Pacific Electric Railway Company
Organization
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
Wally G. Shidler collection of Southern California ephemera
Collection
Identifier: 7089
Abstract
The Wally G. Shidler collection of Southern California ephemera consists of pamphlets, maps, postcards, theater programs, city directories, electric railway time tables, and transit passes from the Los Angeles City, County, and adjacent areas collected by former motion picture engineer, Wally G. Shidler. Pacific Electric and Los Angeles Railway materials as well as theater programs from most of the major theaters in the Los Angeles area comprise a significant portion of the collection.
Dates:
1900 - 2005
Found in:
USC Libraries Special Collections
Union Pacific Railroad Tidelands records
Collection
Identifier: 0243
Abstract
When the Union Pacific Railroad and Southern Pacific Railroad merged in 1997 and the former did a housecleaning of its inventory, many of the Union Pacific's archival materials were saved. The records that were donated to USC were chiefly those that were generated in the 1940s and 50s as part of the Tidelands controversies, concerning the Los Angeles / Long Beach / Wilmington harbor areas, and documenting channels, wetlands, islands, elevations, and shoreline. In addition to many maps,...
Dates:
1940s-1950s
Found in:
USC Libraries Special Collections
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- Subject: California, Southern -- Archival resources X
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- Aliso Street Viaduct -- History -- Archival resources 1
- Blueprints 1
- California, Southern -- Archival resources 1
- Coastal mapping -- California, Southern -- Archival resources 1
- Correspondence 1
- Field notes 1
- Geodesy -- California, Southern -- Archival resources 1
- Huntington Beach (Calif.) -- Maps 1
- Hydrographic surveying -- California, Southern -- Archival resources 1
- Hydrography -- California, Southern -- Archival resources 1
- Legal correspondence 1
- Legal documents 1
- Long Beach (Calif.) -- History -- Archival resources 1
- Long Beach (Calif.) -- Maps 1
- Long Beach Harbor (Calif.) -- History -- Archival resources 1
- Los Angeles (Calif.) -- Directories 1
- Los Angeles (Calif.) -- History -- Archival resources 1
- Maps 1
- Port of Long Beach -- History -- Archival resources 1
- Postcards 1
- Printed ephemera 1
- Ranches -- California -- Los Angeles County -- History -- Archival resources 1
- Regional planning -- California, Southern -- Archival resources 1
- San Gabriel River (Calif.) -- History -- Archival resources 1
- San Pedro (Los Angeles, Calif.) -- History -- Archival resources 1
- Stats 1
- Submerged lands -- California -- Maps 1
- Surveying -- Law and legislation -- United States -- Archival resources 1
- Terminal Island (Calif.) -- Maps 1
- Theater programs 1
- Theaters -- California -- Los Angeles -- Archival resources 1
- Topographical surveying -- California, Southern -- Archival resources 1
- Transportation -- California, Southern -- Archival resources 1
- Uncovering California's Environmental Collections Project 1
- Viaducts -- California -- Los Angeles -- Archival resources 1
- Wilmington (Los Angeles, Calif.) -- History -- Archival resources 1 + ∧ less
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