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Inventory of the Dept. of Public Works. Division of Highways/California Highway Commission Records
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Title: Dept. of Public Works. Division of Highways/California Highway Commission Records
Inventory: F3778; F3779
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Agency History
The first state agencies formed for the purpose of constructing roadways were established in 1895. In that year, the Bureau
of Highways was created to study the laws, physical features, and economic and legal status of highways in the State (
Stats. 1895, ch. 203). In addition, a Tahoe Wagon Road Commissioner was appointed to investigate the possibilities of construction
of a road to Lake Tahoe (
Stats. 1895, ch. 119).
In 1897, the Department of Highways (headed by three Commissioners, reduced to one in 1898) assumed the functions of the Bureau
of Highways (
Stats. 1897, ch. 272). Both the functions of the Department of Highways and the Lake Tahoe Wagon Road Commissioner were absorbed
into the Department of Engineering in 1907 (
Stats. 1907, ch. 183). Highway work was handled by a subdivision of the Engineering Department called the Highway Department.
Three members were added to the Advisory Board of the Department of Engineering in 1911 (
Stats. 1911, ch. 409), who were vested with direct control over the Highway Department. On August 8, 1911, the Advisory Board designated
these members the California Highway Commission (hereafter CHC).
On October 9, 1911, the newly created CHC appointed a Highway Engineer to act as chief executive of the Highway Department
and created seven highway districts, each with a district office headed by a division engineer (hereafter referred to as district
engineers). District engineers were responsible for the location, construction, and maintenance of roads within their district
(see series entry 4, MINUTES, 1911-1978). At that time, the Highway Department contained five major organizational units:
legal, disbursing, accounting, and headquarters engineering (see organization chart I).
When the Department of Engineering was reorganized in 1915, the designation Bureau of Highways was officially used in place
of Highway Department, but the CHC continued to act as the executive body and the organization remained unchanged.
In 1921, the Bureau of Highways was re-designated the Division of Highways and along with the CHC was placed under the newly
created Department of Public Works (
Stats. 1921, ch. 607). The director of the Department acted both as State Highway Engineer and as Chief Executive of the CHC.
In 1923, however, highway activities were removed from the Department of Public Works and placed under the CHC which became
a totally independent body (
Stats. 1923, ch. 289). The Statutes of 1927 (ch. 252) again amended the Political Code relating to the Department of Public Works.
The Department succeeded to the power and duties of the Commission, although the CHC was recreated with more limited powers
including: the routing of highways, the funding of projects, the abandonment of routes, the inclusion of roads within the
State highway system, and the condemnation of property.
The CHC reorganized the Division of Highways in 1923. The Disbursing Department ceased to exist. In addition, six new Departments
were added: Bridges, Construction, Maintenance, Equipment, Prison Road Camps, and Surveys and Plans. Although the Division
was placed under the control of the Department of Public Works again in 1927 (
Stats. 1927, ch. 252), its organization remained essentially unchanged until 1947, with the following exceptions: in 1928, the Testing
and Research Laboratory was removed from the Construction Department and renamed the Materials and Research Department; in
the same year the
Department of Prison Road Camps was placed under the Construction Department; in 1933, the City and Cooperative Project Department
was created; and in 1938, the Department of Traffic and Safety was formed (see organization charts, pp. 3-6).
The CHC originally created seven highway districts to oversee construction and maintenance. By January 1924, increased construction
demands made necessary the addition of four additional districts, bringing the total to ten. An eleventh district was added
in 1935.
Increased highway funding in 1947 necessitated the revamping of the Division of Highways in August of that year. The Departments
of Construction, Maintenance, Equipment, and Research were made functions of a new Department of Operations. Traffic and Surveys
and Plans (renamed Design) were placed under the newly formed Department of Planning. An Administrative Department was established
encompassing the Office Engineer, County and Cooperative Projects (created in 1945), City and Cooperative Projects, Highway
Stores (in 1951 the name changed to Service and Supply), and the Federal Secondary Engineer (created June 1, 1945). Further,
the Department of Rights of Way was formed to handle right of way functions first centralized in 1941, and an Assistant state
highway engineer was made responsible for personnel matters and the prequalification of contractors (see organization charts,
pp. 3-6).
The following additional changes were made to the 1947 organization before the elimination of the Division of Highways in
1973: in 1948, the Advanced Planning Department was established under the Department of Planning; the Department of Public
Relations and Personnel was formed in 1951; and 1962 brought the creation of the Office of Urban Planning under the Department
of Planning, and the renaming of the Accounting Department as the Department of Fiscal Management.
In 1973, the functions of the Division of Highways were assumed by the Department of Transportation (
Stats. 1971, ch. 1400 and
Stats. 1972, ch. 1253).
The California Highway Commission ceased to exist as of July 1, 1978 (
Stats. 1977, ch. 1106).
Lake Tahoe Wagon Road Commissioner (1895-1907)
1. RECORDS OF THE CONSTRUCTION OF THE LAKE TAHOE WAGON ROAD. 1861-1917, (1966).
Physical Description:
2ff. and 18 Vols.
Scope and Content Note
Organized into the categories listed below in the order listed below.
Folder F3612:1
Histories (1966)
Physical Description:
1ff.
Scope and Content Note
Histories of the surveying and construction of the Lake Tahoe Wagon Road prepared by John W. Snell, Property Researcher of
the Division of Highways. Includes copies of photographs of a 1907 road survey party.
Folder F2583
Deeds, Abstracts, and Titles (1861-1917)
Physical Description:
1ff.
Scope and Content Note
Copies of legal documents relating to the ownership of land along the route of the road from 1861 until purchase by the State.
Folder F3619:2-19
Field Survey Books (1900, 1907, 1911)
Physical Description:
18 Vols.
Scope and Content Note
Transit books (for the horizontal survey) and level books (for the vertical survey) prepared during various surveys of the
route of the road carried out by State officials. For a description of the survey books, see
Histories (this series).
Folder Map #58
Survey Map (1895).
Physical Description:
1 map
Scope and Content Note
Map of the Lake Tahoe Wagon Road showing topography, prepared by John Price, County Surveyor of El Dorado County on March
26, 1895. Field elevations taken during a county survey of the road are included on the face of the map. Size: 2'3" x 6'6".
Scale: 1" = 60 chains.
Bureau of Highways (1895-1897)
Folder F3778:1
2. MINUTES OF THE BUREAU OF HIGHWAYS AND THE DEPARTMENT OF HIGHWAYS. 1895-1907.
Physical Description:
1 Vol.
Scope and Content Note
Contains summaries of meetings, legal document establishing the Bureau of Highways, descriptions of road inspection trips,
information on the hiring of employees, and reports on rock crushing operations at Folsom Prison. First entry April 11, 1895;
last entry May 9, 1907.
3. FINANCIAL RECORDS. 1895-1897.
Physical Description:
2 Vols.
Scope and Content Note
General ledger placed first, account book of the Folsom Rock Crusher placed thereafter.
Folder F3778:10
General Ledger (1895-1897)
Scope and Content Note
Indexed listing of accounts with employees, contractors, and vendors.
Folder F3778:9
Folsom Rock Crusher Account Book (1895-1896)
Scope and Content Note
Indexed list of accounts for the construction of a rock crushing machine within Folsom Prison to be operated by the prisoners.
Department of Highways (1895-1897)
4. RECORDS OF THE DEPARTMENT OF HIGHWAYS. 1897-1899, 1901-1905.
Physical Description:
1ff. and 5 Vols.
Scope and Content Note
Organized into the following categories in the following order: index, specifications, ledger books and legislative road bill
scrapbooks.
Folder F3778:8
Index (Aug. 10, 1899)
Physical Description:
1 Vol.
Scope and Content Note
Index to the books and papers of the Department. Most of the materials listed no longer exist.
Folder F3778:7
Specifications (1899)
Physical Description:
1 Vol.
Scope and Content Note
Bound volume containing copies of specifications prepared for the Department of Highways and the Board of State Harbor Commissioners
for the construction of a stone arch bridge on the Lake Tahoe State Wagon Road, the widening of San Francisco wharves, and
the construction of a Union Depot and Ferry House in San Francisco. The largest portion of the material relates to the construction
of the Ferry Building in San Francisco which includes floor plans.
Folder F3778:5-6
Ledgers (1897-1898, 1901-1903)
Physical Description:
2 Vols.
Scope and Content Note
Indexed listing of accounts with employees, contractors, and vendors on road construction projects.
Folder F3778:4
Ledgers (1901-1903)
Physical Description:
1ff.
Scope and Content Note
Inventory listing of equipment, supplies, services, payrolls purchased by the Department of Highways for the construction
of the Sonora and Mono Road, the Mono Lake Basin or Tioga Road, the Lake Tahoe Wagon Road, and the Eel River Riprap (sic).
Lists date of purchase, vendor, and the price.
Folder F3778:2-3
Legislative Road Bill Scrapbook (1903, 1905)
Physical Description:
2 Vols.
Scope and Content Note
Chronologically arranged collections of road construction bills introduced in the State Legislature.
California Highway Commission (1911-1978)
Folder F3779:1-337
5. MINUTES. 1911-1950.
Physical Description:
25cf.
Scope and Content Note
Organized chronologically by year, and thereafter correspondence and original resolutions are arranged by date of meeting
and are filed directly after the volume of minutes to which they relate.
Contains bound copies of the minutes of all C.H.C. meetings (Vols. 1-52, Vol. 19 is missing), and the original initialed copies
of resolutions before the Commission.
Minutes of Meetings (1911-1927)
Scope and Content Note
Includes copies of all resolutions voted on by the Commission dealing with the awarding of contracts, the laying out of highway
routes, the letting out of bids, the allocation of funds, the condemnation of property, and the abandonment of highway routes;
summaries of conferences with municipal and county officials and representatives of automobile clubs requesting revisions
or additions to proposed highway routes (after 1935, frequently verbatim transcripts); lists of bids received and contracts
and work orders let; calendars of correspondence received (including a brief statement of the content); tabulations of Federal
funds obtained for State highway construction; and monthly lists of all employees recently hired, terminated, or granted a
raise and their salaries (to 1924 only).
Minutes from 1911 to 1921 frequently contain summaries of meetings of the Advisory Board of the Department of Engineering
(often attended by the governor) called to discuss the State's highway program and the letting out of major construction contracts.
(1928-1945) - minutes no longer contain calendars of correspondence or lists of bids, contracts and work orders, but do contain
copies of the proposed budget of the Division of Highways. of special interest is a report on the orderly addition of new
roads to the State highway system which appears in the July 24, 1930 minutes of the Commission.
Original Resolutions and Correspondence
Scope and Content Note
Original copies of resolutions, which include the signature or initials of Commission members approving of the resolution
and in some cases additional information which does not appear in the bound volumes of the minutes (frequently after 1930,
maps of proposed highway routes). Also incoming correspondence from the Highway Engineer containing construction proposals
for consideration and action by the Commission (largely from 1911 to 1915).
Resolutions of the Commission presented at Advisory Board meetings from 1912 to 1914 are filed separately after all other
materials relating to 1914. Resolutions presented at Commission meetings from 1913 to 1915 are filed after all other materials
relating to 1915.
Of special interest is a verbatim transcript of a meeting between the Commission and the State Board of Prison Directors to
discuss the use of road gangs in the building of highways, which appears in materials relating to the October 21, 1943 meeting
of the C.H.C.
Folder F3778:11-27
6. RECORDS OF COMMISSION HEARINGS. 1954-1956.
Physical Description:
1cf.
Scope and Content Note
Records relating to the Riverside-Ventura Freeway (VII-LA-2-161-LA) placed first (1954); records of the Olympic Freeway (VII-LA-173-Smca)
placed thereafter (1955-1956). Thereunder, organized into the following categories in the following order: findings, transcripts,
supplements to transcripts, correspondence, and petitions.
Materials collected during public hearings to discuss the proposed routing of two controversial freeways in Southern California.
Findings
Scope and Content Note
Copies of the conclusions reached by the hearing Commissioners at the end of the public hearing, summarizing testimony and
making recommendations to the full Commission.
Transcript
Scope and Content Note
Containing testimony of the state highway engineers, and statements and testimony of interested parties. Testimony deals with
the need for a freeway and its probable effects on the surrounding area.
Supplement to Transcript
Scope and Content Note
Copies of maps, statements, and articles submitted at hearings. Maps illustrate proposed routes, traffic flow, and population
density.
Correspondence
Scope and Content Note
A sampling (A, D, G, M, W) arranged alphabetically by name of sender of letters received from the public protesting proposed
freeway routes, and copies of Commission replies. Placed in the front of the first folder of Olympic Freeway correspondence
are copies of form letters sent in reply to all incoming correspondence.
Petitions
Scope and Content Note
A sampling (1 in 10) of petitions protesting the routing of freeways.
Folder F3778:28-129
7. GENERAL CORRESPONDENCE. 1933-1950, 1958-1959.
Physical Description:
3cf.
Scope and Content Note
Organized into the following categories in the following order: correspondence - outside, correspondence - internal, and minute
records. Thereunder arranged chronologically.
Correspondence - Outside (1933-1934)
Physical Description:
5ff.
Scope and Content Note
Contains resolutions, protests, petitions, requests to appear before the Commission, requests for information on building
programs, and invitations largely received from municipal and county officials; and replies prepared by the Commission Secretary.
Correspondence - Internal (1933-1949)
Physical Description:
13ff.
Scope and Content Note
Copies of letters sent by the Chairman to the Director of Public Works describing Commission activities; communications from
the chairman to the Commission Secretary describing the future plans of the Commission; memoranda from the Secretary to members
describing issues to be discussed at meetings and transmitting petitions, resolutions, and in some cases maps; incoming and
outgoing correspondence with the Highway Engineer requesting information on the progress of building programs; and scattered
copies of addresses delivered by members.
Minute Records (1938-1950, 1958-1959)
Physical Description:
2 3/4cf.
Scope and Content Note
Materials sent to Commissioners in advance of meeting including memoranda summarizing resolutions to be voted on, and reports
from Highway Engineer on proposed building projects, the feasibility of various proposals, and providing information requested
by the Commission (maps frequently included).
Also contains copies of resolutions, petitions, plans, maps, and related correspondence submitted in conjunction with conferences
with municipal and county officials to discuss future building proposals. Transcripts of conferences appear in the minutes
(see series entry 5, MINUTES, 1911-1950).
Of special interest is a progress report on prison labor camps (Minute Records - August 29, 1949).
Folder F3778:130-222
8. CORRESPONDENCE OF COMMISSIONER HARRISON R. BAKER. 1943-1952.
Physical Description:
5cf.
Scope and Content Note
Organized chronologically by year and thereunder, records are arranged in the following categories in the following order:
meeting background memoranda placed first, arranged chronologically by meeting; and general correspondence placed thereafter,
organized chronologically.
Meeting Background Memoranda
Scope and Content Note
Materials distributed to Commissioners in advance of meetings, including: summaries of proposed resolutions regarding the
budget, condemnations, abandonments, and Director's deeds; reports by Highway Engineer on the progress of specific highway
projects, proposed highway routing, the acquisition of rights-of-way, repair programs, and roads added to the highway system
(reports frequently include alignment maps); financial status reports; statistical reports on prison labor projects; petitions
from municipal and county governments dealing with highway proposals before the Commission; and miscellaneous related correspondence.
Of special interest is a history of the State road gang labor system (October 5, 1943 meeting).
Correspondence
Scope and Content Note
Letters and resolutions received from municipal and county officials, associations interested in highway construction (i.e.
the Central Valley Highway Assn.), and from the general public requesting revisions in highway construction plans, citing
hazardous points along roads, or complaining about the effects of highway construction on the surrounding countryside; replies
from Baker; communications between Baker and the Highway Engineer and District Engineers of Districts V and VII requesting
specific information on the highway construction program in Southern California; notes on inspection tours made by the Commission;
State Chamber of Commerce recommendations for building programs; and monthly statistics on the cost of prison road gangs.
Filed directly after the general correspondence relating to 1951 in a folder dealing with the opposition of the City of El
Monte to the construction of the Pomona Freeway through that city. Folder contains feasibility reports, copies of memoranda
between Commission members and the Highway Engineer, and copies of transcripts of hearings held by the Commission on the subject.
Folder F3778:223-267
9. CORRESPONDENCE OF THE COMMISSION SECRETARY. 1951-1958.
Physical Description:
3cf.
Scope and Content Note
Organized into the following two categories in the following order: general correspondence placed first, arranged alphabetically
by name of sender (incoming), addressee (outgoing), or subject and chronologically thereunder; and district correspondence
thereafter
organized by district number in ascending order and chronologically thereunder.
General Correspondence
Scope and Content Note
Scattered letters received from the general public and copies of the Secretary's replies to public questions about highway
programs; Attorney General's opinions on highway laws; opinions by the Division of Contracts and Rights of Way on the legal
authority of the Commission; copies of resolutions and petitions of municipalities and counties transmitted by the Secretary
to the Commission; press releases and itineraries of field trips made by the Commission.
District Correspondence
Scope and Content Note
Letters received from the public and copies of Secretary's replies to questions and complaints about highway projects in specific
highway districts; memoranda sent to Commissioners and Director of the Department of Public Works providing information requested
on specific building projects; communications with district engineers (frequently containing project maps); resolutions, petitions,
and reports submitted by municipal and county governments; and transcripts, Commission findings, reports, and press releases
relating to public hearings held by the Commission to receive comments on proposed building projects.
Folder F3778:268
10. PRESS RELEASES. 1921-1923.
Physical Description:
1ff.
Scope and Content Note
Arranged chronologically.
Announcements of the completion of projects, the results of road building experiments, the letting out of contracts, and the
assets and obligations of the road building program.
Folder F3778:269-271
11. CONDEMNATION RESOLUTIONS. 1945-1947.
Physical Description:
3ff.
Scope and Content Note
Arranged chronologically.
The Commission had the authority to condemn property for the right-of-way of highways. Resolutions of condemnation were voted
on at C.H.C. meetings, and a summary of the resolutions appears in the Commission minutes.
Contains: a copy of Commission resolution, a description of the lands being condemned, and maps showing the exact location
of the condemned property.
Series is composed of a sample - the resolutions of one meeting per year.
Folder F3778:272-287
12. PROPOSED HIGHWAY CONTRACT FILE. 1921-1926.
Physical Description:
16ff.
Scope and Content Note
Arranged by district, county, route and section and chronologically thereunder.
Records submitted to the Highway Commission by the State Highway Engineer containing information on proposed highway construction
contracts, including memoranda from the Highway Engineer describing the proposal, a report by the district engineer comprising
recommendations and estimates of cost, a copy of the proposed contract, notices to contractors, bond forms, and specifications.
- II-Las-28-A
- II-Las-29-B
- II-Las-29-C
- II-Las-23-C & D
- III-Sac-3-B
- III-Pla-37-A, B, C
- IV-Mrn-1-B
- V-S.B.-2-J
- VI-Tul-10-F
- VII-Imp-27-A
- VII-Ora-60-A & B
- VIII-S.Bd.-26-A
Folder F3778:288
13. PROGRESS REPORTS. 1912-1913.
Physical Description:
1 Vol.
Scope and Content Note
Reports submitted to the Commission by the Highway Engineer containing a chart listing for each segment of road under construction
the date of survey, the layout, and the contract number; a brief narrative statement of the progress being made on each segment
of road under construction; statements of the assets, liabilities, and expenses of the Commission; and reports by the Highway
Engineer on the problems and accomplishments of the construction program - including criticisms of its weaknesses.
Folder F3778:289
14. REPORT ON ADDITIONS TO THE HIGHWAY SYSTEM. 1930.
Physical Description:
1ff.
Scope and Content Note
Bound 165 page report prepared by the Division of Highways titled, Report on the Orderly Addition of New Roads to the California
State Highway System. Contains recommendations by the Division for additional road construction and supportive data including
traffic studies, descriptions of on-site investigations, and estimates of the probable cost of additional construction.
An early draft of this report may be found in the minutes of the State Highway Commission for July 24, 1930 (see series entry
5, MINUTES, 1911-1950).
Folder F3778:290
15. SEMINAR TRANSCRIPT. 1914.
Physical Description:
1ff.
Scope and Content Note
Transcript of a March 26 and 27, 1914 seminar of Highway Bureau department heads called by the California Highway Commission.
Contains copies of all addresses delivered at the seminar. Topics include: county bridges, rights of way, day labor vs. contract
labor, publicity, accounting, purchasing, surveys and drafting, testing of materials, drainage, mountain roads, inspection
on contract work, extra work orders, various types of road construction, collecting of cost data and maintenance.
Folder F3778:291
16. NEWSPAPER CRITICISM. July 30, 1915.
Physical Description:
1ff.
Scope and Content Note
Copy of the newspaper, the Byron Times (July 30, 1915) containing an article accusing the Commission of gross incompetence
in the construction of the Martinez Richmond State Highway and of creating death traps. Newspaper includes a political cartoon
on the subject.
Division of Highways - Headquarters (1915-1973)
Scope and Content Note
(Previously Bureau of Highways, 1915-1921)
Folder F3778:292-293
17. HISTORY AND ORGANIZATION. 1935, 1960, 1967.
Physical Description:
1ff. and 1 Vol.
Scope and Content Note
Arranged chronologically.
Reports describing the history, organization, operation, and statutory basis of the Division of Highways.
Statutes Relating to the Division of Highways (1935)
Scope and Content Note
Indexed compilation of constitutional provisions and statutes affecting the Division.
A Brief History of the California Division of Highways (1960)
Scope and Content Note
Thirty-three page history of the Division prepared for training purposes.
Management Survey of Responsibilities and Authorities (1967)
Scope and Content Note
Detailed description of the functions and operations of the departments and districts of the Highway Division. Includes an
organization chart of the Division as a whole and charts of each department. Excellent source of background information on
the operation of the Division.
Office of the Highway Engineer
Folder F3778:294
18. INSTRUCTION MANUAL. 1927.
Physical Description:
1 Vol.
Scope and Content Note
196 page compilation of procedures to be used in the operation of the Division of Highways in general and in the following
specific areas: legal and finance, surveys and engineering design, bridge and structure design, construction, maintenance,
equipment, and accounts.
