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Series 1. Manufacturers

 

Autocar

Box 1

Autocar Messenger 156155 1920-1925

Container Summary: Bound issues of promotional magazine (5 volumes).
Box 2

Autocar Messenger 156153 1926

Scope and Contents note

Bound issues of promotional magazine (1 volume).
Box 2

Autocar photo albums 1920s-30s

Scope and Contents

Five sets of bound promotional photographs.
Box 3

Autocar photo album of road construction projects in Sierra Nevada 156115 1920s-30s

 

Yosemite Valley 156151

Container Summary: 30 photos
 

Mono Lake 156149

Container Summary: 3 photos
 

Leevining Canyon 156147

Container Summary: 2 photos
 

Valley Springs 156145

Container Summary: 7 photos
 

Calaveras 156143

Container Summary: 1 photos
 

Jackson 156141

Container Summary: 3 photos
 

Colfax - Gold Run 156139

Container Summary: 2 photos
 

truck driving 156137

Container Summary: 4 photos
 

Mystic (Truckee River) 156135

Container Summary: 3 photos
 

Lake Tahoe 156133

Container Summary: 5 photos
 

Bijou -Minden Road 156131

Container Summary: 1 photos
 

Pleasant Valley (Relocation of Yosemite VAlley Railroad) and Exchequer Dam) 156129

Container Summary: 6 photos
 

Lodoga 156127

Container Summary: 5 photos
 

Sacramento River Canyon 156125

Container Summary: 3 photos
 

Lake Almanor Dam 156123

Container Summary: 13 photos
 

next generation 156121

Container Summary: 3 photos
 

miscellaneous - includes the Calaveras Big Tree grove 156119

Container Summary: 12 photos
 

mounted separately, many dated 156117 1930-31.

Container Summary: 20 photos
Box 5, folder 1

Autocar Trucks 156111

Scope and Contents note

1 flier (printed after 1950) for the 1898 Autocar ; 3 printed advertisement bulletins ; brief outline of the history of the company, 1951 ; bound catalog showing construction process, etc.
Box 11

Autocar scrapbook 1915-1916

Immediate Source of Acquisition

gift of John H. Phillips
 

Fageol Motors

Scope and Contents

Fageol was based in Oakland, and most of the photos here are set on the West Coast, including California, Oregon & Washington, along with some from Australia (they had a branch there) and one from Japan.
There are quite a few non-Fageol photos filed here as well, including some from New York.
Box 4, folder 1

misc. 156113

Scope and Contents

Includes images of a christenings, a trade show display, offices, showrooms, advertising, technical drawings, and commercial copy with cropping and highlighting.
Box 4, folder 3

casual driving, rural roads & snow

Box 4, folder 4

misc. - towing, horse trailer, ferry, fire trucks

Box 4, folder 22

buses & coaches

Box 4, folder 5

dump trucks, construction, roadworks, etc.

Scope and Contents

Includes images from Los Angeles and the Pacific Northwest
Box 4, folder 2

flat bed trucks, cabs, hauling

Box 4, folder 6

food hauling - produce, livestock, dairy, ice, etc.

Scope and Contents

Includes images from Los Angeles and the Pacific Northwest
Box 4, folder 7

freight, drayage, moving

Box 4, folder 8

gas trucks, gas stations

Scope and Contents

Includes images from San Francisco, Los Angeles and the Pacific Northwest
Box 4, folder 9

logging, lumber

Box 4, folder 10

Los Angeles, Southern California

Box 4, folder 11

Los Angeles - buses & coaches

Scope and Contents

Most are Los Angeles Motor Bus Company
Box 4, folder 12

San Francisco

Box 4, folder 17

San Francisco etc. - gift of Randolph Brandt (copy prints) 156037

Box 4, folder 13

Oakland/East Bay

Box 4, folder 15

San Francisco Bay Area - construction, etc.

Box 4, folder 16

San Francisco Bay Area - produce, foodstuffs, etc.

Box 4, folder 18

Pacific Northwest

Box 4, folder 19

Pacific Northwest - buses & coaches

Box 4, folder 20

Pacific Northwest - Consolidated Truck Lines/Freight Lines

Box 4, folder 21

Southern Pacific Motor Transport Co. Safety Coaches

Box 4, folder 23

misc. small photos

Box 4, folder 24

Costa Rica

Box 4, folder 25

billboards

Box 4, folder 26

photocopies in numbered order

Box 5, folder 2

Kenworth 156107

Scope and Contents note

Kenworth Craftsman, June 1960. Vol 18 #3 ; 4 prints of Kenworth, gift of Edwin S. Acker ; 1 print Kenworth, gift John C. Springer.
 

Mack Trucks (International Motor Co.)

