Los Angeles Railway Corporation records, 1857-1954, bulk 1887-1954
Collection context
Summary
- Creators:
- Lewis, Edwin L.
- Abstract:
- A group of material related to the Los Angeles Railway Corporation.
- Extent:
- 7 Linear Feet (4 boxes, 10 volumes, 5 folders, 1 roll)
- Language:
- Materials are in English.
- Preferred citation:
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[Identification of item]. Los Angeles Railway Corporation records, The Huntington Library, San Marino, California.
Background
- Scope and content:
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The collection consists of source material, mainly statistics, reports, and time schedules, related to the Los Angeles Railway Corporation; the material was collected by Edwin L. Lewis for his projected book on the railway systems of Los Angeles. The collection also includes letters, manuscripts, memorandum books, scrapbooks (with indexes), maps, and documents, including Edwin Lewis' two-volume typescript titled, "Street railway development in Los Angeles and environs, 1895-1938," related to Los Angeles area rail and transportation systems including the Pacific Electric Railway Company.
- Biographical / historical:
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The Los Angeles Railway Corporation, formed in 1910, was the final result of various mergers and consolidations of the numerous local and interurban railways which developed in Los Angeles and adjacent communities. In that year Henry E. Huntington yielded his interests in the Pacific Electric Company to the Southern Pacific Railroad Company, which subsequently controlled the interurban lines while Huntington incorporated the Los Angeles Railway Corporation, which then operated the Los Angeles city lines. This material was collected by Edwin L. Lewis, who had begun working for the Los Angeles Cable Railway Company in 1888, and eventually became the manager of the Los Angeles Railway Building in 1921.
- Acquisition information:
- Gifts of Edwin L. Lewis, 1935-1939. Gift of Mrs. Collis H. Holliday, December 1981. Transferred from Huntington Library ephemera collections, February 2015.
- Processing information:
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Processed by Huntington Library Staff, circa 1940-1981. In 2020, Gayle Richardson created the finding aid derived from a legacy summary report.
- Arrangement:
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Organized in two series: Series 1: Reports, correspondence, expenses, ephemera, freight stations, passenger data; Series 2: Maps, memo books, essays, scrapbooks, documents.
- Rules or conventions:
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
Indexed terms
- Subjects:
- Local transit -- California -- Los Angeles -- History
Street-railroads -- California -- Los Angeles -- History
Street-railroads -- California, Southern -- History
Business records -- California, Southern
Letters (correspondence) -- California, Southern
Manuscripts -- California, Southern
Maps -- California, Southern
Memorandums -- California, Southern
Reports -- California, Southern
Scrapbooks -- California, Southern - Names:
- Los Angeles Railway
Pacific Electric Railway Company. - Places:
- Los Angeles (Calif.) -- History -- 19th century -- Sources
Los Angeles (Calif.) -- History -- 20th century -- Sources
Access and use
- Restrictions:
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Open for use by qualified researchers and by appointment. Please contact Reader Services at the Huntington Library for more information.
- Terms of access:
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The Huntington Library does not require that researchers request permission to quote from or publish images of this material, nor does it charge fees for such activities. The responsibility for identifying the copyright holder, if there is one, and obtaining necessary permissions rests with the researcher.
- Preferred citation:
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[Identification of item]. Los Angeles Railway Corporation records, The Huntington Library, San Marino, California.
- Location of this collection:
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1151 Oxford RoadSan Marino, CA 91108, US
- Contact:
- (626) 405-2191