Folder F3778:295-426
19. CENTRAL FILE. 1912-1959.
Physical Description:
5cf.
Scope and Content Note
Organized by Division of Highways numeric filing system and chronologically thereunder. See numeric file key (F3778:295).
Contains copies of reports, surveys, memoranda, and incoming and outgoing correspondence of the Highway Engineer, the deputy
engineers, and assistant highway engineers of the Highway Engineers Office and the departments comprising the Division of
Highways Headquarters Unit. File contains numerous photographs, blueprints, and maps.
Broken series - only certain subject areas exist.
Includes the following:
.000 Circulars (1937, 1942, 1944, 1950, 1955)
Physical Description:
12ff.
Scope and Content Note
Statements of changes in administrative procedures sent to all district engineers largely dealing with the care and maintenance
of equipment and personnel matters. Material from 1942 and 1944 contains considerable information about war rationing.
.014 Highway Engineer (1942-1943)
Physical Description:
1ff.
Scope and Content Note
Correspondence with the Director of Public Works regarding the erection of road signs by automobile clubs.
.017 Public Relations (1948-1949)
Physical Description:
3ff.
Scope and Content Note
Memoranda between staff members discussing means of improving the Division's public image.
100 ACCOUNTING (1936, 1937, 1941, 1944)
Physical Description:
1ff.
Scope and Content Note
Memoranda relating to accounting procedures.
200.02 Monthly Progress Reports (1942)
Physical Description:
1ff.
Scope and Content Note
Sent to the Director of the Department of Public Works, dealing with general highway construction.
200.46 Airport Runways (1941, 1948)
Physical Description:
3ff.
Scope and Content Note
Reports, memoranda, correspondence, maps, and diagrams involving the investigation of proposed airport sites near state highways.
200.461 Concrete Construction (1928, 1939, 1940, 1942)
Physical Description:
4ff.
Scope and Content Note
Reports on the testing of concrete materials and on construction techniques.
204.47 Rivers and Harbors (1954)
Physical Description:
1ff.
Scope and Content Note
Memoranda and Corps of Engineers bulletins largely dealing with changes in regulations regarding navigable bodies of water.
204.471 Richmond-San Rafael Bridge Studies (1950-1954)
Physical Description:
1ff.
Scope and Content Note
Memoranda, incoming and outgoing correspondence with the Corps of Engineers, resolutions and maps regarding the proposed construction
of a causeway.
400.02 Auto Accidents (1953-1958)
Physical Description:
1ff.
Scope and Content Note
Statistical reports on traffic accidents on rural roads.
400.19 Fire (1935)
Physical Description:
1ff.
Scope and Content Note
Memoranda dealing with road repairs made necessary by the Malibu fire of 1935.
400.21 Buildings (1911-1933)
Physical Description:
6ff.
Scope and Content Note
Memoranda, reports, blueprints and drawings relating to the construction of structures. Includes charcoal drawings of proposed
worker cottages.
400.23 Roadside Beautification (1935, 1951-1958)
Physical Description:
3ff.
Scope and Content Note
Memoranda and correspondence dealing with landscaping.
400.24 Snow Removal (1941, 1958-1959)
Physical Description:
2ff.
Scope and Content Note
Memoranda dealing with snow removal techniques.
400.241 Road and Right of Way Condition (1958)
Physical Description:
3ff.
Scope and Content Note
Memoranda and incoming and outgoing correspondence regarding road conditions, detour information, and requests for road condition
information.
400.244 Extraordinary Emergencies (1938)
Physical Description:
1ff.
Scope and Content Note
Report on the 1938 flood in Riverside and San Bernardino Counties. Includes maps.
400.48 U.S. Highways (1951-1953)
Physical Description:
1ff.
Scope and Content Note
Memoranda dealing with the Division's responsibility for the maintenance of Federal-State highway signs.
400.74 Traffic Hazards (1934, 1942)
Physical Description:
3ff.
Scope and Content Note
Map of obstacles to the normal flow of traffic on State highways (1942), and Los Angeles traffic
reports (1958-1960).
500 SUPPLIES (1934, 1937, 1938)
Physical Description:
1ff.
Scope and Content Note
Memoranda regarding latex filler expansion joints, cements, gravels, and guard rails.
600.51 Personnel Lists (1938, 1939)
Physical Description:
1ff.
600.75 Unemployment Relief (1932-1943, 1949)
Physical Description:
1cf.
Scope and Content Note
Project reports; personnel lists; memoranda; circulars; incoming and outgoing correspondence with Federal and State Agencies
regarding the funding of relief projects, and with labor unions involving their opposition to the use of non-union labor;
and maps showing the location of work camps and/or road projects. Most material deals with the financing of programs.
Relief Employment (1932-1934, 1939-1940, 1949)
Physical Description:
19ff.
Scope and Content Note
Programs funded under the Emergency Relief Construction Act of 1932, and other Federal legislation. of special interest is
a memorandum from T.H. Dennis to Mr. Cullerward (Dec. 11, 1933) regarding the organization of colored maintenance crews in
Oakland.
Forestry Camps (1932-1934)
Physical Description:
7ff.
Scope and Content Note
Memoranda relating to camps financed by the Division of Highways, but operated by the Division of Forestry.
Civilian Works Administration (CWA) (1934)
Physical Description:
11ff.
Scope and Content Note
Largely comprising cost data.
Progress Works Administration (PWA) (1935-1942)
Physical Description:
6ff.
Scope and Content Note
Memoranda and reports on road building projects.
Works Progress Administration (WPA) (1934-1943)
Physical Description:
5ff.
Scope and Content Note
Includes circulars and brochures on the accomplishments of the WPA in California.
700.08 Legal Opinions (1912-1933, 1943-1945)
Physical Description:
8ff.
Scope and Content Note
Opinions on the limits of the Authority of the Division prepared by the Attorney General, the Highway Commission Attorney,
and the Chief of the Division of Rights of Way and Contracts.
800.00 Surveys and Plans (1929-1933)
Physical Description:
5ff.
Scope and Content Note
Reports prepared for the legislature, memoranda, and correspondence regarding proposed expansion of the State secondary road
system. Includes maps.
800.37 Routing and Locations
Scope and Content Note
Interregional Highways (1935-1945), 6ff. - reports, memoranda, and correspondence dealing largely with the construction of
the Sausalito Lateral to the Golden Gate Bridge. Includes a 1930 map of the proposed location of the bridge.
800.38 Designs (1930-1933, 1937)
Physical Description:
3ff.
Scope and Content Note
Incoming and outgoing correspondence with the public involving standard construction techniques used by the Division of Highways.
900.00 Miscellaneous (1959)
Physical Description:
4ff.
Scope and Content Note
Reports prepared for the Governor's Council, agendas of staff meetings, letters received from and copies of letters sent to
the American Association of State Highway Officials; and miscellaneous correspondence with the general public.
900.61 Toll Roads (1931-1935)
Physical Description:
1ff.
Scope and Content Note
Memoranda and correspondence with the public regarding the possible purchase of the Muir Woods Toll Road. Includes maps of
road.
900.62 Stock Trails 1933, 1937-49)
Physical Description:
3ff.
Scope and Content Note
Memoranda and correspondence dealing with existing and proposed stock trails built and maintained by the Division of Highways.
Includes maps.
900.66 Legislation (1944-1946)
Physical Description:
4ff.
Scope and Content Note
Memoranda between staff members, and reports prepared for the Legislature regarding upcoming legislation affecting the highway
program.
900.72 Fairs and Expositions (1935-1950)
Physical Description:
1ff.
Scope and Content Note
Memoranda and drawings dealing with Division exhibits at Fairs, including the 1939 Golden Gate International Exposition and
the New York World's Fair. Includes sketches of exhibits.
900.77 Federal Land Projects (1930-1934)
Physical Description:
4ff.
Scope and Content Note
Memoranda and correspondence with Federal officials regarding the construction of a road on a Hoopa Indian reservation.
900.79 Forest Highways (1919-1947)
Physical Description:
6ff.
Scope and Content Note
Notes on conferences with Federal officials and memoranda dealing with the construction of State roads in Federal forests.
900.81 Parks (1921-1937)
Physical Description:
1ff.
Scope and Content Note
Correspondence with National Park Service officials regarding the maintenance of roads leading to national parks.
Folder F3778:427-476
20. HIGHWAY ENGINEER'S CORRESPONDENCE FILE. 1966, 1972.
Physical Description:
2cf.
Scope and Content Note
Organized alphabetically by subject and chronologically thereunder.
Reports, copies of memoranda between headquarters staff members and incoming and outgoing correspondence of the Highway Engineer,
deputy engineers, and assistant highway engineers comprising the various units of the headquarters unit of the Division of
Highways.
The following subjects are dealt with: bridge construction techniques; the effect of budget cutbacks on programs (see Budgets
and Programs and Maintenance); sound abatement, the construction of sound barriers, and the building of bicycle trails (under
Design); the esthetics of freeway design; disaster preparedness; mapping and surveys; the preparation of environmental impact
reports; future building programs (under Highways); the enforcement of statutes limiting billboards along State highways (under
Landscaping and Legal); analysis of legislation affecting the highway program; the disposal of excess property (under Right
of Way); examinations of the results of special traffic lanes and the allowance of triple trailer trucks on California roads
(under Studies); investigations of traffic hazards; and traffic control techniques including the use of 70 mile an hour speed
limits and minimum speed limits for freeway lanes.
Folder F3778:477-488
21. DAILY JOURNALS OF DEPUTY HIGHWAY ENGINEER, R. M. GILLIS. 1944-1955.
Physical Description:
12 Vols.
Scope and Content Note
Arranged chronologically.
Gillis acted as Assistant Highway Engineer in charge of Operations until July, 1, 1952, when he officially became Deputy Highway
Engineer.
Journals contain a daily accounting of his movements and activities, and brief descriptions of meetings and conferences he
participated in.
II. Contracts and Agreements
Folder F3778:489-1098
22. ROAD CONSTRUCTION CONTRACT FILE. 1912-1932.
Physical Description:
23cf.
Scope and Content Note
Records relating to general contracts placed first, then those relating to day labor contracts (D contracts), and those involving
supplemental contracts (M contracts) thereafter. Thereunder arranged chronologically.
Broken series.
General Construction Contracts (let out to contractors for the construction of roads, bridges, and other structures),
Physical Description:
17½cf.
Scope and Content Note
Copies of contracts and agreements; final reports describing the quality of work completed and providing a history of the
project and the construction techniques used; progress reports and on-site inspection reports by the local division engineer;
laboratory test results on materials used in construction; memoranda between the highway engineer and division engineers dealing
with special difficulties being confronted in construction; incoming and outgoing correspondence between the highway engineer
and contractors regarding delays in construction, requests for extensions or other changes in contracts, and complaints by
the highway engineer about the quality of workmanship; verbatim transcripts of Division of Highways hearings into failures
to complete contracts; audits; court briefs from legal actions against contractors; applications to the California Railroad
Commission to build grade crossings across railroad tracks; scattered advertisements for early road building equipment; blueprints,
alignments and profiles.
Day Labor Contracts (i.e. D-56, contracts requiring the hiring of day labor by the Division of Highways - in some cases including
convict labor),
Physical Description:
1½cf.
Scope and Content Note
Includes progress reports; memoranda between the highway engineer and division engineers regarding the use of convict labor
and problems being faced with free labor; incoming and outgoing correspondence with contractors providing supplementary services
dealing with the fulfillment of their contracts; requests and approvals of purchases of supplies for workers; and alignments
and profiles of construction sites.
Supplemental Contracts (i.e. M-34, contracts for supplemental work after the completion of the main construction of a road
- such as maintenance work, the widening of a shoulder, or the construction of additional bridges),
Physical Description:
½cf.
Scope and Content Note
Contains same types of materials as general contract files with the exception that it lacks legal briefs and photographs.
This series provides the best source of information on early construction techniques.
Records exist dealing with the construction of the following sections of roadway:
1923-24
1A, B424
Physical Description: 1ff.
1923-31
1A443
Physical Description: 2ff., 3Vols.
1918-25
1B248
Physical Description: 5ff.
1913-15
1A44
Physical Description: 1ff.
1914-15
1A60
Physical Description: 1ff.
1917-21
1B211
Physical Description: 3ff.
1921-22
1B316
Physical Description: 1ff.
1914-17
1D71
Physical Description: 1ff.
1914-16
1D2104
Physical Description: 1ff.
1915-17
1E136
Physical Description: 1ff.
1916-17
1E166
Physical Description: 1ff.
1917-23
1F205
Physical Description: 1ff.
1924-26
1F440
Physical Description: 2ff.
1914-16
1G105
Physical Description: 1ff.
1916-19
1G169
Physical Description: 1ff.
1919-21
1G240
Physical Description: 1ff.
1924-26
1G, H444
Physical Description: 2ff.
1917-20
1H220
Physical Description: 1ff.
1919-21
1J249
Physical Description: 1ff.
1922-25
1J377
Physical Description: 2ff.
1912-16
1A2
Physical Description: 4ff.
1914-19
1B87
Physical Description: 1ff.
1922-23
1B387
Physical Description: 1Vol.
1912-16
1C24
Physical Description: 1ff.
1914-23
1D57
Physical Description: 1ff.
1922-28
1D,E,F354
Physical Description: 2Vols.
1912-16
1E20
Physical Description: 1ff.
1917-19
1F215
Physical Description: 1ff.
1918-20
1F232
Physical Description: 1ff.
1921-22
1G304
Physical Description: 1ff.
1921-22
1G305
Physical Description: 1ff.
1921-22
1G306
Physical Description: 1ff.
1921-23
1G321
Physical Description: 1ff.
1922-24
15A398
Physical Description: 1ff.
1922-23
15A401-2
Physical Description: 1ff.
1919-20
16A247
Physical Description: 1ff.
1921-23
48C340
Physical Description: 1ff.
1916
1BD-113
Physical Description: 1ff.
1913-14
1DD-4
Physical Description: 1ff.
1919-20
1GD-208
Physical Description: 1ff.
1910-18
1JD-56
Physical Description: 9ff.
1921-22
29B334
Physical Description: 1ff.
1922-24
29B400
Physical Description: 1ff.
1921-23
29C312
Physical Description: 1ff.
1922-24
29C,D380
Physical Description: 1ff.
1927
29C, D441
Physical Description: 1ff.
1924-25
29CM-48
Physical Description: 1ff.
1922-24
29A388
Physical Description: 1ff.
1924-25
29A427
Physical Description: 1ff.
1922-25
37A,B,C381
Physical Description: 1ff.
1924-26
37C442
Physical Description: 1ff.
1917-20
3A200
Physical Description: 2ff.
1916-23
3A278
Physical Description: 1ff.
1921-22
3A346
Physical Description: 1ff.
1915-16
3B144
Physical Description: 1ff.
1914-16
3B145
Physical Description: 1ff.
1917-21
3B203
Physical Description: 1ff.
1918-20
3B225
Physical Description: 1ff.
1923-25
3B431
Physical Description: 1ff.
1914-16
3B,C85
Physical Description: 1ff.
1916-17
3C174
Physical Description: 1ff.
1918-20
3C199
Physical Description: 3ff.
1914-16
3D75
Physical Description: 1ff.
1917-25
3D189
Physical Description: 1ff.
1918-19
3D224
Physical Description: 1ff.
1917-21
20A,B241
Physical Description: 4ff.
1917-19
3CD-219
Physical Description: 1ff.
1919-26
20A,BD226, 327, 396, 558
Physical Description: 1ff.
1927-28
3CM-118
Physical Description: 1ff.
1926-32
3CM-143
Physical Description: 1ff.
1914-15
3A100
Physical Description: 1ff.
1915-17
3A155
Physical Description: 1ff.
1918-20
3A235
Physical Description: 1ff.
1921-23
3A313
Physical Description: 1ff.
1922-24
3A373
Physical Description: 1ff.
1916-20
3A,B180
Physical Description: 1ff.
1921-24
3B415
Physical Description: 2ff.
1914-18
3C66
Physical Description: 2ff.
1914-19
3C118
Physical Description: 2ff.
1927-28
3AM-195
Physical Description: 1ff.
1927-28
3A,BM-164
Physical Description: 1ff.
1915-16
3B135
Physical Description: 1ff.
1916-17
3B-7-A162
Physical Description: 1ff.
1915-16
3C142
Physical Description: 1ff.
1923-25
3D434
Physical Description: 1ff.
1921-25
20A311
Physical Description: 1ff.
1919-22
20E242
Physical Description: 1ff.
1922-24
54A394
Physical Description: 1ff.
1917-19
3A207
Physical Description: 1ff.
1914-20
3D70
Physical Description: 4ff.
1918-22
21A227
Physical Description: 2ff.
1921-24
21A282
Physical Description: 1ff.
1921
47A307
Physical Description: 1ff.
1918
3BD-196
Physical Description: 1ff.
1914
7B99
Physical Description: 1ff.
1922
7-15B,F374
Physical Description: 1ff.
1915-17
7C139
Physical Description: 2ff.
1914, 16-17
15A117
Physical Description: 2ff.
1922-24
15B393
Physical Description: 1ff.
1915-18
7A113
Physical Description: 2ff.
1915-16
7B140
Physical Description: 1ff.
1915-17
7B172
Physical Description: 1ff.
1914-15
7C77
Physical Description: 1ff.
1921
7C303
Physical Description: 1ff.
1921-22
7C335
Physical Description: 1ff.
1923-24
47A417
Physical Description: 1ff.
1917-20
17A,B209
Physical Description: 2ff.
1923-26
37B419
Physical Description: 1ff.
1924-25
38A432
Physical Description: 1ff.
1924-26
446
Physical Description: 1ff.
1912-14
3A12-13
Physical Description: 1ff.
1913-19
3A165
Physical Description: 1ff.
1922-23
3A407
Physical Description: 1ff.
1915-17
3B156
Physical Description: 1ff.
1916-18
17A168
Physical Description: 1ff.
1916-17
17B164
Physical Description: 1ff.
1921-24
17C285
Physical Description: 1ff.
1922-23
17C,A382
Physical Description: 1ff.
1915-16
11A112
Physical Description: 1ff.
1921-23
34A287
Physical Description: 1ff.
1925-26
3BM-67
Physical Description: 1ff.
1925-26
3BM-68
Physical Description: 1ff.
1926
3BM-129
Physical Description: 1ff.
1926-30
3BM-167
Physical Description: 1ff.
1925-26
4BM-100
Physical Description: 1ff.
1921-22
5A347
Physical Description: 1ff.
1921-23
24A336
Physical Description: 2ff.
1926-27
11FM-127
Physical Description: 1ff.
1914-19
7A79
Physical Description: 3ff.
1914-16
7B114
Physical Description: 2ff.
1914-18
7C74
Physical Description: 1ff.
1922-23
7C364
Physical Description: 1ff.
1917-19
7E186
Physical Description: 1ff.
1917-20
8A183
Physical Description: 1ff.
1912-13
4A5
Physical Description: 1ff.
1913-14
4B25
Physical Description: 1ff.
1918-20
13A222
Physical Description: 1ff.
1926-27
4B-B,AM-119
Physical Description: 1ff.
1915-16
3A121
Physical Description: 1ff.
1915-16
3C122
Physical Description: 2ff.
1921-24
13A332
Physical Description: 1ff.
1915-16
6A124
Physical Description: 1ff.
1914-16
6B86
Physical Description: 3ff.
1915-17
6B160
Physical Description: 1ff.
1915-16
6C127
Physical Description: 1ff.
1914-15
7A82
Physical Description: 1ff.
1920-21
7B268
Physical Description: 1ff.
1917-22
7C191
Physical Description: 1ff.
1915-19
6AD-147
Physical Description: 1ff.
1912-13
3B4
Physical Description: 1ff.
1922-24
3B410
Physical Description: 1ff.
1912-23
3BD-376
Physical Description: 1ff.
1916
5A90
Physical Description: 1ff.
1922
5A108
Physical Description: 1ff.
1916
5A192
Physical Description: 1ff.
1923-24
5A366
Physical Description: 2ff.
1917
5B143
Physical Description: 1ff.
1918
5B179
Physical Description: 1ff.
1916
5C61
Physical Description: 1ff.
1918-19
5C230
Physical Description: 2ff.
1914
5D62
Physical Description: 1ff.
1920
5CD-7
Physical Description: 1ff.
1928
5BM-168
Physical Description: 1ff.
1914-16
14A91
Physical Description: 1ff.
1915-21
14A130
Physical Description: 1ff.
1916-18
14A170
Physical Description: 1ff.
1915-17
14B103
Physical Description: 1ff.
1915-16
14B141
Physical Description: 1ff.
1917-21
14B201
Physical Description: 1ff.
1922-23
14B411
Physical Description: 1ff.
1926-28
14AM-117
Physical Description: 1ff.
1915-16
1A150
Physical Description: 1ff.
1917-22
1A208
Physical Description: 3ff.
1916-17
1B173
Physical Description: 1ff.
1917-18
8A214
Physical Description: 1ff.
1918-19
8A234
Physical Description: 1ff.
1922-25
52A375
Physical Description: 1ff.
1919-20
1AD-226
Physical Description: 1ff.
1926-27
1BM-136
Physical Description: 1ff.
1926-27
1BM-144
Physical Description: 1ff.
1914-25
8A163
Physical Description: 4ff.
1921-24
8A317
Physical Description: 1ff.
1926-28
8AM-153
Physical Description: 1ff.
1917-20
8B193
Physical Description: 1ff.
1922-27
49A399
Physical Description: 2ff.
IV
San Francisco-San Mateo
1921-22
55A349
Physical Description: 1ff.
1914-15
2A54
Physical Description: 1ff.
1912-15
2A11
Physical Description: 1ff.
1913
2A229
Physical Description: 1ff.
1913-15
2A326
Physical Description: 1ff.
1913-15
2A434
Physical Description: 1ff.
1913-15
2B122
Physical Description: 1ff.
1922-24
55A,B404
Physical Description: 3ff.