Box 5, folder 3

Mack Trucks 156105

Scope and Contents note

1912 price list (with 13 pictures) ; 2 printed sheets (front and back) inc. 5 pictures.
Box 4, folder 14

Santa Cruz - Union Traction Co. (Mack)

Scope and Contents

Transferred from Hopkins Transportation Library at unknown date
 

Reliance Trailer & Truck

Box 5, folder 7

San Francisco - Reliance Trailers dealer catalog 156055

Box 5, folder 6

San Francisco - Reliance Trailer and Truck Co., Inc. 156057

Scope and Contents note

Gift of William Tice.
 

Del Monte Creamery truck & tailer, 156097 1926

 

Early low-bed (2) 156095

 

Solid tire low-bed trailer 156093

 

Experimental dump truck, 156091 circa 1926

 

Riverdale creamery truck & trailer 156089

 

Reliance side dump trailer, 156087 1926,

Scope and Contents note

(San Diego Street R.R. Co.)
 

Alaska- special construction trailer, 156085 circa 1922

 

Bottom dump trailer for Santa Clara Co road maintenance. 156083

 

Pierce Arrow truck, Reliance trailer (Soledad to San Francisco over San Juan grade, 134 miles, 12-13 hours) 156081 1921-22.

 

Reliance building at 16th St., San Francisco. 156079

 

Lane air brakes, 156077 1921.

 

Pierce Arrow truck, Reliance trailer, (Glass lined tanks for Naitonal Ice Cream). 156075 1922.

 

Bekins Van & Trailer, 156073 1927.

 

Peterbilt truck, Reliance trailer with the largest load of Redwood logs recorded, Ft. Bragg. 156071 1952.

 

Logging truck & trailer, 156069 1922.

 

Pacific Body Works truck & trailer, 156067 1924-26.

 

Hay truck, 156065 1924.

 

Hay truck 156063

 

Lumber truck 156061

 

3 miscellaneous 156059

Box 5, folder 4

Trailmobile 156109

Scope and Contents note

Gift of Trailmobile, Includes 10 photos of Trailmobile trucks (the following subject matter is also included in the photos:) Cincinnati, Ohio, 1919 (2) ; fairs (1916) ; parade ; San Antonio, Texas, 1918 ; Gas stations, 1939 (Associated Oil Co.)
 

White Motor Co.

Box 5, folder 9

White Motor Co. 156049

Scope and Contents note

Gift of White Motor Co. 1921 White truck (photo) ; Ad showing White trucks doing rescue work during floods in Obio/Indiana, 1913; Pittsburgh flood in 1906, and other emergencies ; Extract from the White Bulletin, 1906
Box 5, folder 5

White Motor Co. Growth of Motor Transportation talk by O.E. Dagner 156103 May 8, 1936

Scope and Contents

5 pp typescript by O.E. Dagner (of White Motor Co.) for a presentation at a meeting of the Society of Automotive Engineers, accompanied by 26 photos and transparencies used in illustration.
 

Series 2. Freight companies

Box 6, folder 1

Asbury Transportation Company

Box 6, folder 2-3

Bekins Van & Storage Company

Box 6, folder 4

Belyea Truck Lines

Box 6, folder 6

Consolidated Freightways, Inc.

Box 6, folder 7

Consolidated Freightways - Action 1951-1953

Box 6, folder 8

Gallagher Transfer & Storage Company

Box 5, folder 8

Hilo Transportation and Terminal Co., Ltd. 156053

Scope and Contents note

5 photos of sugar hauling equipment in Hawaii. Gift of Hilo Transportation.
Box 6, folder 9

Interstate Motor Lines, Inc.

Box 6, folder 10

Lee & Eastes, Inc.

Box 7, folder 1

Los Angeles - Albuquerque Express

Box 7, folder 2

Lyon Van & Storage Company

Box 7, folder 3

Pacific Freight Lines

Box 10, folder 1

Pacific Freight Lines - negatives

Box 7, folder 4

Pacific Intermountain Express

Box 7, folder 5

Pacific Intermountain Express - Log 1950-1953

Box 7, folder 6

Paxton Trucking Company

Box 7, folder 7

Signal Trucking Services, Ltd.

Box 8, folder 1

West Coast Fast Freight

Box 8, folder 2

miscellaneous trucking ephemera, correspondence, etc.

Scope and Contents

Includes small amounts of material from firms including City Transfer & Storage, Long Beach ; Commercial Motor Freight ; Fortier Transportation ; Garibaldi ; Garrett Freightlines ; Keystone Express Sysytem ; Lamb Transportation ; Lang Transportation ; A.R. Pearson Truck ; Peerless Trailer & Truck Services ; Pierce Freight Lines ; Petroluem Transportation ; Shell Oil ; Southern California Freight Lines ; Wells Cargo ; Western Truck Lines.
 

Series 3. Utility companies

Box 9

Pacific Gas & Electric Company - prints and negative sleeves

Box 10, folder 2-3

Pacific Gas & Electric Company - negatives

 

Series 4. Trade organizations

Box 6, folder 5

California Motor Transport Association

 

Series 5. Miscellaneous

Box 11

The Commercial Car Journal vol. IV No. 4 December 15, 1912