Opening Hours
Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
Manuscripts
Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
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Manuscripts
Approx. 20 items: selection of LAT, Automobile Club and other sources, with information on planning, construction and operation of highways within California and beyond. Notable item: 10-pp. stapled "pamphlet," "Distribution of California Highway Revenues," 3/21/1938, by J. Allen Davis.
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Approx. 45 items: a collection of text and photo material, most of it from American Automobile Association and LAT, related to the early decades of automobile travel in Southern California. Notable items: LAT article copy, 4/25/1899, "A horseless carriage...the first automobile arrives in Los Angeles..." ; 18-pp. manuscript, headed "Ocean to ocean highway trip" ("1912" added later) ; complete issue of Westways - 12/1950, "in observance of the Fiftieth Anniversary of the Automobile Club of Southern California" ; article tear sheet, Terra (mag), Summer 1973, "The Memorial Day run in Los Angeles," on the appearance of the first automobile in this City and its inventor, James P. Erie ; article tear sheet, Westways, 6/1975, "The first 75 years...a photographic essay...featuring the auto" ; LAT article tear sheet, ?/?/1986, "Autos...100 year-old love affair rolls on," by Steve Harvey.
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Correspondence and ephemera regarding national politics. Correspondents and subjects include Harry Chandler; L. D. Hotchkiss; John Nance Garner; William May Garland; James D. Meredith; Wendell Willkie; presidential election, 1940; and H. A. Wallace. File of L. D. Hotchkiss.
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3 items: 23-pp. (pink sheets) headed "Taping with Neil Petree on (3/20/1973)" ; 12-pp. (green sheets) headed "Tape #3 with Asa V. Call on 4/2/1973, on the development of transportation in Southern California, the Automobile Club, the freeway system, etc. ; spiral-bound booklet, Evaluation--transit systems proposals, Southern California Rapid Transit District & Orange County Transit District (prepared for The California Legislature), 5/31/1974 (binding removed).
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Correspondence, telegrams, newspaper clippings and writings on politics in California. Correspondents and topics include Harry Chandler, Herbert Hoover, J. R. Knowland, Paul Shoup, L. D. Hotchkiss, and others. File of L. D. Hotchkiss.
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Correspondence and reports from Guy Viskniskki, Harry Chandler, and L. D. Hotchkiss. File of L. D. Hotchkiss.
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