1923-24
55B422
Physical Description: 1ff.
1924-26
55C439
Physical Description: 1ff.
1924-31
68B448
Physical Description: 1ff.
1923-26
2AM-148
Physical Description: 1ff.
1923-24
2A,BM-25
Physical Description: 1ff.
1926-37
2BM-137
Physical Description: 1ff.
1912-14
2A114
Physical Description: 1ff.
1912-15
2A215
Physical Description: 1ff.
1913-14
2A332
Physical Description: 1ff.
1914-16
2A488
Physical Description: 1ff.
1913-15
2B23
Physical Description: 1ff.
1913-15
2B28
Physical Description: See.#23
1914-16
2B64
Physical Description: 1ff.
1913-17
2C35
Physical Description: 2ff.
1914-17
2C72
Physical Description: 1ff.
1921-24
2C320
Physical Description: 1ff.
1921-22
2C327
Physical Description: 1ff.
1921-23
2C343
Physical Description: 1ff.
1922-24
2C389
Physical Description: 1ff.
1914-16
5A89
Physical Description: 1ff.
1915-17
5B102
Physical Description: 2ff.
1915-19
5B146
Physical Description: 2ff.
1922-24
32A425
Physical Description: 1ff.
1922-24
32B,C355
Physical Description: 2ff.
1923-30
32B,C437
Physical Description: 1ff.
1914-16
5A49
Physical Description: 1ff.
1914-17
5A83
Physical Description: 1ff.
1919-20
5A243
Physical Description: 1ff.
1920-22
5A,B270
Physical Description: 1ff.
1921-24
1A314
Physical Description: 1ff.
1022-23
1A408
Physical Description: 1ff.
1923-24
1A423
Physical Description: 1ff.
1915
1B15
Physical Description: 1ff.
1915-16
1C128
Physical Description: 1ff.
1915-16
1C129
Physical Description: 1ff.
1916-19
1C177
Physical Description: 1ff.
1917-21
1C206
Physical Description: 1ff.
1922-23
1C369
Physical Description: 1ff.
1916-21
2B167
Physical Description: 1ff.
1915-17
8A158
Physical Description: 2ff.
1921-23
8A,B323
Physical Description: 1ff.
1923-24
8B420
Physical Description: 1ff.
1922-24
51A359
Physical Description: 1ff.
1923-25
51B433
Physical Description: 1ff.
1912-15
1BD-16
Physical Description: 2ff.
1915-18
1BD-57
Physical Description: 1ff.
1925-26
1CM-102
Physical Description: 1ff.
1927-28
8A,BM-162
Physical Description: 1ff.
1926-
8BM-121
Physical Description: 1ff.
1913-14
2A41-
Physical Description: 1ff.
1915-16
2A131
Physical Description: 1ff.
1915-16
2B137
Physical Description: 1ff.
1917-18
2C194
Physical Description: 1ff.
1915-18
2D152
Physical Description: 3ff.
1915-18
2E133
Physical Description: 2ff.
1918-20
2E,F216
Physical Description: 1ff.
1919-21
2F244
Physical Description: 3ff.
1922
2F356
Physical Description: 1ff.
1924-27
2F436
Physical Description: 1ff.
1918-20
2G236
Physical Description: 1ff.
1915-17
2H132
Physical Description: 1ff.
1918-20
2I233
Physical Description: 1ff.
1923-26
10A357
Physical Description: 8ff.
1923-25
56E395
Physical Description: 4ff.
1926-27
2DM-138
Physical Description: 1ff.
1924-27
2HM-125
Physical Description: 1ff.
1913-14
2A41-42
Physical Description: 1ff.
1922-23
2A362
Physical Description: 1ff.
1922-24
22B412
Physical Description: 1ff.
1926-27
22AM-124
Physical Description: 1ff.
1914-16
2A56
Physical Description: 1ff.
1915-18
2B154
Physical Description: 1ff.
1914-15
2C55
Physical Description: 1ff.
1914-17
2D110
Physical Description: 1ff.
1922-34
2D360
Physical Description: 2ff.
1914-16
2F84
Physical Description: 4ff.
1917-21
2F210
Physical Description: 2ff.
1915-17
7D111
Physical Description: 1ff.
1921-22
33A283
Physical Description: 1ff.
1921-22
33B302
Physical Description: 1ff.
1918-20
33C239
Physical Description: 1ff.
1921-24
56A331
Physical Description: 2ff.
1921-23
57A337
Physical Description: 1ff.
1922-23
57A363
Physical Description: 1ff.
1918-24
33CD-369
Physical Description: 1ff.
1927
33A,BM-170
Physical Description: 1ff.
1913-14
2B227
Physical Description: 1ff.
1914-16
2A95
Physical Description: 1ff.
1913-17
2B36
Physical Description: 3ff.
1917-19
2C184
Physical Description: 1ff.
1915-17
2D153
Physical Description: 1ff.
1913-18
2D176
Physical Description: 2ff.
1917-22
2E182
Physical Description: 1ff.
1914-16
2E1115
Physical Description: 1ff.
1914-17
2F92
Physical Description: 1ff.
1917-19
2F197
Physical Description: 1ff.
1917-18
2F197, 198
Physical Description: 1ff.
1918-19
2F229
Physical Description: 1ff.
1921-22
2F,G341
Physical Description: 2ff.
1922-24
2F,G379
Physical Description: 1ff.
1914-16
2G,I109
Physical Description: 1ff.
1913-17
2H45
Physical Description: 3ff.
1921-26
2K318
Physical Description: 1ff.
1921-24
57A352
Physical Description: 2ff.
1920-22
2DD-326
Physical Description: 1ff.
1926-27
2GM-154
Physical Description: 1ff.
1925-26
2HM-103
Physical Description: 1ff.
1926-28
2H,JM-142
Physical Description: 1ff.
1925-26
2J7M-103
Physical Description: 1ff.
1925-27
2KM-122
Physical Description: 1ff.
1924-28
2KM-132
Physical Description: 1ff.
1921-24
4A344
Physical Description: 1ff.
1917-18
4B212
Physical Description: 1ff.
1912-13
4C8
Physical Description: 1ff.
1922-24
10C409
Physical Description: 1ff.
1919-20
10D245
Physical Description: 1ff.
1923-30
10E276
Physical Description: 5ff.
1926
4BM-140
Physical Description: 1ff.
1922-23
23C383
Physical Description: 1ff.
1921-23
23D309
Physical Description: 1ff.
1921-24
23E310
Physical Description: 4ff.
1912-16
4A106
Physical Description: 3ff.
1913-17
4B96
Physical Description: 3ff.
1921-24
4B330
Physical Description: 2ff.
1922-24
4C365
Physical Description: 1ff.
1914-15
4D50
Physical Description: 1ff.
1914-15
4E51
Physical Description: 1ff.
1914-15
4F63
Physical Description: 1ff.
1922-24
33B,C368
Physical Description: 1ff.
1922-23
57A397
Physical Description: 1ff.
1922-25
57F396
Physical Description: 2ff.
1927
4DM-160
Physical Description: 1ff.
1925-26
4FM-112
Physical Description: 1ff.
1925-26
4FM-123
Physical Description: 1ff.
1925-26
23D,G,EM-108
Physical Description: 1ff.
1915-16
10A138
Physical Description: 1ff.
1913-14
4A9,
Physical Description: 1ff.
1922
4A386
Physical Description: 1ff.
1912-13
4B3
Physical Description: 2ff.
1912-14
42C10
Physical Description: 1ff.
1922-25
32A413
Physical Description: 1ff.
1926
4AM-120
Physical Description: 1ff.
1926
28CM-131
Physical Description: 1ff.
1915-18
18A157
Physical Description: 2ff.
1921-23
18D301
Physical Description: 1ff.
1922-24
18E353
Physical Description: 1ff.
1916-17
18BD-108
Physical Description: 1ff.
1926-27
18EM-145
Physical Description: 1ff.
1914-15
4A69
Physical Description: 1ff.
1921-22
4A,C348
Physical Description: 1ff.
1912-15
4C11
Physical Description: 1ff.
1912-15
4D6
Physical Description: 1ff.
1919-23
18A246
Physical Description: 2ff.
1922-24
32A371
Physical Description: 1ff.
1922-24
32B372
Physical Description: 2ff.
1921-25
32C308
Physical Description: 3ff.
1926-27
4AM-141
Physical Description: 1ff.
1927
4AM-161
Physical Description: 1ff.
1921-23
23H,I300
Physical Description: 1ff.
1917-19
4A185
Physical Description: 1ff.
1917-18
4A190
Physical Description: 1ff.
1917-19
4A,B195
Physical Description: 1ff.
1917-22
4B196
Physical Description: 2ff.
1917-22
4C189
Physical Description: 1ff.
1915
4E1125
Physical Description: 1ff.
1915-16
4E1126
Physical Description: 1ff.
1922-25
10F367
Physical Description: 1ff.
1916-17
12A107
Physical Description: 2ff.
1915-16
12A159
Physical Description: 2ff.
1914-19
12B116
Physical Description: 1ff.
1915-19
12C161
Physical Description: 1ff.
1916-19
12C178
Physical Description: 1ff.
1922-23
26F376
Physical Description: 1ff.
1921-27
27A326
Physical Description: 2ff.
1922-26
27A418
Physical Description: 1ff.
1919-20
2A251
Physical Description: 1ff.
1913-15
2B21
Physical Description: 1ff.
1921-22
2B319
Physical Description: 1ff.
1913-15
2C33
Physical Description: 1ff.
1915-16
4A134
Physical Description: 1ff.
1917-19
4A181
Physical Description: 1ff.
1922-24
4A,B392
Physical Description: 1ff.
1914-16
4B101
Physical Description: 1ff.
1914-20
4B120
Physical Description: 1ff.
1917-19
4B202
Physical Description: 1ff.
1921-23
4B,C345
Physical Description: 1ff.
1914-16
4D78
Physical Description: 1ff.
1922-23
4D385
Physical Description: 1ff.
1920-23
4F406
Physical Description: 1ff.
1915-16
9A147
Physical Description: 1ff.
1917-19
9A213
Physical Description: 1ff.
1922-23
9G391
Physical Description: 1ff.
1923-24
9G421
Physical Description: 1ff.
1919
23B237
Physical Description: 1ff.
1919-20
23B250
Physical Description: 1ff.
1923-24
23B428
Physical Description: 1ff.
1925-27
2BM-115
Physical Description: 1ff.
1925-27
2DM-116
Physical Description: 1ff.
1925-27
2DM-139
Physical Description: 1ff.
1925-27
4B, CM-110
Physical Description: 1ff.
1926-27
4EM-150
Physical Description: 1ff.
1925-28
9AM-101
Physical Description: 1ff.
1926-27
9EM-157
Physical Description: 1ff.
1922-24
60A,E403
Physical Description: 2ff.
1914-16
2A119
Physical Description: 1ff.
1915-18
2A123
Physical Description: 1ff.
1922-23
2A378
Physical Description: 1ff.
1919-21
2B252
Physical Description: 1ff.
1914-15
2C98
Physical Description: 1ff.
1922-23
2C370
Physical Description: 1ff.
1913-16
2D,E,F40
Physical Description: 1ff.
1921-22
2F325
Physical Description: 1ff.
1924-30
60A, B435
Physical Description: 1ff.
1924-25
60B449
Physical Description: 1ff.
1926-27
2CM-147
Physical Description: 1ff.
1926-27
2DM-130
Physical Description: 1ff.
1927
60AM-169
Physical Description: 1ff.
1913-15
19A43
Physical Description: 1ff.
1922-26
26B384
Physical Description: 1ff.
1922-23
26C358
Physical Description: 1ff.
1922-23
26D350
Physical Description: 1ff.
1923-24
26D426
Physical Description: 1ff.
1922-23
26E351
Physical Description: 1ff.
1913-17
9A46
Physical Description: 1ff.
1913-14
9B,C38
Physical Description: 1ff.
1914-15
9D53
Physical Description: 1ff.
1913-15
19A,B37
Physical Description: 1ff.
1921-23
31C328
Physical Description: 1ff.
1925-26
19A,BM-107
Physical Description: 1ff.
1912-14
2A7
Physical Description: 1ff.
1913-15
2B30
Physical Description: 1ff.
1917-20
2B221
Physical Description: 1ff.
1913-15
2C39
Physical Description: 1ff.
1914-17
2D58
Physical Description: 1ff.
1914-15
12A59
Physical Description: 1ff.
1918
12A217
Physical Description: 1ff.
1917-18
12D204
Physical Description: 1ff.
1918-19
12D219
Physical Description: 1ff.
1919-21
12GD-231
Physical Description: 2ff.
1926-27
2AM-135
Physical Description: 1ff.
1925-27
2BM-111
Physical Description: 1ff.
1914-16
2B81
Physical Description: 1ff.
1916-17
2B175
Physical Description: 1ff.
1916-18
2C171
Physical Description: 1ff.
1917-18
2C188
Physical Description: 1ff.
1915
2F52
Physical Description: 1ff.
1914-16
2F,G73
Physical Description: 1ff.
1922-23
60A390
Physical Description: 1ff.
1922-26
60A414
Physical Description: 1ff.
1923
60AD-397
Physical Description: 1ff.
1925-26
2B,CM-106
Physical Description: 1ff.
1926-27
2C,BM-155
Physical Description: 1ff.
1926-28
2D,E,F,GM-151
Physical Description: 1ff.
1925-26
2FM-104
Physical Description: 1ff.
1923-29
26H430
Physical Description: 1ff.
1923-24
26A429
Physical Description: 1ff.
1925-26
26BM-105
Physical Description: 1ff.
1925-26
26DM-126
Physical Description: 1ff.
1926-27
26E,FM-133
Physical Description: 1ff.
1926
2BM159
Physical Description: 1ff.
1926-27
2CM-156
Physical Description: 1ff.
1926-27
12A,BM-163
Physical Description: 1ff.
1918
24A228
Physical Description: 1ff.
1924-25
4BM-43
Physical Description: 1ff.
1924-25
4A-DM-50
Physical Description: 1ff.
1925-29
5BM-66
Physical Description: 4ff.
1926-27
5BM-158
Physical Description: 1ff.
1923-24
53B416
Physical Description: 1ff.
Folder F3778:1099-1102
23. FEDERAL AGREEMENTS AND CONTRACTS. 1922-1949.
Physical Description:
4ff.
Scope and Content Note
Organized by district and chronologically thereunder.
Sample: districts I, IV, V, VII.
Agreements and contracts with the Department of Agriculture and the Public Roads Administration regarding cooperative road
construction and maintenance projects under the provisions of the United States Statutes of 1916 (39
Stats., 355), and of 1921 (42
Stats., 212). Includes specifications, bonds, cost estimates, and occasional maps.
Folder F3778:1103-1126
24. FEDERAL AID AND BRIDGE PROJECT FILE. 1914-1922.
Physical Description:
24ff.
Scope and Content Note
Arranged by district, county, route, and section and chronologically thereunder.
Records relating to the construction of roads financed in part by Federal funds, and to the construction of bridges.
Contains surveys, progress reports; agreements with Federal agencies; applications sent to Federal Agencies for funds; construction
contracts; project statements; cost estimates; resolutions by local boards of supervisors requesting bridge construction or
road work; letters received from and copies of letters sent to district engineers regarding progress in construction and local
financing of bridge building projects; maps and blueprints; and photographs.
Folder F3778:1127-1129
25. TIME BOOKS. 1903, 1913-15, 1918.
Physical Description:
3ff.
Scope and Content Note
Arranged chronologically.
A sampling of time books from highway construction projects listing name of worker, his job title, days worked, total time
worked rate of pay per day and weekly pay. Books illustrate that a six or seven day week for State highway workers was not
uncommon. 1918 materials include two books listing freight hauled by Ford trucks, and a powder book listing the amount of
powder used and its dollar value.
Folder F3778:1130-1216
26. ROAD SURVEY FILE. 1912-1940.
Physical Description:
2½cf.
Scope and Content Note
Organized alphabetically by name of road and chronologically thereunder.
Records collected by the headquarters of the Division of Highways relating to surveys of proposed highway routes, and investigation
of public proposals for road construction or public complaints about the condition of existing roads.
Contains: final reports of surveys; memoranda; data on survey costs; petitions; letters received and copies of letters sent
to the public dealing with requests for road surveys, support or opposition to proposed routes, and complaints about the conditions
on existing roads; and frequently maps, profiles, and photographs.
The following roads are included:
Alameda County Test Road (1913-14)
Physical Description:
1ff.
Alaska - Argentine Highway (International Highway) (1930)
Physical Description:
1ff.
Alpine Road (1917-19)
Physical Description:
1ff.
Arroyo Seco Road (1917-19)
Physical Description:
1ff.
Auburn - Cool Road (III Route G5) (1923-27)
Physical Description:
1ff.
Auburn - Emigrant Gap Road (1917-18)
Physical Description:
1ff.
Auburn - Verdi (III Pla-37-C,D,E,F,G,H,, Nev-37-A-D) (1922-27)
Physical Description:
1ff.
Bakersfield - Mojave, Tehachapi Highway (1928)
Physical Description:
1ff.
Bakersfield - Nordoff Survey (1927), Sespe River and Cuyama Valley Route
Physical Description:
1ff.
Beresford - Redwood City Route (1913)
Physical Description:
1ff.
Bridgeport & Markleeville, Mono Lake Basin Road - Route #23 (1917-18
Physical Description:
1ff.
Cajon Pass (1928)
Physical Description:
2ff.
Carmel - San Simeon (1918-19)
Physical Description:
1ff.
Cholame Pass (1917-29)
Physical Description:
2ff.
Coalinga Lateral (1925, 1927)
Physical Description:
1ff.
Cuyama Road (1918-26)
Physical Description:
2ff.
Dog Valley Route (Truckee - Verdi Road) (1919-22)
Physical Description:
2ff.
Donner-McKinney Road (1917-19)
Physical Description:
1ff.
Downieville Lateral (Route #25) (1923, 1927)
Physical Description:
1ff.
El Camino Real (1912)
Physical Description:
1ff.
El Centro - Yuma (1915)
Physical Description:
1ff.
Folsom - Placerville Route (1912, 1915, 1927, 1928)
Physical Description:
1ff.
Foxen Canyon & Los Olivos S.B. Co. (1929)
Physical Description:
1ff.
Gold Run (1928)
Physical Description:
1ff.
Grass Valley - Colfax Road (1929-30)
Physical Description:
1ff.
Hanford - Visalia Route (1912-13)
Physical Description:
1ff.
Humboldt - Trinity Lateral (1917-19)
Physical Description:
1ff.
Jackson Lateral (1917)
Physical Description:
1ff.
Lake Tahoe - Auburn Road (1917-19)
Physical Description:
1ff.
Lake Tahoe - Crystal City Road (1917-20)
Physical Description:
1ff.
Lake Tahoe - (Homewood) Road (1915-18)
Physical Description:
2ff.
Lake Tahoe - Ukiah Road (1917-27)
Physical Description:
4ff.
Lake Tahoe Road (1916-22, 1925-27)
Physical Description:
1ff.
Lancaster Road Antelope Valley) (1921)
Physical Description:
1ff.
Lankershim Yard & Shops (1926)
Physical Description:
1ff.
Lawley Toll Road (1920-22)
Physical Description:
1ff.
Lincoln Highway (1921)
Physical Description:
1ff.
Los Angeles Forest Route (San Gabriel Canyon) (1924-26)
Physical Description:
1ff.
Madera - Tulare - Fresno - Kings, Oiling of Portions (1930)
Physical Description:
1ff.
Madera - Yosemite (1922-40)
Physical Description:
1ff.
Maricopa - Ventura - Santa Barbara Route (1926)
Physical Description:
1ff.
Marysville - Grass Valley Route (1919).
Mission Road San Jose (1914)
Physical Description:
1ff.
Modoc County Lateral (1915-16)
Physical Description:
1ff.
Mother Lode Highway (1922-26)
Physical Description:
1ff.
National Old Trails Road, Routes 31 & 58 (1925-28)
Physical Description:
1ff.
North Coast Route (1912-13)
Physical Description:
1ff.
North Valley Route (1911-18)
Physical Description:
1ff.
Oroville - Willows Road (1919-20)
Physical Description:
1ff.
Oxnard San Juan Capistrano (1918-25, 1927)
Physical Description:
1ff.
[UNK] Pass Road (1915-24)
Physical Description:
1ff.
Pacific Highway (1924)
Physical Description:
1 ff.
Pacific Short Line Route #56 (1926)
Physical Description:
1ff.
Pescadero - Redwood State Park Road (1916)
Physical Description:
1ff.
Pioneer Memorial Bridge, Sacramento (1926-29, 1966)
Physical Description:
1ff.
Piute Pass Road (1922)
Physical Description:
1ff.
Redding - Alturas Lateral (1919-21)
Physical Description:
1ff.
Redwood Highway (1924-25)
Physical Description:
1ff.
Rumsey Lower Lake Road (1916, 1920-26)
Physical Description:
1ff.
San Emigdio Canyon & Sespe River (1927)
Physical Description:
1ff.
Santa Monica - Huenema (1917)
Physical Description:
1ff.
Sears' Point Toll Road (1921-37)
Physical Description:
4ff.
Selma - Tulare Direct Route (1911-1913)
Physical Description:
1ff.
Silver Lake Cutoff (1922-26)
Physical Description:
1ff.
Skyline Blvd. (n.d.)
Physical Description:
1ff.
Southern Coast Route (L.A. to Yuma) (1912, 1919-21)
Physical Description:
1ff.
South Valley Route (1912-13)
Physical Description:
1ff.
Tahoe City - Nevada State Line (1917)
Physical Description:
1ff.
Tejon - Tehachapi (1912-13)
Physical Description:
1ff.
Tioga Road (1920-21)
Physical Description:
1ff.
Tri-County Road (1918-19)
Physical Description:
1ff.
Truckee to Verdi Highway (1920, 1923)
Physical Description:
1ff.
Victory Highway - Salt Lake & San Francisco (1922-25)
Physical Description:
1ff.
