The Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority collection of Pershing Square construction progress photographs consists of photos, 35mm negatives, contact sheets, proof approval sheets, correspondence, cassette tapes, and video cassette tapes transferred from the construction company to the Southern California...
Gale Edward Vandeventer was an employee of the Southern California Rapid Transit District (SCRTD) from 1975 to the 1997. During this time, Vandeventer contributed to the creation of a new scheduling system for SCRTD's Scheduling Department and was part of...
The Jacki Bacharach papers consist of transit studies, environmental impact reports, general reports, meeting minutes and agendas, workshop notes, transit corridor maps, correspondence, and various planning papers for rail lines, bus routes, and transit organization functions.
The LACMTA Transit Video Collection contains over 700 items in video format from the 1970's forward. Items come in a variety of video formats: VHS, Beta, 3/4 inch Umatic, and other commercial grade video.
This collection documents the business activities of the Los Angeles County Transportation Commission (LACTC) from 1977 to 1993. Especially well documented are the agency's public relations efforts via the many publications (both internal and external) it issued. Also of interest...
Legal documents and correspondence generated in the operations of Los Angeles Railway Corporation, the company that operated local streetcar transit from 1895 - 1945.
The Art Department of the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority (LACMTA, Metro), created in 1989 under the predecessor transportation agency, Southern California Rapid Transit District (SCRTD), has worked to incorporate public art and transportation. The opening of light and...
The Metropolitan Coach Lines (MCL) records document the expansion of motor coach service and the abandonment of most rail passenger service in Los Angeles. This collection contains records created by both MCL and the Asbury Rapid Transit System, a small,...
The Pacific Electric Railway Company, established by Henry Huntington, connected cities across the Los Angeles metropolitan area. The records in this collection consist of information about rules and regulations governing employees, time tables and vehicle information, financial, operation, and service...
This collection contains artist's renderings depicting stations along the originally planned Red Line subway route, as well as stations along the eventually constructed Red and Purple Lines.
The Transit Reference Collection is an accumulation of reference resources, many now of historical value, collected by the libraries of the LACMTA and its predecessor agencies.