking roof on Pico Boulevard, Los Angeles, 1939
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Sears Roebuck parking roof on Pico Boulevard, Los Angeles, 1939

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Photograph (engineering notebook photoprint) of Sears Roebuck parking roof on Pico Boulevard, Los Angeles. Also visible are: many automobiles, chain link fence, utility poles and lines, large tree, pedestrians, road, other buildings in background. Legible signs include: "Entrance to Sears Pico", "Sears Roebuck and Co.", "Sears". 
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Title Sears Roebuck parking roof on Pico Boulevard, Los Angeles, 1939 
Creator Automobile Club of Southern California (creator) 
Publisher University of Southern California. Libraries (digital) 
Date Created 1939-10-19 
Subject Automobiles  (lcsh), Department stores  (lcsh), Parking lots  (lcsh) 
Tags OAI-PMH Harvest 
Place California (states), Los Angeles (city or populated place), Los Angeles (counties), Pico Boulevard (roadway) 
Temporal Subject 1939-10-19 
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) 
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-m704 
Identifier Engineering Notebook. Los Angeles City. Book VI. 39-120 (call number), AAA-EN-39-120 (filename), acsc-m1249 (legacy collection record id), acsc-c59-1202 (legacy record id), acsc-m704 (legacy record id) 
IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID] 
DM Record ID 1202 
Unique identifier UC1548018 
Legacy Identifier AAA-EN-39-120.tiff 
Type Image 
Internet Media Type image/tiff
Resolution 14.8 in × 11.4 in at 300dpi
37.7 cm × 28.9 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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Automobile Club of Southern California engineering notebook photoprints, 1922-1941 
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