Walker Pass Road (1919)
Physical Description:
1ff.
Watsonville - Riverside Route (1911-12)
Physical Description:
1ff.
West Side Highway - San Joaquin Co. (1928-29)
Physical Description:
1ff.
Williams - Oroville Lateral Route #45 (1919)
Physical Description:
1ff.
Folder F3778:1217-1251
27. FIELD SURVEY NOTEBOOKS. 1878, 1899-1902, 1904, 1907, 1909-1915, 1923-1924, and undated.
Physical Description:
4cf.
Scope and Content Note
Organized alphabetically by name of survey and chronologically thereunder.
Field notes, cross section books, level and transit books, alignment and grade books, and yardage books compiled by survey
times of the Division of Highways, the Department of Engineering, and the Department of Highways, as well as private engineers
under contract.
Survey books provide information on the alignment, elevation and angle of proposed routes for state roads; contain descriptions
of the vegetation and soil conditions, impediments to construction, and the proposed or existing location of culverts, retaining
walls, and areas needing excavation or fill; and frequently include drawings of proposed routes showing buildings, existing
roads, rivers and topography, and illustrations of culverts and other proposed structures.
Surveys include:
Alpine State Road (1912)
Physical Description:
2ff.
Auburn - McKinney's State Road (1915)
Physical Description:
2ff.
Downieville - Mt. Pleasant Road (1907, 1911)
Physical Description:
2ff.
Graves Road - Emerald Bay (1914)
Physical Description:
1ff.
King River Canon Road (n.d.)
Physical Description:
1ff.
Scope and Content Note
Cross section book only.
Lee Vining Creek Survey (1901-02)
Physical Description:
1ff.
McKinney's - Lake Tahoe Road (1911)
Physical Description:
2ff.
Scope and Content Note
Includes geological books containing road maps showing rock formations.
Mono Lake Basin Road (1899-1900, 1904, 1909)
Physical Description:
2ff.
Scope and Content Note
Includes calculations of earth work to be done and the cost of road construction.
Myers - McKinney's Road (1912)
Physical Description:
1ff.
Scope and Content Note
Survey of completed road.
Pasadena Highway Survey. (1916)
Physical Description:
3ff.
Redwood State Park Road (1914)
Physical Description:
3ff.
Scope and Content Note
Includes map.
Route 3 (II, Sis., 3-B) (1923-24)
Physical Description:
3ff.
Scope and Content Note
Composed largely of books showing proposed structures and listing gravel and labor to be used in the project.
Shasta - Humboldt Road. (See Trinity - Humboldt Road)
San Joaquin Roads - including Malilya, Sespe, Bear Creek, Cuyuma, and Cieneza (n.d.)
Physical Description:
2ff.
Township 1N. Range 25E. Mount Diablo Meridian (1878)
Physical Description:
1ff.
Trinity - Humboldt Road - Mad River Route (includes Shasta - Humboldt Road) (1904, 1907, 1910-12)
Physical Description:
5ff.
Trinity - Humboldt Road - Rejected Plan (1904, 1907)
Physical Description:
2ff.
Trinity State Road - Western Extension (1915)
Physical Description:
1ff.
Trinity, Tehama, and Shasta Road (1914)
Physical Description:
1ff.
Folder F3778:1252-1274
28. TRAFFIC STUDIES. 1947-1955, and Undated.
Physical Description:
2cf.
Scope and Content Note
Organized into the following categories in the following order: Urban Traffic Pattern Reports - arranged alphabetically by
city or county; Traffic Counts - organized by highway district; and Highway Traffic Reports - arranged chronologically.
Urban Traffic Pattern Surveys (1947-1949)
Physical Description:
13ff.
Scope and Content Note
Surveys of traffic patterns containing recommendations; summaries of findings; narrative descriptions of traffic patterns;
descriptions of survey techniques used; maps; and charts and graphs illustrating vehicular movements and the origin and destination
of traffic.
Bakersfield (1954) Final report.
Fresno (1955) Final report.
Sacramento (1949) Final report.
San Diego (County) (1948) Rough draft of survey.
San Francisco (1947-49)
In addition to a draft of a traffic survey of the city, there is a traffic survey of the Bayshore Freeway; two surveys of
a proposed additional crossing of San Francisco Bay terminating in Alameda County; and a study by the San Francisco Planning
Commission of a proposed San Francisco subway system.
Stockton (1953) Final report.
Traffic Counts (n.d.)
Physical Description:
6ff.
Scope and Content Note
Working papers on the results of traffic count surveys carried out within urban centers within each highway district (District
IX is missing). For each urban center there is a narrative description of the survey, a map showing count stations, a chart
of total vehicles passing in a sixteen hour period (in 1934), and graphs of traffic patterns.
Highway Traffic Reports (1944-1948)
Physical Description:
4ff.
Scope and Content Note
Statistical reports summarizing the average daily vehicle miles traveled and the percentage increase over the preceding year
of traffic over each section of each highway within the state. Separate reports list figures for all traffic and for truck
traffic (1946 to 1948 only - listed in ton miles rather than vehicle miles).
Folder F3778:1275-1277
29. SPECIAL HIGHWAY STUDY REPORTS. 1920-1922, 1930, 1939, 1946, 1951.
Physical Description:
2ff. and 1 Vol.
Scope and Content Note
Arranged chronologically.
Reports on highway construction in California prepared by agencies other than the Division of Highways, or in conjunction
with other agencies.
Report of a Study of the California Highway System, by the U.S. Bureau of Public Roads (1920)
Scope and Content Note
Provides historical background on highway construction in the state, data on the present condition of roadways and the projected
future need for roadways, and recommendations. Includes a map of existing roads.
Report of Highway Research at Pittsburg, California (1921-1922)
Scope and Content Note
Deals with existing condition of roadways, traffic patterns, and projected analysis of causes of roadway failure in the area.
Report of a Survey of Traffic on the Federal Aid Highway System of Eleven Western States, by the U.S. Bureau of Public Roads
and the State Departments of Highways of the states involved (1930)
Scope and Content Note
Traffic counts of trucks and automobiles in the Western United States, and a projection of future traffic patterns.
Highway Facts Developed from California State-wide Planning Survey, by U.S. Bureau of Public Roads and the California Division
of Highways (1939)
Scope and Content Note
Contains results of inventory of the State's rural road system, data on traffic counts of the volume and distribution of traffic
on rural roads, and information on rural road expenditures.
Engineering Facts, 1946, and a Future Program, prepared for the Joint Fact-finding Committee on Highway, Streets and Bridges
(1946)
Scope and Content Note
Includes a history of the road construction program in the state, a description of current building plans, and recommendations
for future construction. Contains numerous charts and photographs.
Partial Report of the Senate Interim Committee on Highways, Streets and Bridges (1951)
Scope and Content Note
Summary chart of state highway funding deficiencies.
Folder F3778:1278-1291
30. PREVAILING WAGE DATA. 1940-1943, 1953-1957.
Physical Description:
14ff.
Scope and Content Note
Quarterly reports placed first, arranged chronologically; tabulations placed thereafter, organized by district.
The Division of Highways constantly researched prevailing wage rates for construction labor in various regions in the State
for use in assessing proposed contracts.
Quarterly Reports (broken series), 1953-1957
Scope and Content Note
List by county the prevailing rates paid to various construction and other skilled workers.
Tabulations - 1940-1943
Scope and Content Note
Charts listing wages paid by contractors and other employers within a particular district for various types of construction
labor.
Folder F3778:1292-1321, 1352
31. RECORDS OF THE JOINT BANK PROTECTION COMMITTEE. 1937-1960.
Physical Description:
1cf.
Scope and Content Note
Organized into the following categories in the following order: minutes; reports and district correspondence; special studies;
installation
correspondence; installation photographs; embankment contracts; and bibliography. Arranged chronologically thereunder unless
otherwise noted below.
The Joint Bank Protection Committee was first established by the Highway Engineer in 1949. Composed of a member each of the
Design, Bridge, Construction, and Maintenance Departments, it is charged with investigating means of preventing water erosion
along highways and bridges, and with reviewing proposals for bank protection work.
Folder F3778:1292
Minutes (1949-1950, 1961)
Physical Description:
1ff.
Scope and Content Note
Brief one page highlights of points dealt with during meetings. Contains information on the establishment and goals of the
Committee.
Folder F3778:1293-1299
Reports and District Correspondence (1949-1960)
Physical Description:
7ff.
Scope and Content Note
Organized by district. Plans submitted by districts for bank protection work; review of plans by the Committee; reports on
progress of work; and maps.
Folder F3778:1300-1313
Special Studies (1950-1959)
Physical Description:
14ff.
Scope and Content Note
Arranged by district, route, county, and section - reports on storm damage and failure of embankments; reports on construction
and repair projects; memoranda prepared by the Committee on its field investigations; charts and drawings.
Folder F3778:1314-1321
Installation Correspondence (1950-1960)
Physical Description:
8ff.
Scope and Content Note
Memoranda between committee members regarding proposed construction projects, possible means of solving erosion problems;
revisions of standard embankment contract forms; construction progress reports; communications with District Engineers regarding
the progress of projects; and copies of contracts.
Folder F3778:1322-1351
Installation Photographs (1937-1959)
Physical Description:
1cf.
Scope and Content Note
Arranged by district. Photographic essays of installations to prevent erosion and of failure of such installations caused
by wave action and storm damage. Filed separately.
Folder F3778:1352).
Bibliography (Dec. 12, 1949)
Physical Description:
1 Vol.
Scope and Content Note
List and brief abstract of all reference materials used by the Committee - including texts, professional papers, final construction
reports, and letters of patent.
Folder F3778:1353-1360
32. PHOTOGRAPHIC ALBUMS. 1912-1949.
Physical Description:
8ff.
Scope and Content Note
Organized into the following categories in the following order: general photographs arranged numerically by district number
and by county, road number, and section of road thereunder; and aerial photographs arranged by Division code number (key to
code placed in first folder).
General Photographs (1912-1949)
Scope and Content Note
Of road construction, the use of early road building equipment - including horse drawn equipment, road gangs, road camps,
and construction of buildings, damage done to already constructed roads, scenes of the obstacles faced by road builders, and
views of completed roads.
Aerial Photographs (1938-1941)
Scope and Content Note
Of all District II, used in the planning of roads.
Folder F3778:1361-1371
33. MISCELLANEOUS PHOTOGRAPHS. 1918-1935.
Physical Description:
11 Photograph Boxes.
Scope and Content Note
Arranged alphabetically by subject and thereunder by district, county, route, and section unless otherwise listed below. (See
also series entry 112, MISCELLANEOUS PHOTOGRAPHS).
Photographic prints and negatives used by the Division of Highways in documenting various programs and in preparing reports.
The following subjects are included:
Folder Box 3-F3778:1363; box 7-F3778:1367; box 11-F3778:1371
Bank Protection, Districts I-X. 1922-23.
Scope and Content Note
Prints in box 3, negatives in boxes 7 and 11 - protection dykes, flood gates, sack riprap, pile protection, retaining bulkheads,
retaining walls, slope protection, concrete slope covering, protection fences, wooden stream deflectors, concrete current
deflectors, sand levees, rock diversion dykes, cobble slope paving, metal cribbing, dams, sacked concrete riprap, general
protection work.
Folder Box 3-F3778:1363; box 7-F3778:1367; box 11-F3778:1371
Beautification, Districts I-X. 1930-33.
Scope and Content Note
Prints in box 3, negatives in boxes 7 and 11 - planting wildflowers, shrubs, trees; picnic areas, roadside fountains, ponds,
parking areas, park sites, cleaning and clearing roadsides, proposed landscaping, scenic points, beach grass planted on sand
dunes, cactus gardens, springs, junk yards, plank roads, Old Araz Stage Depot, Masonic monument, etc.
Folder Box 3-F3778:1363; box 7-F3778:1367
Bitumuls, Districts I-IV, VI, VII, X. 1928-33.
Scope and Content Note
Prints in box 3, negatives in box 7 - spreading, sealing, screening, watering, rolling, broom dragging, armor covering, equipment,
etc.
Folder Box 1-F3778:1361; box 2-F3778:1362; box 7-F3778:1368; box 11-F3778:1371
Bridges, Districts I-X. 1923-36.
Scope and Content Note
Prints in boxes 1-3, negatives in boxes 7, 8 & 11 - includes: timber bridges, steel bridges, stone bridges, footbridge, narrow
bridges, bridges to be rebuilt, overhead bridges, underpass bridges, drawbridges, trestles, creek bridges, suspension bridges,
wood block bridge flooring, log bridges, covered bridges, wood deck bridges, aqueduct crossing, causeways, Colorado River
Bridge (Dist. VIII), Douglas Memorial Bridge (Dist. I), removal of last of famous Rivcon Causeways (Westerly Causeway), bridges
under construction, bridge sites, bridge failures, collapsed spans, bridge repairs, sandblasting, painting, general views
of bridges and bridge conditions, etc.
Folder Box 2-F3778:1362; box 8-F3778:1368
Bridge Crew Pictures, numerical arrangement. 1932-33.
Scope and Content Note
Prints in box 2, negatives in box 8 - sandblasting, spray painting, sand chambers, screens, sand drying, sand house.
Folder Box 2-F3778:1362; box 8-F3778:1368
Defective Road Conditions, Districts I-X. 1928-34.
Scope and Content Note
Prints in box 2, negatives in box 8 - sparp curves, narrow roads, bank protection need, narrow bridges, gutter erosion, blind
turns, poor alignment, slip outs,
slides, poor line or grade, pavement failure, holes, center stripe, fire hazards from unburned roadside vegetation, abandoned
equipment on road during hot weather (Imperial Valley), bad road surfaces, etc.
Folder Box 2-F3778:1362; box 8-F3778:1368
Detours, numerical arrangement. 1929-30.
Scope and Content Note
Prints in box 2, negatives in box 8 - bad detour conditions.
Folder Box 2-F3778:1362; box 9-F3778:1369
Drainage, Districts I-X. 1927-33.
Scope and Content Note
Prints in box 2, negatives in box 8 - broken drain tile, culverts, drain pipes, drainage outlet, swamps, muddy road conditions
for lack of proper drainage, seepage conditions, gravel dykes, spillways, perforated pipe installations, water breaks, washouts,
drainage canal, earth dams, Cordich Investigation, etc.
Folder Box 2-F3778:1362; box 9-F3778:1369
Dust Palliative, numerical arrangement. 1929-30.
Scope and Content Note
Prints in box 2, negatives in box 9. General views of roads ready for dust oil, dust oil work, oiled roads.
Folder Box 2-F3778:1362; box 9-F3778:1369
Earthquake Damage, numerical arrangement. March 3, 1933.
Scope and Content Note
Prints in box 2, negatives in box 9. Alamitos Bay Bridge, San Gabriel River Bridge, Anaheim Bay Bridge, Sunset Beach and Balsa
Chica Clubhouse, Bridge in Brea Canyon, Santa Ana River Overflow Trestle.
Folder Box 2-F3778:1362; box 9-F3778:1369
Earth Roads, Districts I-III, VIII-X. 1927-32.
Scope and Content Note
Prints in box 2, negatives in box 9 - general view of roads, road conditions, construction.
Folder Box 2-F3778:1362
Encroachment, numerical arrangement. 1930-32.
Scope and Content Note
Prints in box 2 - telephone poles, signs, sign removal, milk sheds, signs on right of way, Death Valley Mining encroachment.
Folder Box 2-F3778:1362; box 4-F3778:1364; box 9-F3778:1369
Equipment, arranged by subject. 1925-33.
Scope and Content Note
Prints in box 2 & 4, negatives in box 9 - air and gas shovels, asphalt patchers and pouring pots, graders, gravel spreaders,
hydraulic and mechanical hoists, loading devices, oil and asphalt heaters, oil processing equipment, portable retort and boiler,
road drays, road mix machines, road planers, rollers, scarifiers, scrapers and attachments, snow removal equipment, sweepers
or power brooms, tree watering outfits. Miscellaneous equipment includes: scoop shovel designed by T.O. Bedford - Dist. I,
portable screening plant, rock crusher, China pump and water wheel, water wheel on Klamath River, oil tank wrecks, tramway
for transporting rock, water tanks, detail of hitch and semi-trailer, chain and shovel for chaining off asphaltic exposure,
pavement repositioning outfit for bringing slabs into place after earthquake damage, trap for reloading stockpile material
(built by Norman Helgen), pilot car used on one-way traffic control, quarry for production of road dressing - Napa.
Folder Box 4-F3778:1364; box 9-F3778:1369
Gravel Roads, Districts I-IV, VIII-X. 1927-34.
Scope and Content Note
Prints in box 4, negatives in box 9 - road surfaces, eroded shoulders, grade work, old railroad cut, general views of roads
and road work.
Folder Box 4-F3778:1364; box 9-F3778:1369
Gutters, numerical arrangement. 1927.
Scope and Content Note
Prints in box 4, negatives in box 9 - views of needed gutter improvements.
Folder Box 5-F3778:1364; box 9-F3778:1369
Maintenance Sites, Districts I-XI, headquarters. 1925-35.
Scope and Content Note
Prints in box 4, negatives in box 9 - includes: general views of office buildings, headquarters shops, maintenance stations,
yards, foremen's cottages, truck sheds, oil storage, proposed sites, storage plants, bunkhouses, heating plants, terrain,
Liebre station fire, building construction, gardens, beautification, etc.
Folder Box 9-F3778:1369
Mud Jack Work, numerical arrangement. 1931.
Scope and Content Note
Negatives in box 9 - mud jack equipment, work progress, experimental work, Ford express, crew, caution signs.
Folder Box 4-F3778:1364; box 9-F3778:1369
Oil Material Roads, Districts I-IV, VI, VIII, IX. 1925, 26, 29.
Scope and Content Note
Prints in box 4, negatives in box 9 - pot holes in road, making dips for passage of water, widening, oiled slopes, rutted
oil top by rains, oiling volcanic ash, road conditions when taken over by Commission, California Redwood Park entrance, etc.
Folder Box 4-F3778:1364; box 9-F3778:1369
Oil Processing in Progress, Districts I-X. 1923-32.
Scope and Content Note
Prints in box 4, negatives in box 9 - blanket top, smoothing, mixing and spreading, traffic control, screening and rolling,
rock tack, armor coating, oil macadam, patching crew at work, cleaning pavement, brooming, men and equipment at work, etc.
Folder Box 4-F3778:1364
Out-of-State, numerical arrangement. 1924, 27, 30, and n.d.
Scope and Content Note
Prints in box 4 - Idaho - scarifying work in Lewiston; Nevada - brush fence used to prevent sand from blowing on highway,
macadam oil road; Oregon - site of Boulder Dam, Klamath River Highway; Washington - street scarifying work in Walla Walla.
Folder Box 4-F3778:1364; box 9-F3778:1369; box 11-F3778:1371
Patching, Districts I-VII, X. 1920, 1926-32.
Scope and Content Note
Prints in box 4, negatives in boxes 9 & 11 - patching of old gravel roads, premix patching, oil patching crew, bitumul patcher,
oil seal mix, general road surface conditions and repairing.
Folder Box 4-F3778:1364; box 9-F3778:1369
Permits, numerical arrangement. 1926.
Scope and Content Note
Prints in box 4, negatives in box 9 - telephone line survey and route, power lines, survey crew, etc.
Folder Box 4-F3778:1364; box 9-F3778:1369
Railroad Crossings, Districts I-VIII, X. 1928-33.
Scope and Content Note
Prints in box 4, negatives in box 9 - general views of crossings, signs, signals, covered railroad bridge (Dist. I, Hum.).
Folder Box 4-F3778:1364; box 9-F3778:1369
Relief Employment, numerical arrangement. 1933.
Scope and Content Note
Prints in box 4, negatives in box 9 - rock wall protection, road widening and slope protection, rock gutters, tree and brush
trimming, planting, etc. (Los Angeles, Marin, Riverside, San Bernardino, San Diego, Santa Clara Counties).
Folder Box 4-F3778:1364; box 9-F3778:1369; box 11-F3778:1371
Safety Devices, Districts I-VIII, X. 1927-33.
Scope and Content Note
Prints in box 4, negatives in boxes 9 & 11 - guard rails, caution signs, cattle guards, demolished guard rails caused by vehicles
going over bank, rubble masonry walls, visibility posts, snow markers, road barricades, flasher signals, safety signs, floodlights,
seawalls, illuminated signs, whitewashed trees, marking discs, reflector tests, wind break, etc.
Folder Box 4-F3778:1364; box 9-F3778:1369
Sand Drifts, numerical arrangement. 1929, 30.
Scope and Content Note
Prints in box 4, negatives in box 9 - sand drifts on highway (Imperial Co.), view of sand blows near prison camp (Monterey
Co.), sand chimney.
Folder Box 4-F3778:1364; box 9-F3778:1369
Shoulders, Districts I-VIII, X. 1923-33.
Scope and Content Note
Prints in box 4, negatives in box 9 - narrow shoulders, oil sealed, sloped, widened, slack, pavement raveling, shoulder higher
than pavement, general views of shoulders and shoulder work.
Folder Box 4-F3778:1364; box 9-F3778:1369; box 11-F3778:1371
Signs, Signals, Districts I-X. 1926, 1929-33.
Scope and Content Note
Prints in box 4, negatives in boxes 9 & 11 - directional, route, warning, stop, construction caution, curves, danger, speed,
load limit, overhead signs, reflectorized signs, illuminated, signal lights, black and white striped barricades, Prehistoric
Indian Maze (Dist. VIII), out-of-state, misc.
Folder Box 4-F3778:1364; box 9-F3778:1369; box 11-F3778:1371
Slides, Slide Removal, Districts I-X. 1929-33.
Scope and Content Note
Prints in box 4, negatives in boxes 9 & 11 - bank erosion, slip out, sinks, slide conditions, log guards, snow slides, slide
prevention, sloughing, slide removal, traffic blocking, bulkheads, clearing operations, detours, etc.
Folder Box 5-F3778:1365; box9 -F3778:1369
Snow Fences, numerical arrangement. 1930-34.
