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Case (James B.) slides of highway construction in
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Language of Material:
English
Contributing Institution:
California Historical Society
Title: James B. Case slides of highway construction in California
Creator:
Case, James B.
Identifier/Call Number: PC 039
Physical Description:
1 folder
(102 color Kodachrome transparency slides)
Date (inclusive): 1949-1953
Abstract: Collection comprises 102 35 mm color
Kodachrome transparency slides documenting construction of highways in Los Angeles, Orick,
and San Francisco, California; training at Fort Ord army base; and a Case family vacation
and recreation in Orick, California taken by James B. Case between 1949 and 1953. Case
worked for the California Department of Transportation when taking many of these
photographs.
Language of Material: Collection materials are in
English.
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Immediate Source of Acquisition
Gift of James C. Case, 2019.
James B. Case trained at Fort Ord army base in Monterey County, California in the early
1950s. Between 1949 and 1953 he worked for the California Department of Transportation,
constructing and photographing highways throughout California.
[Identification of item, date]; James B. Case slides of highway construction in California,
PC 039; [box number, folder number]; California Historical Society.
Collection comprises 102 35 mm color Kodachrome transparency slides documenting
construction of highways in Los Angeles, Orick, and San Francisco, California; training at
Fort Ord army base; and a Case family vacation and recreation in Orick, California taken by
James B. Case between 1949 and 1953. Case worked for the California Department of
Transportation when taking many of these photographs. The bulk of the collection shows the
construction and completion of the Hollywood Freeway and the Harbor Freeway in Los Angeles
and the Bayshore Freeway in the San Francisco Bay Area. A selection of images depict the
final stages of construction of the Four Level Interchange in Los Angeles. This interchange
connects the Hollywood Freeway, Harbor Freeway, Santa Ana Freeway, and Arroyo Seco Parkway,
and is the first four level interchange to be constructed in the world.
Any rights (including copyright and related rights to publicity and privacy) held by James
B. Case, the Creator of this collection, were relinquished and transferred to the public
domain in April 2019 by James C. Case. These materials are governed by a Creative Commons
CCO license, which permits publication and reproduction of materials accompanied by full
attribution. See: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Arroyo Seco Parkway (Los Angeles, Calif.) -- Pictorial works
Fort Ord (Calif.) -- Pictorial works
Humboldt County (Calif.) -- Pictorial works
Interstate 5 (Calif.) -- Pictorial works
Interstate 110 (Calif.) -- Pictorial works
Los Angeles (Calif.) -- Pictorial works
Los Angeles County (Calif.) -- Pictorial works
Military education -- Pictorial works
Monterey County (Calif.) -- Pictorial works
Orick (Calif.) -- Pictorial works
Roads -- Design and construction -- California -- Los Angeles County --
Pictorial works
San Francisco (Calif.) -- Pictorial works
State Route 110 (Calif.) -- Pictorial works
United States Highway 101 (Calif.) -- Pictorial works