Manuscripts

Transportation - Highways

Description: 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.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Date: 1900 - 1940
Call number: mssLAT
Creator: Los Angeles Times (Firm)(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: The Los Angeles Times,
Restrictions: Open for use by qualified researchers and by appointment. Please contact Reader Services at the Huntington Library for more information.

Automobile Transportation

Manuscripts

Correspondence to and about the Automobile Club of Southern California; California Highway Revenues; Pan American Highway; Pasadena Freeway; William May Garland. Includes Harry Chandler correspondence. File of L. D. Hotchkiss.

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Transportation - Freeways

Manuscripts

15 items: selected LAT news stories, columns and editorials on the planning, construction and operation of the Los Angeles freeway system. Notable items: booklet, Parkway transit lines in the Los Angeles Central Business District, ca. 1945 ; multi-page copy, Targets ahead! Second of a series (from) the Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce -- Expressways...new roads for a new city, 1947 ; 15-pp.booklet, a preprint from California Highways and Public Works, 9/1954, "Hollywood Freeway.

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Transportation - Automobiles

Manuscripts

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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Transportation - Angels Flight

Manuscripts

Approx. 15 items: selection of materials--LAT clips, book excerpts, brochures--on Angels Flight funicular railway in downtown Los Angeles, both prior to 1969, when the line was dismantled, and during the 1970s, 1980s and early 1990s, reflecting plans to recreate the system. A wealth of information on Angels Flight, Bunker Hill (at the top of the line) and Downtown L.A. (at the bottom of the line). Notable: 12-pp. complete issue of Pacific Railway Journal, cover story, "Angels Flight Railway," 2/1958.

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Hollywood

Manuscripts

Approx. 12 items. Includes: a selection of LAT articles and other information about the community of Hollywood and, from 1911 on, the development of the film industry in Hollywood; Thomas Guide map of Hollywood area streets, stapled to "Chronology of development in Hollywood" (1-pp.), running from 1790 to 1925; spiral-bound, 35-pp. booklet, Hollywood - Historical Survey (Community Redevelopment Agency, City of Los Angeles), includes history, a complete timeline to 1978, charts, etc., 8/1985.

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Tom Johnson

Manuscripts

Approx. 65 items - notes, memos, a mission statement and other materials, many of them passed between Vance Stickell and Tom Johnson. Also: 3 stapled sheets headed "Mission statement of the Los Angeles Times" ; memos related to Dallas Times Herald ; articles from various publications on operation of LAT and other newspapers. ; 8-pp. booklet (gray), text of an adress by Tom Johnson, named Univ. of Arizona Executive of the Year, "America's Press - Free and Responsible?" ; more.

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