Scope and Content Note
Prints in box 5, negatives in box 9 - locations, snow posts, general views, etc.
Folder Box 5-F3778:1365; box 9-F3778:1371
Snow Removal, Districts I-III, VI-X. 1927-36.
Scope and Content Note
Prints in box 5, negatives in box 9 & 11 - snow removal operations, shelter houses for snowbound motorists, Rotary Plow, Sno
Go, Baker Plow, dog teams, Mt. Shasta, Mt. Shasta City, Red Rock Canyon, drifts, wind action, breaking snow ahead of Sno Go
plow, timber section, out-of-state, Canby maintenance cottage,
general views of road conditions and snow removal operations.
Folder Box 5-F3778:1365; box 10-F3778:1370
Storm Damage, Districts I-X. 1923-36.
Scope and Content Note
Prints in box 5, negatives in box 10 - rock slides, erosion by stream wash, culvert damage by flood waters, bank wash, grade
sloughing, cloudburst damage, roads washed out by rains, mud slides, undermining of pavements, mudflows, railroad span washed
into highway, railroad locomotive at washout, washed out railroad culvert and locomotive, slip out in grades, flooded subways,
high tide over highway, flooded highways, cableway and felled trees showing means of communication, St. Francis Dam failure
- Dist. VII, Tujunga River rampage - Dist. VII, bridge failures, bridge washout, flood conditions in Butte Co., Fremont Bypass,
temporary crossings, flooded cemeteries - Dist. III, etc.
Folder Box 5-F3778:1365; box 10-F3778:1370
Subways, Districts I-VIII, X. 1929-34.
Scope and Content Note
Prints in box 5, negatives in box 10 - general views of subways, underpasses, overhead crossings.
Folder Box 5-F3778:1365; box 10-F3778:1370
Towns and Cities, Districts I-IV, VI-VIII, X. 1924, 1928.
Scope and Content Note
Prints in box 5, negatives in box 10 - Street views - Bakersfield, Belvedere Gardens, Benbow, Berkeley, Chico, Colton, Dunsmuir,
Fresno, Hayward, Marysville, Modesto, Mt. Shasta City, Oakland, Redding, Sacramento, San Bernardino, San Francisco, San Jose,
Tulare.
Folder Box 5-F3778:1365; box 10-1370
Traffic Census, numerical arrangement. n.d.
Scope and Content Note
Prints in box 5, negatives in box 10 - Los Angeles County.
Folder Box 5-F3778:1365; box 10-F3778:1370; box 11 - F3778:1371
Traffic Stripe, Districts I-VIII, X. 1927-33.
Scope and Content Note
Prints in box 5, negatives in boxes 10 & 11 - Experimental, aluminized, petrolastic, embossed, white, yellow, blackline, asphaltic,
raised stripe, out of line, poor center lines, lacquer coverage, bitumul center stripe, deviation from straight line, center
spotting, irregular, corrected, traffic markers, stripping machines, crew and outfits at work, etc.
Folder Box 5-F3778:1365; box 10-F3778:1370; box 11-F3778:1371
Traffic Studies, Districts I-VIII, X. 1926-34.
Scope and Content Note
Prints in box 5, negatives in boxes 10 & 11 - intersections, needed guard rails, bad curves, junctions, signs, narrow bridges,
slack shoulders, proposed signs, wide loads, truck checking stations, parking, traffic count, heavy trucking, line stradling,
heavy traffic, street cars, buses, stages, tankers, needed line posts, truck transportation on Ridge Route, auto and truck
wrecks, Waterman Canyon switchbacks, general road traffic conditions, etc.
Folder Box 6-F3778:1366; box 10-F3778:1370; box 11-F3778:1371
Trees, Districts I-X. 1926-32.
Scope and Content Note
Prints in box 6, negatives in boxes 10 & 11 - to be removed, too close for safety, obstructing view, diseased, tree trimming,
improper trimming, tree surgery, roadside trees include: English walnut, eucalyptus, cypress, cedars, black locusts, elm,
oak, sycamore, acacia, oleander; requests for tree removal, care of trees, bad
effects of trimming, tree removal, borer affected trees, ghost trees, Hangman's Tree - Dist. X, etc.
Folder Box 6-F3778:1366; box 10-F3778:1370; box 11-F3778:1371
Truckee River Experimental Section, numerical arrangement. 1930.
Scope and Content Note
Prints in box 6, negatives in boxes 10 & 11 - road bitumuls, asphalt road oil, cutback with naptha, surfacing, patching, failure,
equipment at work, etc.
Folder Box 6-F3778:1366; box 10-F3778:1370
Unclassified Roads. 1928-29.
Scope and Content Note
Prints in box 6, negatives in box 10 - Includes: view of Fresh Camp, road construction - Mon., prison road camp - Mon., Death
Valley, borax wagons, Furnace Creek Hotel, views from Conway Grade - Mno., Ortega Hill - S.B., Donner Lake, view of Silver
Creek Valley - Alp., narrow bridge - Inglewood, etc.
Folder Box 6-F3778:1366; box 10-F3778:1370
Miscellaneous, Districts I-VI, VIII-X. 1926-33.
Scope and Content Note
Prints in box 6, negatives in box 10 - includes: auto wrecks, convict camp at Del Norte, county roads, Gidding's rock plant,
Lake Helen, Truckee Tavern fire, Mr. Glendenning's residence, Marin causeway, Mt. Diablo Park road, Soldiers' Monument - Contra
Costa Co., loading pit, fire break, forest fire, asphalt plant, county bridge, oil storage tanks, Mt. Whitney and Sievas,
view across Death Valley, Furnace Creek, Red Rock Canyon, Kennedy Mine fire at Jackson, Beerman and White Quarry near Avery's,
dam at Caples Lake, general road views and road work, etc.
City and County Cooperative Projects
Folder F3778:1372
34. MANUAL OF INSTRUCTIONS. 1938.
Physical Description:
1 Vol.
Scope and Content Note
Instructions for use by headquarters and district personnel in dealing with means of providing financial assistance and guidance
to joint highway districts and urban street improvement projects.
Folder F3778:1373-1393
35. JOINT HIGHWAY DISTRICT FILE. 1919-1956.
Physical Description:
21ff.
Scope and Content Note
Organizational records and general correspondence placed first, and records relating to specific joint highway districts placed
thereafter in ascending order by district number. Arranged chronologically thereunder.
Under the provisions of the Joint Highway District Act of 1917 (
Stats.) 1917, ch. 52, April 5, 1917), the State allowed the creation of joint highway districts by two or more counties for the purpose
of building local roads which crossed through more than one county jurisdiction. These districts had the right to issue bonds,
accept gifts, use eminent domain, acquire property, employ labor, sue and be sued and adopt a seal. A certain
percentage of the cost of construction was provided by the State with the remainder being provided by the counties. There
were minor revisions of the Act in 1931 (
Stats. 1931, ch. 1025, June 17, 1931), and in 1943. (
Stats. 1943, ch. 284, April 29, 1943).
Descriptions of the organization, purpose, and accomplishments of the joint highway districts; memoranda; incoming and outgoing
correspondence with officials of the joint highway districts; photocopies of founding and dissolving documents; copies of
agreements; surveys and progress reports; cost estimates; and project maps--including a map showing the location of all 27
joint highway districts within the state.
No material exists dealing with Joint Highway District #24.
Federal Aid Secondary (FAS) Roads, Engineer
Scope and Content Note
On June 1, 1945, the Office of Engineer of Federal Secondary Roads was created to administer the allocation of matching funds
under the Federal Aid Highway Act of 1944. This Act provided funds for the construction of secondary roads to be coordinated
with the primary Federal Aid Highway System. A portion of the matching funds were made available to the State and the rest
was distributed to counties.
The Federal Secondary Roads Engineer aids in the planning and review of programs to be proposed to the Federal government
by county governments, makes recommendations to the Director of the Department of Public Works, lends engineering assistance
to counties, and coordinates construction.
In addition, in 1956, the Engineer was made responsible for the review of grant applications and for the supervision of repair
programs under the Flood Relief Law of 1956 (
Stats. 1956, ch. 9), augmented by (
Stats. 1957, ch. 2332), which provides funds to repair road damage caused by floods.
Folder F3778:1394-1412
36. GENERAL CORRESPONDENCE. 1945-1955.
Physical Description:
19ff.
Scope and Content Note
Organized alphabetically by subject and chronologically thereunder.
Copies of reports sent to the Director of Public Works on the status of FAS projects; copies of project statements sent to
Federal Agencies; copies of memoranda between FAS Engineer and other Division staff members discussing the progress and funding
of building and flood relief programs; copies of correspondence with county officials regarding joint Federal, State and county
funding of secondary road projects; summary tables of funds received by counties; reconnaissance reports of areas of possible
future construction; and a copy of the procedures to be used in an inventory of rural roads (see series entry 39, RURAL ROAD
INVENTORIES, 1949-1955).
Subjects dealt with include: the relocation of roads caused by dam construction; the railroad grade crossing construction
program; the defining of urban areas (which did not qualify for FAS funds); the rationing of steel, copper and aluminum under
the Nation Production Authority (1951-52, filed under priorities); flood relief for secondary roads; and legislation affecting
FAS building programs.
Folder F3778:1413-1470
37. PROJECT FILE. 1958-1965.
Physical Description:
3cf.
Scope and Content Note
Organized by district, county, and contract number and thereunder arranged chronologically.
Contains copies of contracts; specifications; cost estimates; copies of memoranda between Division of Highways personnel regarding
project construction and financing; resolutions by county supervisors; property condemnations; and field review, preliminary,
material, and project reports dealing with planning, materials, and actual construction.
Folder F3778:1471-1479
F3778:1480-1482 in Photo Box #2
38. RECORDS OF THE FLOOD RELIEF ACT PROGRAM. 1956.
Physical Description:
12ff.
Scope and Content Note
Organized into the following categories in the following order and chronologically thereunder: Application Files, General
Correspondence, Highway District I and II Estimates, and photographs of the City of Santa Clara.
Under the Federal Relief Law of 1956 (
Stats. 1956, ch. 9, Ex. Sess.), and the Federal Civil Defense Law (Public Law 875), emergency federal aid funds were made available
to pay for 50% of the cost of restoration measures necessitated by heavy, prolonged rain. The Federal Secondary Roads Department
of the Division of Highways carried out investigations at the county level, and the Highway Engineer made recommendations
to the Director of Public Works. Series comprises records collected by the Federal Secondary Roads Department.
Application Files
Scope and Content Note
Copies of applications by counties, reports by the Highway Engineer and district engineers on road damages, descriptions of
work to be done, cost estimates, maps of flood damage areas, and photographs showing flood damage to roads. 6ff.
General Correspondence
Scope and Content Note
Copies of agendas and summaries of Public Works Board Meetings called to discuss applications for relief money; memoranda
between Federal Secondary Roads Department Staff members dealing with the overall effectiveness of the program and efforts
being made at the county level to repair damage with money provided by the Act; and procedural instructions on how to apply
for relief. 1ff.
District I and II Estimates
Scope and Content Note
Estimates of the cost of repairs necessary within the districts, maps of secondary road systems showing areas receiving aid,
and photographs of road damage.
City of Santa Clara Photographs
Scope and Content Note
A collection of photographs prepared by the Engineering Department of the City of Santa Clara showing flood damage to roads
in that city. 3ff.
Folder F3778:1483-1510
39. RURAL ROAD INVENTORIES. 1949-1955.
Physical Description:
2½cf.
Scope and Content Note
Organized alphabetically by county.
Inventories of all county roads within each county listing the milage, physical aspects such as surface type, condition and
width, improvements made on each road, and the number of buildings and other structures near the road. Includes numerous charts
and diagrams.
Inventories prepared as part of a state-wide highway planning survey to determine the needs for new Federal secondary road
construction.
Folder F3778:1511-1521
40. PLANNING PROGRAM FILE. 1968-1970.
Physical Description:
11ff.
Scope and Content Note
Organized into the following categories in the following order: headquarters memoranda; district memoranda; and legislative
files.
Headquarters Memoranda
Scope and Content Note
(arranged chronologically) - memoranda sent between members of the Management Analysis Department discussing means of funding
proposed road building programs and probable cutbacks in projected plans; spending estimates; and project maps.
District Memoranda
Scope and Content Note
(arranged chronologically by year and thereunder by district) - proposals for future construction prepared by districts; cost
estimates; and reviews of proposed road programs by the Management Analysis Department staff.
Legislative Files
Scope and Content Note
(organized chronologically by year and thereafter Assembly bills placed first, and thereunder Senate bills) - summaries and
analyses of bills affecting projected building programs, and related correspondence. Route maps included.
Folder F3778:1522-1523
41. INDEX OF AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHS. 1927-1957, 1959-1960.
Physical Description:
1 Vol. and 1ff.
Scope and Content Note
Volume indexing all aerial photographs taken by the Division of Highways between 1927 and 1957. Contains charts which include
descriptions of surveys, dates made, and in what scale; and maps (1" = 10 miles) showing the exact location of the surveys.
Folder F3778:1524-1538
42. MATERIAL PROCUREMENT FILE. 1953-1957.
Physical Description:
15ff.
Scope and Content Note
Organized alphabetically by subject, and chronologically thereunder.
Small sampling of files relating to the purchase of materials for the construction and maintenance of highways, including
product specifications, purchase orders, copies of contracts, procedural circulars, work orders, cost estimates, and inspection
reports on products delivered.
Subjects dealt with include: aerial photography, asphalt, guard rails, lumber, paint, steel, petroleum products, and landscaping.
Of special interest is a 1956 report on records management techniques to be instituted by the Division of Highways.
Fiscal Management - Accounting
Folder F3778:1539-1541
43. MANUALS AND CHECK REGISTER. 1928-1934, 1938, 1941.
Physical Description:
3 Vols.
Scope and Content Note
Arranged chronologically.
Accounting Manual of Instructions (1938)
Scope and Content Note
Describing accounting procedures to be used by the accounting office, by shops and stores, and by prison road camps. Includes
numerous charts.
Procedures for Field Offices (1941)
Scope and Content Note
Accounting procedures to be used by district engineers in making out financial reports.
Check Register (1928-1934)
Scope and Content Note
Listing check number, to whom the check was given, and the total amount of each check. F3778:1541, location: 3A-1, Bin 56.
Folder F3778:1542-1546
44. COUNTY ANNUAL ROAD FUND REPORTS. 1923, 1930, 1937, 1949.
Physical Description:
5 Vols.
Scope and Content Note
Manual of instructions placed first, and annual reports placed thereafter - arranged chronologically by year and alphabetically
by county thereunder.
Under the provisions of section 34 of the Vehicle Act, as amended by
Stats. 1919, ch. 147 and
Stats. 1923, ch. 267, the boards of supervisors of each county in the state were required to make an annual report showing their
transactions with the County Road Fund derived from the State Motor Vehicle Fund and the Motor Vehicle Fuel Fund.
Manual of Instructions (1949)
Physical Description:
1 Vol.
Scope and Content Note
Provided by the Division of Highways to local governments. Contains instructions and information for the benefit of city officials
concerning the expenditure of the gas tax allocation to cities.
Annual Reports (1923, 1930, 1937)
Physical Description:
4 Vols.
Scope and Content Note
Contain a general statement of funds expended by each county and a detailed breakdown of funds used on individual building
projects - listing the name of the project, the nature of the project, the contractor, the engineer, the cost of materials,
and the amount paid to laborers.
Personnel and Public Information
Folder F3778:1547-1566a
45. RECORDS OF THE SAFETY SECTION. 1941-1947, 1950, 1954, 1955-57.
Physical Description:
20ff.
Scope and Content Note
Organized into the following categories in the following order: safety committee minutes, tabulations of employee accidents,
reports, of automobile accidents; monthly reports of accidents; and circulars. Arranged chronologically thereunder unless
otherwise mentioned below.
The Safety Section was established in 1950, to reduce employee injuries. It is responsible for preparing, organizing and advising
on a statewide accident program.
Safety supervisors are assigned to each district, and to the Bridge, Materials and Research, Service and Supply, and Toll
Bridge and Equipment
Departments. They investigate accidents and advise and instruct personnel on prevention practices.
In addition, each district has a safety committee comprising staff officials which meets monthly to review accidents and find
means of preventing their recurrence.
Safety Committee Minutes (1955-1957)
Physical Description:
17ff.
Scope and Content Note
(arranged by district, headquarters units placed thereafter in alphabetical order by name of unit). Minutes of monthly committee
meetings summarizing the discussion of accidents which had occurred over the last month.
Tabulations of Employee Accidents (1941, 1942)
Physical Description:
1ff.
Scope and Content Note
Charts listing the number of employees injured or killed, time lost due to accidents, the frequency of accidents per man hour,
and the number of accidents per district, per classification, and per wage rate.
Reports of Automobile Accidents (1950)
Physical Description:
1ff.
Scope and Content Note
Statistical reports by month of the number of miles traveled by all Division of Highway vehicles and the number of accidents
which had occurred involving those vehicles.
Monthly Reports (1954)
Physical Description:
1ff.
Scope and Content Note
Statistical lists of man hours worked by employees, accidents, time lost, and the frequency rate of accidents per work hour.
Accident Prevention Circulars (1942-1947)
Physical Description:
1ff.
Scope and Content Note
Statistical lists of injuries, bulletins providing suggestions on means of reducing industrial accidents, and circulars describing
means of reporting accidents.
Folder F3778:1567-1569
46. RECORDS OF THE STATE TRAFFIC ADVISORY COMMITTEE TO THE WAR DEPARTMENT. 1942-1943.
Physical Description:
3ff.
Scope and Content Note
News releases placed first, circulars and publications thereafter, arranged chronologically thereunder.
Copies of Committee news releases, circulars and publications sent to J.W. Vickery, Safety Engineer and member of the Committee.
Contains reports, pamphlets, articles, news releases, and copies of radio addresses dealing with the conservation by government
and individuals of transportation resources -- especially tires. Includes a map of state roads prepared by the Committee.
Folder F3778:1570-1588
47. CORRESPONDENCE OF ASSISTANT HIGHWAY ENGINEER, EARL WITHYCOMBE. 1950-1951.
Physical Description:
1cf.
Scope and Content Note
Organized into the following categories in the following order: district memoranda - arranged by district; general memoranda
- organized
alphabetically by name of staff member; and correspondence arranged alphabetically by sender (incoming) and addressee (outgoing).
District Memoranda
Scope and Content Note
Communications between Withycombe and district engineers regarding public complaints about work being done, changes in contracts,
and problems in obtaining construction materials.
General Memoranda
Scope and Content Note
Memoranda sent to and received from Operations Division personnel and the heads of other administrative divisions including
Rights of Way (Balfour), Maintenance (Hellesoe), Legal, and Materials and Research (Stanton). Memoranda largely deal with
complications over the ownership of property, construction techniques and materials, and contractors' complaints.
Correspondence (incoming and outgoing)
Scope and Content Note
Largely comprising letters received from vendors offering new construction materials for sale, contractors' requests for information
on policy, and complaints received from the public about damage done to property by road construction.
Folder F3778:1589-1639
48. CORRESPONDENCE OF L.R. GILLES, OPERATIONS OFFICER. 1967.
Physical Description:
1½cf.
Scope and Content Note
Organized alphabetically by subject and chronologically thereunder.
Memoranda between Gilles and department heads regarding ongoing programs; minutes of staff meetings; copies of speeches by
Gilles; quarterly reports of research projects of the Department of Research and Materials; copies of contractors' complaints;
incoming and outgoing correspondence between Gilles and officials of the Bureau of Public Roads (BPR) dealing with construction
problems caused by a reduction in Federal funding; circulars of the Construction Department; copies of outgoing correspondence
and scattered copies of the incoming correspondence of department heads with contractors and other staff members involving
construction delays, procedural changes, ongoing research, and changes in standard specifications; and notes, minutes, agendas,
and enclosures of highway construction and concrete contractor organizations (including the American Association of Highway
Officials and the American Concrete Paving Association).
Subjects dealt with include: highway beautification; the purchase and use of new types of equipment (under Equipment Department);
legislation affecting highway construction; prequalification of contractors; the five year plan of the Research and Materials
Department; the operation of honor camps (under Construction Department); and the effects of the Governor's Task Force on
Economy.
Folder F3778:1640
49. MANUAL OF INSTRUCTIONS. 1938.
Physical Description:
1 Vol.
Scope and Content Note
Statement of procedures to be used in the design and construction of roads, as well as the inspection and control of materials.
Includes numerous engineering tables.
Folder F3778:1641-1757
50. CENTRAL FILE. 1934-1954, 1957-1959, 1962-1968.
Physical Description:
3cf.
Scope and Content Note
Organized alphabetically by subject and chronologically thereunder.
Annual report of the Construction Department (1959); a history of the Construction Department; audits of contract letting
procedures; minutes, agendas, and reports of staff meetings (filed under Office Procedure), and meetings of construction and
resident engineers' meetings; reports on studies of pavements, test road sections, and wage scales; district construction
progress reports; articles and speeches written by Construction Department Personnel; memoranda between staff members discussing
construction techniques and changes in design standards; material cards tracing chronologically the history of testing and
use of various road building materials by the Department; hearing transcripts and minutes of meetings with contractors regarding
contractors' claims for additional compensation; and miscellaneous correspondence largely comprising public complaints and
communications with organizations including the American Association of State Highway Officials, the Asphalt Institute, and
the Institute of Transportation and Traffic Engineering.
Subjects include: accidents (filed under Safety); construction failures, materials and methods (including concrete and plastic
building materials), design standards, laboratory tests, standard specifications, and work orders.
For photographs removed from Materials and Methods - P.C.C. Pavement - 1959, and from Laboratory Reports - 1968, see Photo
Box #2, F3778: 1756-1757.
Folder F3778:1758
51. CONTRACT RECORD FILE. 1933-1949. 1 card file (4" × 6" cards). Filed separately.
Scope and Content Note
Cards organized by district and thereunder by contract number. Prison camp cards placed at the end of the district records
to which they relate.
