Automobile Club of Southern California collection, 1892-1963

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

Laurel Street grade crossing, Southern Pacific Pasadena Branch, South Pasadena, looking west on Laurel Street, Los Angeles County, 1926

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Laurel Street grade crossing, Southern Pacific Pasadena Branch, South Pasadena, looking west on Laurel Street, Los Angeles County, 1926

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Photograph (engineering notebook photoprint) of Laurel Street grade crossing, Southern Pacific Railroad Pasadena Branch, South Pasadena, looking west on Laurel Street, Los Angeles County. Railroad is in cut on both sides of street. Note restricted visibility. No signal protection. Also visible are: automobile, trees, houses, lawns, sidewalks, curbs, train, utility poles and lines. Legible signs include: "Railroad crossing, look out for the cars", "stop", car license "CA LA A-43 361"

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Title Laurel Street grade crossing, Southern Pacific Pasadena Branch, South Pasadena, looking west on Laurel Street, Los Angeles County, 1926

Subject Automobiles (lcsh), Railroads -- Crossings (lcsh), roadways (adlf), Trees (lcsh)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

Place California (states), Laurel Street (roadway), Los Angeles (counties), South Pasadena (city or populated place)

Temporal Subject 1926-04-12

Type images

Format photographic prints (aat), photographs (aat), photoprint : b&w ; 8.5 x 14.5 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 1926-04-12

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-m241

Identifier Engineering Notebook. Los Angeles County. Book V. 26-81 (call number), AAA-EN-26-81 (filename), acsc-m1249 (legacy collection record id), acsc-c59-740 (legacy record id), acsc-m241 (legacy record id)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 740

Unique identifier UC1547135

Legacy Identifier AAA-EN-26-81.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 18.9 in × 11.2 in at 300dpi
48.0 cm × 28.6 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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