Contains contract (or inspection) record cards listing for each contract the location, major work completed, milage worked
on, contractor, when contract was awarded and when completed, the name of the resident and assistant resident engineers who
inspected the work, their salaries, and their comments; and prison camp records listing prison camp number, location, work
done by prisoners, when begun and ended, and the name, grade, salary, and duties of all Division of Highways personnel associated
with the camp.
Folder F3778:1759-1761
52. BID REPORTS. 1955-1956.
Physical Description:
3ff.
Scope and Content Note
Arranged chronologically.
Copies of results of bidding on road construction projects, describing the location and nature of the project, and listing
the bids made by various contracts and the estimate made by a Division of Highways engineer.
Folder F3778:1762-1781
53. STATE PARK PROJECT PRELIMINARY REPORTS. 1956-1958.
Physical Description:
19ff.
Scope and Content Note
Organized by district, and thereafter alphabetically by name of park. Thereunder arranged chronologically.
Under the provisions of
Stats. 1956, ch. 1, funds were provided for the
construction of roads and parking areas in State parks.
Preliminary project reports containing a map of proposed construction, a program history, a description of work to be done,
and an estimate of cost; and memoranda between Construction Department and Division of Parks and Recreation Officials regarding
the design and funding of each plan.
Folder F3778:1782-1795
54. RECORDS OF THE CONVICT LABOR SYSTEM. 1915-1949.
Physical Description:
12ff. and 2 Vols.
Scope and Content Note
Organized into the categories listed below in the order listed below and chronologically thereunder. For photographs (F3778:1791-1795),
see Photo Box #3.
Early Historical Data (1915-1923, 1930-1937, 1942)
Physical Description:
1ff.
Scope and Content Note
Copies of rules governing convict labor, inspection reports, notes by a prison guard on his experiences, minutes of a meeting
between the CHC and Corrections officials to discuss problems growing out of the two agencies' joint control over the system,
papers delivered on the subject, and statistical data on the operation of labor camps.
Annual Reports (1931-1955)
Physical Description:
1ff.
Scope and Content Note
Reports providing both narrative and statistical information on work completed by convicts, cost of the program, the salaries
of employees, and the status of particular projects.
Convict Camps - General (1944)
Physical Description:
1ff.
Scope and Content Note
Memoranda between Construction Department personnel regarding salaries paid guards, a brief history of the program, inspection
reports, and prisoner assessments.
Gibson Memoranda (1916-1918)
Physical Description:
1ff.
Scope and Content Note
Inspection reports prepared by Lester H. Gibson, Assistant Highway Engineer.
Expenditures (1947-1949)
Physical Description:
1ff.
Scope and Content Note
Lists of expenditures made on the convict labor program from 1925 to 1947, and 1949.
Camp A (1930-1931)
Physical Description:
1ff.
Scope and Content Note
Memoranda regarding the establishment of Camp A at Rich, Tehama County. Includes a list of prisoners.
Fire Fighting (1929-1930)
Physical Description:
1ff.
Scope and Content Note
Memoranda and communications with the Department of Forestry regarding the use of prisoners for fire fighting operations.
Portable Houses (1930-1932)
Physical Description:
1ff.
Scope and Content Note
Memoranda and reports submitted by builders dealing with portable housing to be used in road camps.
Manual of Instructions Governing Prison Labor (1946)
Physical Description:
1 Vol.
Scope and Content Note
Manual prepared by the Highway Engineer containing a description of the organization and administration of the prison labor
program; rules for the establishment of camp sites (including plans for buildings), for maintenance, and for control; food
preparation regulations; prisoner pay scales; construction procedures; and accounting requirements.
Report of Time Studies at Camp No. 28 (1933)
Physical Description:
1 Vol.
Scope and Content Note
Narrative and statistical report on the reasons for time delays in convict labor work at Plumas-21-B. Includes numerous photographs
of convicts working along the road and of heavy equipment.
Prison Camp No. 38. (Undated)
Physical Description:
1ff.
Scope and Content Note
Photographs of the construction of the Mossa Canyon Camp in San Diego County, of the completed buildings, of prisoners at
work, and of completed road work.
Miscellaneous Photographs (1916, 1921-1925)
Physical Description:
43 items
Scope and Content Note
Scenes of prison camps, the interiors of buildings, convicts working, machinery, and of camp superintendents.
Folder F3778:1796-1808
55. MISCELLANEOUS PHOTOGRAPHS. 1916-1917, 1935, 1938-1941.
Physical Description:
13ff.
Scope and Content Note
Arranged into the following categories in the following order: Roadtrip; headwalls; debris control; and washouts.
Roadtrip (1916-17)
Scope and Content Note
Photographs of a trip through California by the Inyo Good Road Club.
Headwalls (1935)
Scope and Content Note
Photographs of the entrances of various headwalls.
Debris Control (1940)
Scope and Content Note
Photographs of numerous debris control techniques at the entrances of culverts.
Washouts (1938-1941)
Scope and Content Note
Arranged by district. Photographs of damage done to roads and bridges by flooding.
Folder F3778:1809-1922
56. CENTRAL FILE. 1929-1947, 1956-1965.
Physical Description:
3cf.
Scope and Content Note
Organized by Maintenance Department numeric filing system described below and chronologically thereunder.
Memoranda between Department staff members, reports on the effectiveness of various maintenance techniques, minutes of meetings,
copies of incoming and outgoing correspondence between Department personnel and the general public, maps, diagrams, and photographs.
Categories:
100.572 War Damage Claims (1942)
Physical Description:
1ff.
Scope and Content Note
Memoranda sent by Maintenance Engineer to Highway Engineer recommending roads damaged by military activity for repair under
the terms of the Federal Defense Act of 1942, which provided Federal funds. Also see series entry 62, WAR DAMAGE CLAIM FILE,
1942-43.
100.572 Civil Defense (1959-1961)
Physical Description:
3ff.
Scope and Content Note
Memoranda between staff members, notes on meetings, and Civil Defense circulars dealing with the role of highway personnel
in post atomic bomb recovery.
200.46 Mud Jack (1943)
Physical Description:
1ff.
Scope and Content Note
Memoranda, articles and photographs regarding mud jacking cracked roadways. Filed separately - photographs, F3778:1878-1881.
200.46 Construction Misc. (1955-1959)
Physical Description:
1ff.
Scope and Content Note
Memoranda dealing with unsatisfactory pavements, and with various new paving techniques. Filed separately - photographs, F3778:1877.
200.47 Tunnels (1959)
Physical Description:
1ff.
Scope and Content Note
Memoranda regarding tunnel construction and maintenance.
200.47 Ferries (1957-1960)
Physical Description:
1ff.
Scope and Content Note
Memoranda and reports involving the maintenance and cost of operation of ferries run by the State, including the Martinez-Benicia
Ferry.
200.47 Bridges (1938-1940, 1944, 1949-1959)
Physical Description:
7ff.
Scope and Content Note
Arranged first by district and chronologically thereunder. Memoranda and copies of correspondence with members of the Corps
of Engineers and the general public regarding the rules and regulations governing draw-bridges; financial statements; and
reports on drawbridge openings.
400 Speeches and Publications (1941-1942, 1950-1960)
Physical Description:
3ff.
Scope and Content Note
Articles written largely by Maintenance Department Personnel dealing with general road maintenance, snow removal, slides,
and weed control. Filed separately - photographs, F3778:1889-1890.
400 Freeways Misc. Correspondence (1945-1959)
Physical Description:
1ff.
Scope and Content Note
Memoranda between Maintenance Department Staff and with the Highway Engineer largely dealing with changes in Maintenance procedures.
400 Highway Superintendent Meetings (1930, 1958-1959)
Physical Description:
2ff.
Scope and Content Note
Minutes, and copies of addresses of meetings of district maintenance engineers and superintendents to exchange ideas on maintenance
problems.
400 Olympic Games (1955-1960)
Scope and Content Note
Correspondence with the Olympic Committee regarding agreements for snow removal by the Maintenance Department from roads leading
into Squaw Valley.
400 Road Takeover (1957)
Physical Description:
1 ff.
Scope and Content Note
Memoranda between staff members and correspondence with county boards of supervisors regarding the State takeover of maintenance
of certain county roads. Includes maps.
400 Territories/Changes (1956-1960)
Physical Description:
1ff.
Scope and Content Note
Memoranda dealing with changes in the boundaries of maintenance districts.
400.20E Permit to Violate Right of Way (1936-1945)
Physical Description:
3ff.
Scope and Content Note
Memoranda, correspondence, reports, permits, bonds, and photographs relating to various applications to encroach on highway
right of ways. Filed separately - photographs, F3778: 1886-1888.
400.20T Request to Move Aircraft (1946)
Physical Description:
1ff.
Scope and Content Note
Memoranda and correspondence with the Douglas and Hughes aircraft companies involving requests to move experimental aircraft
over state highways - including maps, diagrams, and plans of the proposed method of moving the aircraft.
400.221a Reflector Signs (1932)
Physical Description:
1ff.
Scope and Content Note
Photographic essay on the proposed locations of reflectorized signs along the California highways. Filed separately - photographs,
F3778:1891.
400.221b Neon Sign Protection (1929)
Physical Description:
1ff.
Scope and Content Note
Report on proposed use of neon signs at railroad crossings. Photographs filed separately, F3778:1892.
400.22 Sign Agreements (1931, 1938-1947)
Physical Description:
1ff.
Scope and Content Note
Memoranda and correspondence with automobile clubs and Federal agencies dealing with cooperative arrangements with automobile
clubs for the erection and maintenance of road signs. Filed separately - photographs, F3778:1885.
400.222 Black Outs (1942-1946)
Physical Description:
1ff.
Scope and Content Note
Memoranda, correspondence with Civil Defense Officials, and circulars largely dealing with the installation of signs advising
motorists to use parking lights at night in certain areas.
400.223 Historical Landmarks (1931-1941, 1946-1947)
Physical Description:
3ff.
Scope and Content Note
Correspondence with Historical Landmarks Commission regarding the placement of historical landmarks along state roadways.
400.23 Erosion Control (1944)
Physical Description:
1ff.
Scope and Content Note
Memoranda and photographs dealing with various erosion control methods and their effectiveness. Filed separately - photographs,
F3778:1883-1884.
400.23 Beautification of Roads (1932-1942)
Physical Description:
6ff.
Scope and Content Note
Arranged alphabetically by topic or name of staff member. Memoranda, field inspection reports, and survey reports regarding
road beautification efforts including the planting and maintenance of trees, weed control, building drinking fountains, and
the beautification of the approaches to the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge. Filed separately - photographs, F3778:1882.
400.24 Snow Removal (1931, 1941-1944)
Physical Description:
1ff.
Scope and Content Note
Speeches and articles; memoranda dealing with effects of World War II on snow removal operations and lists of roads closed
by snow.
400.242 Slides (1936-1942, 1947)
Physical Description:
1ff.
Scope and Content Note
Memoranda, work orders, graphs and photographs regarding maintenance repairs to roads after slides. Filed separately - photographs,
F3778:1894-1905.
400.243 Drainage (1938)
Physical Description:
1ff.
Scope and Content Note
Memoranda largely dealing with district engineer and incoming and outgoing correspondence with the general public involving
drainage along state roads. Filed separately - photographs, F3778:1893.
400.244 Earthquakes, Floods, Fires (1937-1939, 1943, 1963-1965)
Physical Description:
9ff.
Scope and Content Note
Storm reports, memoranda, correspondence with the public, and communications with the Corps of Engineers dealing with recovery
from the floods of 1937-38. Filed separately - photographic essays of flood damage done in District VII and District VIII
in 1943, and Districts I and II in 1964-65, F3778:1907-1920.
400.701 Field Correspondence (1936-1937)
Physical Description:
5ff.
Scope and Content Note
Reports from field inspectors on surveys of the location and condition of rural roads.
400.74 Highway Lighting (1938)
Physical Description:
1ff.
Scope and Content Note
Memoranda regarding experimental highway lighting and the lighting of the Waldo Tunnel on the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge.
500.45 Guard Rails and Posts (1932)
Physical Description:
1ff.
Scope and Content Note
Memoranda dealing with the effectiveness and cost of various types of guard rails.
900 Misc. (1924-1930)
Physical Description:
3ff.
Scope and Content Note
Department scrapbook containing articles from newspapers and journals regarding construction techniques; a progress report
on experimental oiling; and filed separately - a photographic essay on armor coating of roads, F3778:1906, 1921-1922.
900.43 Foreign States and Countries (1931)
Physical Description:
1ff.
Scope and Content Note
Correspondence with the highway departments of other states and other countries dealing with road surfacing and snow removal.
Folder F3778:1923-1942
57. CORRESPONDENCE OF T.H. DENNIS, MAINTENANCE ENGINEER. 1927-1931.
Physical Description:
21ff.
Scope and Content Note
Organized alphabetically by subject or name of staff member and chronologically thereunder.
Memoranda between Dennis, the Highway Engineer, maintenance engineers, and district engineers regarding the effectiveness
of maintenance techniques and equipment; incoming and outgoing correspondence with the general public dealing with public
suggestions for means of improving road safety; advertisements from vendors selling maintenance equipment and safety devices;
maps; plans; and photographs.
Subjects dealt with include the erection of signs by the Automobile Club of Southern California; the beautification of highways;
the California Committee on Public Safety, Cubcommittee on Accident Forms; the prevention of fires along roadways; painting
highway lanes; maintenance techniques including mud jacking and oiling; equipment (graders); the installation of warning signals
at railroad crossings; and slides. Filed separately - photographs, F3778:1944-1953.
Folder F3778:1943
58. REPORTS TO THE DIRECTOR OF PUBLIC WORKS. March 20, 1930 to July 21, 1933.
Physical Description:
1 Vol.
Scope and Content Note
Arranged within the volume chronologically.
Copies of monthly reports prepared by Highway Engineer for submission to the Director of Public Works. Reports describe the
total amount of work orders let within the month for construction and maintenance, and the milage of roads to be constructed
under those orders. Also lists contracts awarded within the month.
Folder F3778:1954-1968
59. OUTDOOR ADVERTISING CORRESPONDENCE. 1934-1945, 1950.
Physical Description:
11ff.
Scope and Content Note
Arranged chronologically.
In 1933, the legislature passed the Outdoor Advertising Act (
Stats. 1933, ch. 341), which regulated advertising signs near state highways and established a fee for advertising permits. The Outdoor
Advertising Department of the Maintenance Department was made responsible for the enforcement of the law and for the collection
of permit fees.
Contains: memoranda between maintenance staff members discussing difficulties in enforcing the laws; reports from field inspectors;
letters received from and copies of letters sent to sign owners regarding the payment of fees and violations of state regulations;
applications for permits; warnings sent to violators; and photographs of sign in violation of the law.
Filed separately - photographs, F3778:1965-1968.
Note: 1950 correspondence composed of a sampling (A, F) of applications for permits arranged in alphabetical order.
Folder F3778:1969-2039
60. MAINTENANCE FIELD INSPECTORS' REPORTS. 1925-1950.
Physical Description:
3½cf.
Scope and Content Note
Organized alphabetically by name of inspector and chronologically thereunder.
Reports and memoranda submitted by field inspectors to the Maintenance Engineer describing local road maintenance efforts;
emergency work to clear slides or repair washouts; the durability of various road building materials; the effectiveness of
construction equipment; road beautification and landscaping techniques; weed control; traffic counts; investigations of the
quality of gravel pits; and examinations of the need for additional traffic signals, warning devices, and road signs at particular
intersections. Also includes memoranda between the Maintenance Engineer and the Highway Engineer regarding maintenance procedures,
public complaints about road maintenance, and proposed legislation affecting Maintenance Department operations (filed under
T.H. Dennis).
Series provides extremely detailed information on road construction and repair techniques, and early efforts by the state
at highway beautification.
Filed separately - photographs which accompanied reports, showing maintenance work, road failures, and beautification efforts,
F3778:2033-2039.
Reports of the following inspectors are included:
N.R. Bengert (1934-1948)
Scope and Content Note
General road inspection.
H.J. Biglow (1934-1937)
Scope and Content Note
General road inspection.
Bosworth (1945-1949)
Scope and Content Note
Landscaping and weed control.
T.H. Bowers (1930-1937)
Scope and Content Note
Landscaping.
F.M. Carter (1935-1939, 1949)
Scope and Content Note
Signs, warning devices, and traffic counts.
T.H. Dennis (1925-1936, 1939)
Scope and Content Note
Maintenance Engineer.
L.P. Fite (1937-1949)
Scope and Content Note
General road inspection.
R.K. Forrest (1926-1928)
Scope and Content Note
General road inspection.
G.F. Hellesoe (1933-1935)
Scope and Content Note
General road inspection.
B.J. Millard (1928-1929)
Scope and Content Note
General road inspection.
O'Brien (1940-1946)
Scope and Content Note
Signs, warning devices, outdoor advertising.
F.E. Quail (1927-1931)
Scope and Content Note
General road inspection.
T.H. Smith (1929-1931)
Scope and Content Note
Signs and warning signals.
Standley (1930-1931)
Scope and Content Note
General road inspection.
E.S. Whitaker (1934-1950)
Scope and Content Note
Beautification.
Whitlock (1939-1942)
Scope and Content Note
General road inspection.
C.F. Woodin (1931-1942)
Scope and Content Note
General road inspection.
Folder F3778:2040-2043
61. RECOMMENDATIONS FOR RECONSTRUCTION. 1936, 1940, 1943.
Physical Description:
4ff.
Scope and Content Note
Organized chronologically by fiscal year and thereafter by district, by route, and by section.
Recommendations for the reconstruction of roads in poor condition. Includes a form listing the condition of the road, drainage,
maintenance cost, and traffic counts; and photographs of the road showing weaknesses. Entire series filed separately.
Folder F3778:2044).
62. WAR DAMAGE CLAIM FILE. 1942-1943.
Physical Description:
1ff.
Scope and Content Note
Arranged chronologically.
Under the provisions of section 10 of the Federal Defense Act of 1941, state and county governments were compensated for damages
done to roads by military hauling of equipment and war supplies. County governments submitted notices to file claims to the
Division of Highways.
Letters received from and sent to the Public Road Administrator by the Highway Engineer regarding state claims; maintenance
reports on damage done to roads; notices of intent to file claims by county officials; and scattered maps.
Also see series entry 56, CENTRAL FILE, 1929-65, code 100.572, War Damage Claims.
Folder F3778:2045-2050
63. MISCELLANEOUS MAINTENANCE REPORTS. 1927-1928, 1943.
Physical Description:
6ff.
Scope and Content Note
Arranged chronologically.
Reports prepared by the Department on road maintenance techniques and future maintenance requirements.
Roadway Data (1927-1928)
Physical Description:
4ff.
Scope and Content Note
Circulars, charts, and graphs - providing data on the dates of original construction and improvements of roads, the milage
of roads within the state, ongoing and day labor contracts, and showing typical cross sections of roadways within the state.
Maintenance Requirements (1928)
Physical Description:
1ff.
Scope and Content Note
Charts and maps showing roads needing repair in the 81st and 82nd fiscal year and projecting estimated costs.
Post War Surfacing Projects (1943)
Physical Description:
1ff.
Scope and Content Note
Charts and maps projecting estimates of the cost of post war resurfacing of damaged roads.
Folder F3778:2051-2057
64. MISCELLANEOUS PHOTOGRAPHIC REPORTS. 1928, 1935-1936, 1942, 1946.
Scope and Content Note
Arranged chronologically.
Incorporated Cities on U.S. Routes 101 & 199 (1928)
Physical Description:
1ff.
Scope and Content Note
Contains maps, charts and photographs of alternate routes for the two highways through incorporated towns. Photographs show
early automobiles and street scenes of towns including Salinas, San Luis Obispo, Santa Barbara, Ventura, Los Angeles, Santa
Ana, and La Jolla.
Maintenance Yard Inventory (1930)
Physical Description:
1ff.
Scope and Content Note
Chart listing size and original cost of yards, plans of the location of buildings, and photographs of facilities.
Road Maintenance Photographs (1935-1936)
Physical Description:
2ff.
Scope and Content Note
Arranged by county in alphabetical order (sample only, Hum-Imp, Nap-S.D.) - photographs showing before and after scenes of
maintenance work completed by the Maintenance Department.
Surface Failure Photographs (1942)
Physical Description:
1ff.
Scope and Content Note
Arranged by district, county, route, and section. Photographs showing typical areas of roadway failure.
Franchise Report, City of Los Angeles (Jan., 1946)
Physical Description:
1ff.
Scope and Content Note
Charts listing franchise rights of street railways and utilities in Los Angeles and photographs corresponding to charts. Several
photographs show Pacific Electric Railway streetcars and busses.
Slough Accumulation (undated)
Physical Description:
1ff.
Scope and Content Note
Photographic essay on means of most economically cleaning out gutters by the side of the roads.
Folder F3778:2058-2102
65. LABORATORY FILE. 1945-1958.
Physical Description:
1½cf.
Scope and Content Note
Organized into the following categories in the following order: intra-departmental memoranda - arranged alphabetically by
name of laboratory; subject files - organized alphabetically by subject; and outside contracts - arranged by geographic area.
Intra-Departmental Memoranda
Scope and Content Note
Communications between the central office and Berkeley and Los Angeles regional laboratories regarding problems confronted
in testing programs, and field inspections of structural steel and weldings.
Subject Files
Scope and Content Note
Files dealing with individual materials being tested for use by the Division of Highways. Files contain memoranda discussing
the means to be used in testing, preliminary results, and suggested specifications to be required; incoming and outgoing correspondence
with manufacturers regarding their production standards and the characteristics of their products; communications with highway
officials in other states discussing the results of similar testing programs; and charts, diagrams, and plans. Filed separately
- photographs, F3778:2103.
Subjects dealt with include: bearing pads, grader blades, corrosion, concrete curbs, pipes, plastic, steel, signs, and welding.
Outside Contracts
Scope and Content Note
Reports and related incoming and outgoing correspondence involving contracts made with other governmental agencies to inspect
and monitor steel and other building materials delivered to projects. Sample - State of Oregon, Guatemala, and the City of
San Francisco.
Folder F3778:2104-2138
66. RESEARCH REPORTS. 1922-1954.
Physical Description:
33ff.
Scope and Content Note
Organized alphabetically by subject and chronologically thereunder.
Final reports prepared by the Materials and Research Department into the desirability of materials used by the Division of
Highways, and the effects of road building on soils. Reports include descriptions of investigative techniques used, and frequently
contain maps and photographs.
Subjects dealt with include asphalt, bituminous surfaces, concrete, culverts, the compaction of soil, curb testing, drainage,
grading, guard rails, pavements, skid resistance, soils, subgrade failures, Willite Pavement, and an index and resume of research
projects completed between 1927 and 1937. Filed separately - photographs, F3778:2137-2138.
Folder F3778:2139 Location: Bin A3-49
67. HIGHWAY DATA SHEETS. 1948.
Physical Description:
1 Vol.
Scope and Content Note
Data sheets arranged by state highway number and by section number thereunder.
Data sheets on the interstate highway system in California prepared by the Materials and Research Department of the Division
of Highways in cooperation with the Federal Works Agency. Data sheets contain an alignment of the road at the top of the sheet,
and below a chart corresponding to the alignment listing the width of the right of way and shoulder, the number of lanes,
the number of traffic control devices, bridges, railroad crossings, frontage roads, curves over 3°, accidents, illuminating
lights, types of paving, and weights of vehicles traveling over the road.
A map of the interstate highway system in California is included at the front of the volume.
Folder F3778:2140-2141
68. ROAD TEST PHOTOGRAPHIC ESSAYS. 1930, 1940-41.
Physical Description:
2ff.
Scope and Content Note
Arranged chronologically.
Photographic reports prepared on the results of tests on various types of pavements.
Report on Truckee River Experimental Road (June 27, 1930)
Physical Description:
1ff.
Scope and Content Note
Brief text and numerous photographs dealing with a section of test pavement placed on Nev-Sie 38, A & B.
Brighton Test Track (1940-1941)
Physical Description:
1ff.
Scope and Content Note
Map, charts, and photographs of the construction and use of the Brighton Test Track and of the condition of various pavements
after a certain number of revolutions of the track.
Folder F3778:2142-2143
69. MANUALS OF INSTRUCTIONS. 1932, 1933, 1952, 1958.
Physical Description:
2ff.
Scope and Content Note
Arranged chronologically.
Three manuals describing the organization and operating procedures of the Equipment Department, including acceptable means
of repairing and maintaining various types of machinery.
Also includes a volume by Halbert P. Gillette entitled ROAD AND STREET CATALOG AND DATA BOOK (1932), containing a consolidation
of manufacturers' catalogs of highway, road, construction, plant, and maintenance equipment, and a data section providing
engineering information and recommendations for the design, construction, and maintenance of highways, roads, and streets.
Folder F3778:2144-2186
70. CENTRAL CORRESPONDENCE FILE. 1921-1974.
Physical Description:
1cf.
Scope and Content Note
Organized alphabetically by subject and chronologically thereunder.
Superintendent's instructions describing changes in operating procedures; reports on shop inspections; memoranda sent to and
received from other departments and repair shops dealing with the purchase, use, and repair of vehicles; circulars; rules
governing equipment rentals; surveys of property; automotive equipment inventories; communications with vendors regarding
the purchase of machinery; and incoming and outgoing correspondence with the general public regarding sales of surplus property.
Also included are eight 8" by 10" and ten 3" by 5" photographs of Equipment Department staff members, repair shops, and automotive
equipment, F3778:2186 - filed separately.
Folder F3778:2187-2192
71. EQUIPMENT INVENTORIES. 1932-1935, 1939, 1946.
Physical Description:
6 Vols.
Scope and Content Note
Arranged chronologically.
Itemized listings of all equipment and property owned by the Division of Highways. Filed separately - 3A-1, B56.
Folder F3778:2193
72. BRIDGE DEPARTMENT MANUAL. 1929.
Physical Description:
1 Vol.
Scope and Content Note
Contains procedures to be used by employees in office work, the investigation of bridges and bridge sites, design, and construction.
Folder F3778:2194-2201
73. GENERAL CORRESPONDENCE. 1946-1953.
Physical Description:
8ff.
Scope and Content Note
Arranged alphabetically by subject and chronologically thereunder.
Includes the following subjects: article on modern highway bridge construction containing numerous plans and sketches of California
highway bridges; Institute of Transportation and Traffic Engineering - agendas, copies of papers delivered at meetings, and
related correspondence; Public Roads Administration diaries - review of bridge construction projects; Toll bridges - memoranda
regarding the operation of toll bridges and the possible purchase of the Carquinez Bridge; incoming and outgoing correspondence
with officials of other states regarding bridge building techniques;
and the Richmond-San Rafael Bridge - memoranda dealing with the planning of the bridge, and correspondence from the general
public and resolutions encouraging its construction.
Folder F3778:2202
74. OUTGOING CORRESPONDENCE (Green Sheets). June 3, 6, 1955.
Physical Description:
1ff.
Scope and Content Note
Arranged chronologically.
Copies of staff weekly activity reports; memoranda between staff members reporting on meetings to discuss bridge design and
conference with railroad officials regarding overpasses, and discussing design features of bridges under construction; and
letters sent to railroad officials providing information requested on the grade separation program.
Folder F3778:2203-2220
75. BRIDGE WORK REPORT FILE. 1929-1952.
Physical Description:
18ff.
Scope and Content Note
Organized alphabetically by name of bridge, and thereunder arranged by category in the order listed below.
Contains the following:
Statements of Working Days (Weekly)
Scope and Content Note
Charts listing days worked, weather conditions, and revisions to projected completion dates caused by bad weather.
Progress Diaries (Weekly)
Scope and Content Note
Charts listing number and types of workers, and work being done on a project, and the percentage of work completed.
Project Reports
Scope and Content Note
Narrative statements by the resident engineer on the progress of construction, estimated cost, and estimated remainder of
project to be completed.
Final Construction Report
Scope and Content Note
Narrative reports describing project, its specifications, work done, and observed violations of contract.
Filed separately - photographs removed from the Figueroa Street Viaduct Construction report, F3778:2220.
Folder F3778:2221-2222
76. SPECIAL REPORTS. 1931-1940, 1950.
Physical Description:
2ff.
Scope and Content Note
Arranged chronologically.
Summaries of Cost Data (1931-1940)
Scope and Content Note
Indexed compilation of quarterly reports on the cost of bridge construction listing the cost per square foot of each bridge
constructed in that quarter, and the quantity and unit price of materials used.
Bridge Record for Defense Requirements (1950)
Scope and Content Note
Chart prepared by the Department for the Bureau of Public Roads listing the name and location of each bridge in the State,
its construction type, and its estimated load capacity.
Folder F3778:2223
77. AUTOMOBILE REPORTS. 1925.
Physical Description:
1 Vol.
Scope and Content Note
Organized by license number and chronologically thereunder.
Reports list hours operated, speedometer readings, miles traveled, driver, a description of trips, expenditures for repairs,
gasoline and oil used.
Folder F3778:2224-2229
78. BRIDGE CONSTRUCTION FIELD CORRESPONDENCE. 1914, 1924-1926, 1929.
Physical Description:
5ff. 1 Vol.
Scope and Content Note
Arranged by district, county, route, and section and chronologically thereunder.
Letters received and copies of letters sent by the Chief Bridge Engineer. Composed largely of communications with resident
bridge engineers including progress reports, work orders, instructions, cost estimates, and pile driving records (on Yolo
Causeway, III-Yol-6-B), and blueprints. Also contains correspondence with contractors, and accident reports. Filed separately
- photograph of warning sign relating to X-Sac-4-B, F3778:2229.
Folder F3778:3086-4324
78A. BRIDGE CONSTRUCTION PROJECT FILES. 1918-74.
Physical Description:
1239 ff.
Scope and Content Note
Arranged by Highway District number, alphabetically by county, then chronologically thereunder.
Files may contain: copies of contracts and agreements; final reports describing the work completed and quantities and costs
of supplies and equipment used; progress reports and on-site inspection reports by the local district engineer; preliminary
reports; laboratory test results on materials used in construction; change orders; memoranda between the highway engineer/bridge
engineer and district engineers regarding routine matters and special problems; correspondence between the highway engineer/bridge
engineer and the Public Roads Administration and other Federal agencies; correspondence between headquarters and contractors
regarding construction timetables, extensions, change orders, and lack of quality workmanship; transcripts of Bridge Department
or Board of Control hearings regarding contractual disputes; audits; legal documents from cases involving the Bridge Department
and contractors; grade crossing applications to the California Railroad Commission (Public Utilities Commission); advertisements
for early road building equipment; engineering and design drawings (blueprints and original tracings); and, photographs and
films.
Note on sampling: initially, project files representing the years 1930-46, -48, -50, -55, -60, -65, -71, and -75 were selected
and accessioned. During the processing phase the records were further sampled to preserve only significant or representative
project files. Factors in determining significance included the relative importance of the structure (e.g., size, design,
construction techniques) and the volume and completeness of the records accumulated. There was an emphasis on new construction
project files rather than maintenance or repair project files, and an attempt was made to select representative project files
from all counties in each highway district if available.
The following project files are included:
Folder 3103
1964-65
101-14-504-074714
Folder 3106-3107
1932-35
1A614TC5 and 211TC31
Folder 3111
1936-37
1G81TC5 and 61TC10
Folder 3119
1937-38
Whitlemore State Park-014WWC6
Folder 3127
1951-56
1,20I,A56-14TC3-F
Folder 3130
1953-55
FAS501-55-14DC6-P
Folder 3135
1959-61
FAS1204-59-14DDC50-P
Folder 3136
1958-60
FAS1204-59-14BDC17-F
Folder 3143
1957-66
299-14-504-040724
Folder 3157
1959-60
FAS1043-60-14DDC55-P
Folder 3174
1965-66
306CR14-102234 Section 131G
Folder 3202-3203
1933-34
21A614TC12 and 411TC24
Folder 3210-3211
1932-37
21A614TC13 and 411TC25
Folder 3227
1957-61
3D,A59-2TC18-FIPD
Folder 3256-3257
1934-39
7B814PGTC6 and 814TC3
Folder 3264
1968-70
75.1/79.6-02-044934
Folder 3299
1937-40
7C83TC12 and 63TC13
Folder 3303
1947-49
FAS1119-112214DC33
Folder 3306
1948-51
FAS11171-14DC54-P
Folder 3312-3313
1956-59
37,38D,A59-3TC3-FI
Folder 3317
1925-32
17B211EC17 and 499
Folder 3335
1956-61
37D,E60-3TC2-FIPD
Folder 3368
1938-39
Fdr-P.W.A. 1849-F
Folder 3375
1951-55
3,17A,Rsv,A,B54-14TL24-F
Folder 3376
1951-54
98,3B,B53-3TC12-F
III
Sacramento/San Joaquin
Folder 3380-3383
1949-56
98Sac,B52-14TL20-F
Folder 3402
1950-51
25,37,17A,A,C51-14KC1
Folder 3408
1928-35
Feeder Hwy614WC9-411YC1
Folder 3413-3429
1931-37
6C,Sac614TC10 and 614TMC1
Physical Description: 17f
Folder 3442
1953-54
50B,C54-14TC25-FP
Folder 3459-3462
1955-62
3B,Mvl59-14TC14-F
Folder 3483
1949-54
69Oak. Emv.52-4TC37-F
Folder 3484-3487
1949-56
5,69Oak54-14TC40-F
Folder 3488
1950-53
69D,Hay., C52-4TC19
Folder 3490
1951-55
69,206Emv. Berk.,Oak.54-4TC41-F
Folder 3493-3495
1955-60
69,7Alb,Rch59-4TC8-FIPD
Folder 3501-3502
1938-40
106C014GWC2 and 014WC14
Folder 3503-3504
1947-54
14,69Rch, SPb, C54-14TC28
Folder 3505-3506
1949-53
75Pit, F, Ant52-4TC27-F
Folder 3507-3509
1954-61
75,107A,WLC58-4TC17-FI
Folder 3510
1956-59
FAS 1255-58-4DDC19-P
Folder 3511
1958-60
FAS 800-60-1413DC81-F
Folder 3523
1931-34
8A614KC1 and 211EC19
Folder 3524
1934-38
52,1A,C014AC3 and 014KC2 and 014KC3 and 014CC1
Folder 3528-3531
1951-55
1C,D,Saus54-4TC23
Folder 3533
1960-65
1,129-64-4T13C32-F
Folder 3536
1949-50
FAS 1165-14DC68-P
Folder 3542
1938-40
56SF04WMC2 and 04WC4
Folder 3543
1938-40
56SF04WC8 and 04WMC3
Folder 3545
1938-40
56SF04WC9 and 04WMC4
Folder 3554
1953-56
68,2SF53-14TC15-F
Folder 3556-3557
1956-61
2,68SF58-14TC23-FPD
Folder 3570
1952-55
68SM, C, Bmt, S Car53-4TC42-F
Folder 3571-3572
1961-65
114,280-64-4T13C30-IP
IV
San Mateo/San Francisco
Folder 3573-3575
1961-66
280,1-64-4T13C43-I
Folder 3590-3596
1937-42
FdrPA014GFNC3 and 814PGFNC11
IV
Santa Clara, San Benito
Folder 3601-3602
1951-54
69,5A,E,C53-4TC23F
Folder 3606-3609
1953-60
68,5,69B,SJs,A60-4TC2-FI
Folder 3614-3616
1965-74
280,680,101-04-279514
Folder 3617
1935-38
116A814PWC2 and 814WC1
Folder 3629
1935-38
State Home-814YC1
Folder 3654
1930-37
56H614WC12 and 411CN9
Folder 3656-3659
1931-38
2D814-PGTC4 and 814TC2
Folder 3663
1933-34
56D,F614WC4 and 514WC1
Folder 3665
1933-34
56D514WC2 and 614WC8
Folder 3690
1931-32
2B411TC10 and 411EC1
Folder 3691
1934-36
22,119B,D,814WWC and 814KC2
Folder 3699
V
1928-32
56A532 and 211KC1
Folder 3700-3701
1928-41
2E214VC1-P and 214VLC2-S
Folder 3707
1934-38
58C814XXC1 and 814XC16
San Luis Obispo/Santa Barbara
Folder 3717
1957-66
101-64-5VC13C9-FP
Folder 3729
1932-35
80A614CX11 and 411XC6
Folder 3730
1934-42
2D05VC2 and 65VC13
Folder 3731-3732
1936-39
149B014XC5 and 814XC18
Santa Barbara/San Luis Obispo
Folder 3739
1952-55
56Gdlp,E,F55-14VC3-F
Folder 3741
1958-60
Co. Rd.-59-14B2C3
Folder 3754
1937-40
41M,N26WG3-06GWC1
Folder 3760
1953-55
820, 940, 568-54-14DC6-P
Folder 3761-3762
1953-57
n/a-Fresno Fact Finding Comm.
Folder 3765-3768
1959-64
4B,Fre62-6T13C3-F
Folder 3774-3777
1934-35
4Bkd.614VC15 and 614VMC1
Folder 3783-3786
1935-39
4E814PGVC6 and 814VC2
Folder 3792
1960-65
5-64-6V13C1-I and 06-033204
Folder 3793-3795
1960-65
204, 99-63-6V13C9-F and 06-032984
Folder 3796
1964-74
178, 155-06-041864
Folder 3798
1958-60
125E,A,B60-14TC11
Folder 3799-3800
1961-66
198-64-6T13C1-F and 06-015524
Folder 3808
1933-34
123B614WWC1 and 614KC3
Folder 3811-3813
1931-36
4F,D46VC2 and 46FC2
Folder 3818-3820
1957-66
19864-6VC13VC9-F and 06-014834
Folder 3825-3827
1960-64
9963-6T13C9-FP and 06-016754
Folder 3828-3832
1960-64
10Vis,C63-14V13C4-F
Folder 3905-3908
1935-40
168C014GXC5 and 014XC20
Folder 3912-3915
1935-55
Superceded Bridge Repts.
Folder 3936-3938
1938-40
163S.Mca.PWA/NC-1799-F
Folder 3940-3942
1939-41
205S.Pas.214XC5 and 214MC1
Folder 3969
1951-54
26Pom, Cla53-14VC5-F
Folder 3972-3973
1951-55
4, 23, 157, 158LA, F54-7VC11-F
Folder 3977-3978
1955-60
165LA, A59-7VC39-FPD
Folder 3979-3980
1955-60
2, 158LA59-VC18-FIP
Folder 3981
1955-60
158LA, B, ClC59-VC42-FI
Folder 3982-3983
1956-60
4, 26LA58-7VC41-FI
Folder 3984-3985
1956-60
173LA58-14VC13-FI
Folder 3988
1957-59
60LBch, F59-14VC5
Los Angeles/San Bernardino
Folder 3993-3994
1959-63
4, 158LA, LA61-7V13C63-J
Folder 4005-4007
1964-71
210, 248, 16407-033274
Folder 4008-4009
1964-71
605, 21007-043824
Folder 4016-4018
1965-72
10, 57, 71, 210Var.07-012414
Folder 4022-4025
1965-73
5, 14, 118, 405Var.07-068324
Folder 4030
1972-74
7, 10, 11, 605Var.07-309604
Folder 4047
1954-59
175Ana, Ful, B59-7VC34
Folder 4050
1972-73
57, 5, 405Var.07-322174
Folder 4068
1934-35
Camarillo State Hospital614YC1
Folder 4107
1941-44
19, 78C48AXC1, 48AXC2, 48AXC3
Folder 4118-4119
1957-61
43B, Riv59-8VC20-F
Folder 4136-4139
1931-34
9SBd411CS10 and 614VC2
Folder 4147
1952-54
58F,J,K,L,54-14VC10
Folder 4148
1957-60
26D,Ria59-8VC15-FI
Folder 4174-4176
1935-39
4D014GTC3 and 014TC8
Folder 4178
1935-40
11C014KC6 and 014CC4
Folder 4184-4187
1945-61
53C,RVs,C59-14TC3-F
Folder 4201
1937-38
75C014CC5 and 014KC7
Folder 4202-4203
1946-60
FAS 90759-14DDC44-P
Folder 4213-4215
1938-43
6A014GTC7 and 214TC12
Folder 4217
1939-40
99,100A214WWC1, 214CC3, 214KC6
Folder 4230-4232
1926-40
4A014GTC6 and 014TC16
Folder 4264
1935-39
26E814PGVC3 and 814VC1
Folder 4272
1956-60
26E,D59-11VC16-FI
Folder 4276
1931-36
2F514XC1 and 614XC12
Folder 4282
1936-39
2SD814PGVC7 and 814VC6
Folder 4285
1938-43
SD214YC1, 914GC1, 714GC2, 014GC1
Folder 4311
1957-60
12SD,A59-11VC14-FIP
Folder 4312
1959-60
FAS 73160-14DDC57-P
Folder F3778:2230-2231
79. CORRESPONDENCE COPY BOOKS OF RESIDENT ENGINEER ALBERT A. LEINHART. 1924-1925.
Physical Description:
2ff.
Scope and Content Note
Organized chronologically.
Four copy books containing copies of the outgoing correspondence of Albert A. Leinhart, resident engineer for the construction
of the Van Duzen Bridge (I-Hum-1-F), near Fortuna, California. Largely comprises reports and descriptions of construction
problems. Also contains scattered correspondence with contractors describing work to be accomplished.
Folder F3778:4325-4335
79A. CODED FILES. 1953-62.
Physical Description:
11 ff.
Scope and Content Note
Arranged by code number:
900.07 California Disaster Preparedness Program (1953-60)
Physical Description:
1ff.
Scope and Content Note
Contains Department's disaster plan and related correspondence.
900.43 Correspondence with Officials of other States (1961-62)
Physical Description:
1 ff.
900.44 Correspondence with Foreign Countries (1961-62)
Physical Description:
1 ff.
900.431 Highway Research Board (1959-61)
Physical Description:
1 ff.
Scope and Content Note
Correspondence regarding Department's involvement with this subgroup of the National Academy of Sciences-National Research
Council.
900.471 Golden Gate Bridge & Authority (1959-61)
Physical Description:
1ff.
900.472 Rapid Transit Commission, Bay Area (1957-61)
Physical Description:
1 ff.
Scope and Content Note
Correspondence re: Department's involvement with the development of rapid transit in the Bay Area.
900.673 Highway Magazine (1959-61)
Physical Description:
1 ff.
Scope and Content Note
Correspondence re: Department publication: California Highways and Public Works magazine.
900.674 Revision for Standard Specifications (1961-62)
Physical Description:
2 ff.
900.677 Speeches & Papers by Bridge Dept. Employees (1955-60)
Physical Description:
2 ff.
Scope and Content Note
Topic include bridge construction techniques, design and problems.
Folder F3778:4336-4372
79B. MAINTENANCE FILE. 1968
Physical Description:
37 ff.
Scope and Content Note
Arranged numerically by district number and chronologically thereunder.
File contains: Supplementary Bridge Reports - work done, condition of structure, recommendations for maintenance, blueprints;
Condensed Bridge Reports - changes noted and maintenance needs; memorandum - requests for maintenance funds, condition assessments,
and load limit revisions; Bridge Reports - general description, history, remarks; Railroad Grade Crossing Reports - changes
noted and maintenance needs; and, Supplementary Pump Reports - condition and maintenance needs of pumps located in underpasses.
Folder F3778:2232-2247
80. OUTGOING MEMORANDA. 1950-1951.
Physical Description:
16ff.
Scope and Content Note
Organized into the following categories in the following order: general memoranda - arranged alphabetically by name of staff
member, and district memoranda - arranged by district number and chronologically thereunder.
General Memoranda
Scope and Content Note
Copies of memoranda sent by Traffic Department personnel to J.W. Vickery, Assistant State Highway Engineer in Charge of the
Planning Department, and by Vickery and Planning Department staff to the State Highway Engineer and to the heads of other
administrative units including Maintenance (Hellesoe), Construction (Withycombe), and Bridges (Panhorst), regarding the advisability
of constructing traffic signs, installing grade crossing barriers, and lowering speed limits at various points along state
highways.
Also includes copies of outgoing correspondence to state legislators and local officials replying to requests for stop signs,
signals, and the lowering of speed limits (filed under State, County, Local), and memoranda sent by Planning Department personnel
to the State Highway Engineer offering opinions on the advisability of proposed legislation involving speed limits, and safety
signs and devices (filed under legislation).
District Memoranda
Scope and Content Note
Sent by Planning Department personnel to district engineers largely comprising approvals or disapprovals of changes in state
highway routes, reconstructions of routes, the establishment of speed limits, the funding of lighting on highways and bridges,
and the placement of traffic signs, signals and grade crossing guards.
Folder F3778:2248-2251
81. PROPOSED HIGHWAYS HEARING TRANSCRIPTS. 1956-1957.
Physical Description:
4ff.
Scope and Content Note
Arranged chronologically.
Transcripts of public hearings on the proposed construction of state highways in Placer, Nevada, San Bernardino, Riverside
and Imperial Counties containing testimony by local government officials, planning groups, and the general public. Includes
maps of proposed projects, and frequently exhibits, aerial photographs, and diagrams.
Folder F3778:2252-2254
82. TOLL FREE EXPRESSWAY QUESTIONNAIRES. 1951, 1952, 1955.
Physical Description:
2FF.
Scope and Content Note
Arranged chronologically.
Questionnaires prepared by district engineers listing the rural, urban and total milage of each multi-lane toll-free expressway
in their district. Forms include information on construction costs; Federal, State, and local funding; maintenance expenses;
and average daily usage.
State-wide summaries are included.
Folder F3778:2255-2276
83. PROJECT FILE. 1966.
Physical Description:
1½cf.
Scope and Content Note
Organized by district, county, and project number, and thereunder chronologically.
Contains for each proposed route feasibility studies; studies of rights of way, utilities, corridor protection, aesthetics,
cost, and the effect on the local community; copies of transcripts of CHC public hearings; memoranda between staff members;
cost estimates; incoming and outgoing correspondence with legislators, local government officials, and the general public
regarding the nature of the plan and proposed modifications; news-letters and press releases; maps and frequently aerial photographs.
Folder F3778:2277-2311
84. FEDERAL AID INTERSTATE FREEWAY ESTIMATES. 1956-1958.
Physical Description:
2cf.
Scope and Content Note
Organized into the following categories in the following order: instruction manual; general estimates; road section estimates.
Section estimates are further arranged by Federal freeway number and section (see list below for State Highway number counterpart
to Federal Freeway numbers).
Under the provisions of Section 108 (d) of the Federal Aid Highway Act of 1956, State highway agencies were required to make
detailed estimates of the cost of completing the Federal Interstate highway system in their state, which were used as the
basis for Federal funding of projects. Series represents estimates and supporting documents prepared on the cost of building
freeways in District VII, developed by the Advanced Planning Section for submission to the Federal Government.
Instruction Manual
Scope and Content Note
Prepared by the U.S. Department of Commerce. Provides background information on the 1956 Highway Act and describes the means
to be used in preparing estimates and the information to be included.
General Estimates
Scope and Content Note
Overall estimates of the cost of completing the
interstate system in District VII.
Section Estimates
Scope and Content Note
More detailed estimates of the cost of completing specific sections of the interstate system (sample 1 of 5).
Contains: cost estimate work sheets - including brief descriptions of project, location, and terrain; cost estimates of interchanges,
separations, and bridges; traffic estimates (current and projected for 1975); typical cross sections of roadway; and general
maps of the proposed route.
Folder F3778:2312-2356
85. GENERAL CORRESPONDENCE FILE. 1947-1965.
Physical Description:
2cf.
Scope and Content Note
Organized by departmental numeric filing code (described below), and chronologically within folders.
200 Reports (1948-1962)
Physical Description:
2ff.
Scope and Content Note
Recommendations by Design Department for acceptance or rejection of proposed airport sites on the basis of whether or not
they were too close to State highways. Frequently includes maps of proposed airport sites.
400 Traffic Control Devices (1954)
Physical Description:
1ff.
Scope and Content Note
Memoranda regarding advances in traffic safety devices and their effects on the number of accidents in the state.
600 Inter-Departmental (1951-1954)
Physical Description:
4ff.
Scope and Content Note
Annual reports; minutes, agendas, and enclosures of Departmental staff meeting; and articles and addresses prepared by staff
members on the subject of highway and interchange design.
800 Design Studies (1947-1954)
Physical Description:
2ff.
Scope and Content Note
(arranged alphabetically) - circulars, reports, and blueprints dealing with studies of the effectiveness of certain design
techniques including center line diversions, guard rails, fences, narrow median highways, interchanges, sight distances, and
truck passing lanes.
801 Emergency Communication (1954-1956)
Physical Description:
1ff.
Scope and Content Note
Memoranda, reports, incoming and outgoing correspondence with highway officials in other states and the general public, and
maps relating to the proposed installation of emergency telephones along state highways.
804.1 Aerial Surveys (1956-1961)
Physical Description:
1ff.
Scope and Content Note
Memoranda, reports, and speeches by Design Department staff personnel dealing with the effectiveness of aerial surveys in
designing roadways.
804.3 Scenic Highways (1955-1966)
Physical Description:
5ff.
Scope and Content Note
Memoranda, circulars, press releases, reports, releases of the California Roadside Council and incoming and outgoing correspondence
with legislators, highway officials of other states, and the general public relating to the designation of a state scenic
highway system.
900 Legislative Resolutions (1953-1954)
Physical Description:
1ff.
Scope and Content Note
Memoranda and reports of studies prepared in fulfillment of the requirements of legislative resolutions calling for investigation
of the advisability of widening U.S. Highway 101, problems with log hauling, and the establishment of additional rests and
parkssalong roadways.
999 Organizations (1947-1954)
Physical Description:
11ff.
Scope and Content Note
Agendas, circulars, bulletins, reports, copies of papers presented at meetings, and correspondence relating to meetings of
the Subcommittee on Planning and Design of the American Association of State Highway Officials, the Institute of Transportation
and Traffic Engineering, the President's Highway Safety Conference, and the
Western Association of State Highway Officials.
999.2 Military Access Roads (1951-1954)
Physical Description:
9ff.
Scope and Content Note
Preliminary reports - frequently including maps, materials, reports, and copies of contracts for access roads to be built
into military bases submitted to the Design Department for review.
999.5 Division of Parks and Beaches (1963-1965)
Physical Description:
6ff.
Scope and Content Note
Memoranda, reports, agreements, resolutions, and maps regarding agreements with the Division of Parks and Beaches for the
handling of archeological salvage from road construction sites, the construction of roads and bridges in State Parks, and
the construction of riding and biking trails.
Folder F3778:2357-2385
86. OUTGOING CORRESPONDENCE. 1955, 1957-1958, 1960-1962.
Physical Description:
1cf.
Scope and Content Note
Organized into the following categories in the following order: general correspondence placed first, arranged alphabetically
by name of addressee, and correspondence with districts placed thereafter arranged by district. Organized chronologically
thereunder.
Outgoing memoranda and correspondence sent by the Engineer of Design or his staff members in his absence to the State Highway
Engineer (see McCoy and Womack); the engineers in charge of the Bridge (filed under Bridge) and Maintenance (filed under Baxter)
Departments; members of the Design Department (under Internal); the Department of Natural Resources, Division of Beaches and
Parks; state legislators, U.S. Department of Roads, and local officials (under State, County, City, Federal); the general
public (under Misc. California); and to district engineers (filed by district at the end of the series).
Communications largely comprised of reports on the progress of design projects; reviews and recommendations on the advisability,
need, and design of proposed construction projects; notes on meetings of highway design organizations attended by staff members;
and replies to letters received from the U.S. Bureau of Roads, legislators, local officials, and the general public pointing
out road hazards or requesting information on the design program - particularly efforts to beautify roadways.
Folder F3778:2386-2392
87. FREEWAY PROJECT REVIEW FILE. 1948-1961.
Physical Description:
7ff.
Scope and Content Note
Organized by district, route, and section, and chronologically thereunder.
Contains materials collected by the Design Department in the review of proposed freeway construction including memoranda between
Design Department staff members discussing the feasibility of proposed projects; notes on meetings with local officials; preliminary
reports on projects containing detailed descriptions of proposed construction and cost; material reports; resolutions of county
boards of supervisors; maps; and photographs.
Filed separately - photographs relating to proposed construction along VII-LA-165-LA, A (Harbor Freeway), and VII-Ven-2-D,
F3778:2391-2392.
Freeways included in series are:
- VII-LA-158-LA (San Diego Freeway)
- VII-LA-165-LA, A
- VII-Ven-2-D,E,F,G
Folder F3778:2393
88. ROADSIDE BEAUTIFICATION STUDY. 1932.
Physical Description:
1ff.
Scope and Content Note
Report placed first, thereafter maps.
Progress report on efforts by the Division of Highways to beautify roadways and improve the visual effect of road construction.
Includes numerous photographs and maps of areas in which beautification projects had occurred.
Folder F3778:2394
89. ANNUAL TRAFFIC COUNTS. 1929-1948, 1950, 1954, 1955, 1960.
Physical Description:
1ff.
Scope and Content Note
Arranged chronologically.
Charts listing the average daily traffic over a seven day period in July of automobiles and trucks on state highways. Reports
organized by district in order by county, route, and section number. Each report includes a brief narrative introduction analyzing
the changes which had occurred in traffic patterns since the previous year.
Folder F3778:2395-2405
90. RECORDS RE THE INSTITUTE OF TRAFFIC ENGINEERS. 1938-1958.
Physical Description:
11ff.
Scope and Content Note
Speeches delivered at Institute meetings placed first; safety manual inventories placed thereafter arranged chronologically
thereunder.
Speeches
Scope and Content Note
Copies of addresses delivered at meetings of the Institute of Traffic Engineers dealing with the use of various traffic signal
devices and lighting systems to reduce accidents.
Safety Annual Inventories
Scope and Content Note
The National Safety Council (NSC) in conjunction with the Institute of Traffic Engineers carried out a yearly survey of efforts
by State agencies to reduce highway accidents. File contains narrative and statistical reports prepared by the NSC on efforts
to reduce accidents in California in the following areas - legislation, engineering, law enforcement, school traffic safety
education, and public information; reports prepared by highway districts providing statistical information on personnel assigned
to traffic safety, man hours spent on improving safety conditions, and improvements being made to roads; and exhibits submitted
by the Division of Highways to the NSC describing in detail programs being carried out or proposed for the improvement of
traffic safety.
Traffic-Statewide Highway Survey
Folder F3778:2406-2445
91. CENTRAL FILE. 1941-1960.
Physical Description:
2½cf.
Scope and Content Note
Organized into the categories described below in the order listed below and chronologically thereunder.
(a) Annual July Traffic Counts (1940-1942, 1955)
Physical Description:
2ff.
Scope and Content Note
Arranged by route, county, and section. Charts listing for each section
section of highway the total number of automobiles, trucks, trailers, trailer coaches, and passenger car trailers using the
road on a specific Sunday and Monday in July from 6 A.M. to 10 P.M.
(b) Monthly Counts (1942-1956)
Physical Description:
2ff.
Scope and Content Note
Arranged chronologically - summaries of traffic counted at count stations from 6 A.M. to 10 P.M., listing percentage increase
or loss in traffic per district per month.
(d) Border Counts (1946-1956)
Physical Description:
2ff.
Scope and Content Note
Reports placed first, correspondence thereafter, arranged chronologically thereunder. Summary reports of traffic entering
California through border stations, and incoming and outgoing correspondence regarding the movement of vehicles into and out
of the State.
D. Weights (1952-1956)
Physical Description:
1ff.
Scope and Content Note
Memoranda between Division Staff members regarding the construction and operation of weighing stations and circulars from
the Bureau of Public Roads regarding weighing procedures.
(a) Gas Assessment Tax (1941-1956)
Physical Description:
1ff.
Scope and Content Note
Monthly reports of gross receipts and net receipts from the gas tax.
(1) City Gas Tax (1955-1960)
Physical Description:
2ff.
Scope and Content Note
Quarterly reports on the estimated population of the State, and of the population of each city within the State, as well as
the amount apportioned to each city from the Gas Tax Fund for work done on city streets.
(2) Highway Users Tax (1939-1956)
Physical Description:
2ff.
Scope and Content Note
Charts listing funds apportioned to counties from the Highway Users Fund.
J. Accidents (1948-1956)
Physical Description:
1ff.
Scope and Content Note
Memoranda, requests for data on accidents throughout the state, replies containing statistical charts providing the information
requested, and narrative reports on the causes of accidents.
(b) Correspondence (1939-1954)
Physical Description:
1ff.
Scope and Content Note
Memoranda between Division staff members regarding the size, condition, and possible expansion of the State highway system.
Includes mileage charts of system.
(e) Mileage Data (1937-1954)
Physical Description:
4ff.
Scope and Content Note
Charts listing by county and route number the total mileage of highways inside and outside cities, and the mileage of road
divided and not divided.
(a) County Maintained Roads (1940-1954)
Physical Description:
1ff.
Scope and Content Note
Monthly certified mileage of maintained county road reports placed first, and memoranda involving discrepancies in reports
placed thereafter.
(b) Form PR-521 (1938-1943, 1952-1954)
Physical Description:
4ff.
Scope and Content Note
Reports listing mileage of county and local roads and the type of road grading.
(c) Mileage Data (1951, 1953-1954)
Physical Description:
3ff.
Scope and Content Note
Charts showing the status of road improvement in the California primary Federal Aid Highway System.
(a) Correspondence (1937-1953)
Physical Description:
3ff.
Scope and Content Note
Logs of mileage of Federal Aid Secondary System; memoranda between staff members discussing additions to the system, summaries
of meetings with local officials to discuss future building programs, and maps of projects under construction.
D. Forest Highways - Correspondence (1936-1954)
Physical Description:
1ff.
Scope and Content Note
Charts listing mileage of forest highways in the state, memoranda describing projects under construction, rules and regulations
for administering forest roads and trails, and maps of particular projects.
E. Toll Facilities (1939-1954)
Physical Description:
1ff.
Scope and Content Note
Reports on the feasibility of toll roads in California, and memoranda discussing the operation of toll bridges and ferries
in the State.
M. Railroad Crossing (1936-1954)
Physical Description:
2ff.
Scope and Content Note
Communications with the California Railroad Commission, lists of California Railroads, inventories of grade crossing elimination
projects, minutes of meetings with members of the Association of American Railroads, and maps - all relating to a Division
program intended to identify and eliminate dangerous grade crossings.
N. Reservations (1937-1954)
Physical Description:
2ff.
Scope and Content Note
Memoranda; incoming and outgoing correspondence with officials of the U.S. Department of Defense, and with Army and Navy officials
regarding the location of Parks, reservations, and military establishments; inventories of access roads to parks, Indian rancherias,
and military sites; and maps - all relating to a Division of Highways study of access roads leading to Federal and State owned
lands.
O. Freeways (1944-1954)
Physical Description:
1ff.
Scope and Content Note
Copies of incoming and outgoing correspondence with the public regarding questions about the State's freeway building program;
memoranda; statistical charts listing freeway traffic and accident figures; reports on building programs; and maps of existing
and proposed freeways.
A. Annual Report of Expenditures (1941-1955)
Physical Description:
2ff.
Scope and Content Note
Reports prepared by the State-wide Planning Survey of all expenditures of the Division of Highways on construction.
B. County and Local Road Finance Reports (1954-1957)
Physical Description:
1ff.
Scope and Content Note
Accounting of funds delivered by the Division to local governments for road construction.
C. Pavement Life (1940-1955)
Physical Description:
1ff.
Scope and Content Note
Memoranda, notes and data on road life generated in a survey of the life span of various types of pavements used in the State.
Folder F3778:2446-2453
92. SCENIC HIGHWAY STUDY. 1962-1963.
Physical Description:
8ff.
Scope and Content Note
Organized into the following categories in the following order: reports; advisory committee meetings; workshop summaries;
general correspondence; and district correspondence. Arranged chronologically within those categories.
Under the provisions of Senate Resolution 26 (1960, First Extraordinary Session) and Senate Concurrent Resolution 4 (1962,
First Extraordinary Session) the Division of Highways, the Department of Water Resources, the Department of Natural Resources,
the State Planning Office and a Citizens Advisory Committee jointly appointed by the President Pro Tempore of the Senate and
the Speaker of the Assembly carried out an investigation of the planning, design, and scenic conservation problems associated
with the development of a state-wide system of scenic highways and the preservation of California's scenic resources along
these highways.
Reports (1962)
Physical Description:
1ff.
Scope and Content Note
Preliminary and final reports of the investigation containing descriptions of the study, recommendations, photographic reproductions,
and maps of the proposed system of state scenic highways.
Advisory Committee Meetings (1961-1962)
Physical Description:
1ff.
Scope and Content Note
Agendas, minutes, and enclosures of meetings of the Advisory Committee on Scenic Highways.
Workshop Meeting Summaries (1962)
Physical Description:
1ff.
Scope and Content Note
Of local meetings to discuss local urban planning between representatives of the Division of Highways, the U.S. Forestry Service,
local planning commissions, county supervisors, and interested parties. Includes a map of the proposed scenic highway system
for reference.
General Correspondence (1962-1963)
Physical Description:
1ff.
Scope and Content Note
Letters received from local planning commissions, boards of supervisors, and organizations such as the California Roadside
Council and the California Automobile Club making recommendations and requesting information on the study, and copies of replies
by the Director of the Department of Agriculture and the State Highway Engineer.
District Correspondence (1962-1963)
Physical Description:
4ff.
Scope and Content Note
Notes and resumes of meetings between district officers and local officials, resolutions of boards of supervisors, reports
by county governments, copies of articles appearing in local newspapers, and communications between district representatives
of the Division of Highways and local representatives of the Division of Parks and Recreation discussing proposed scenic routes.
Folder F3778:2454-2465
93. CENTRAL FILE. 1965-1969.
Physical Description:
12ff.
Scope and Content Note
Organized into the categories listed below in the order listed below. Arranged chronologically within those categories.
Monthly Management Reports (1968-March, 1969)
Physical Description:
2ff.
Scope and Content Note
Of units of the Planning and Evaluation Department, of the Division of Highways, and of highway districts reporting on their
activities and of the probable costs of their operations.
Operating Economy Reports (1968-1969)
Physical Description:
1ff.
Scope and Content Note
Of units of the Planning and Evaluation Department reporting on efforts undertaken to reduce costs.
Staff Newsletter (1966-1967)
Physical Description:
2ff.
Scope and Content Note
Copies of Division of Highways newsletter announcing changes in staffing and procedures.
Memoranda, re Meetings (1966-1967)
Physical Description:
2ff.
Scope and Content Note
Notes prepared by staff members on meetings of engineering and urban planning groups - including the West Bay Transit Authority
and the Planning Advisory Committee.
Interstate System Route Recommendations (1967-1968)
Physical Description:
2ff.
Scope and Content Note
Copies of recommendations sent to the U.S. Bureau of Public Roads proposing routes to be included under the National System
of Interstate and Defense Highways. Also contains incoming and outgoing correspondence with local officials and Congressmen,
resolutions of county boards of supervisors, reports, and maps relating to proposed interstate routes.
State Interdepartmental Research Coordinating Committee (1965-1968)
Physical Description:
2ff.
Scope and Content Note
The State Interdepartmental Research Coordinating Committee was established in 1945, for the purposes of suggesting ways of
correlating statistical and research work among state agencies, helping to improve the quality of research undertaken, and
avoiding unnecessary duplication of research. Contains lists of members, minutes, agendas, resolutions, copies of reports
delivered at meetings, and miscellaneous enclosures.
Public Works Task Force on Intergovernmental Information Systems (1965-1968)
Physical Description:
1ff.
Scope and Content Note
Appointed by the governor in January, 1966, to investigate means of integrating information systems used by city, county and
state road building agencies. Contains minutes, agendas, enclosures and reports.
Folder F3778:2466-2489
94. SUBJECT FILE OF URBAN PLANNER, C.R. BEERS. 1963-1968.
Physical Description:
1½cf.
Scope and Content Note
Organized by numeric filing code described below and chronologically within specific categories.
Subject Areas:
(1) Agreements
Scope and Content Note
Copies of agreements, contracts and related incoming and outgoing correspondence involving urban transportation studies, including
studies of the Los Angeles Regional Transit System (LARTS), and the Bay Area Transit System (BATS).
(2) Studies
Scope and Content Note
Reports, minutes, and related correspondence relating to studies carried out on possible boat, airplane and agricultural fuel
tax refunds, and of the possibility of using a systems approach to collection of data on land use planning.
(3) Government
Scope and Content Note
Recommendations by C.R. Beers for future planning projects prepared for the 1968 Governor's Conference; memoranda and circulars
dealing with the effects of recent Federal and State legislation on urban planning programs; and minutes of the State Planning
Advisory Committee.
(4) Circulars
Scope and Content Note
Indexed series of circulars dealing with changes in policies and procedures, distributed by Beers to his staff.
(5) Governor's Task Force on Economics
Scope and Content Note
Memoranda prepared by Beers on means of making his Department more efficient (includes an organization chart).
(6) Governor's Task Force on Transportation
Scope and Content Note
Reports and copies of incoming and outgoing correspondence (composed largely of criticisms of the final report by Task Force
members).
(7) Staff Meetings
Scope and Content Note
Agendas and minutes.
(9) Metropolitan Transportation Engineering Board
Scope and Content Note
Minutes of meetings.
Folder F3778:2490-2492
95. COUNTY RECEIPT AND DISBURSEMENT STATEMENTS. 1937-1954.
Physical Description:
3ff.
Scope and Content Note
Arranged alphabetically by county.
Bar graphs showing Federal, state, and county funds received and spent for road construction and maintenance, and charts summarizing
receipts and disbursements for road purposes between 1937 and 1954.
Folder F3778:2493-2523
96. CENTRAL FILE. 1943-1955, 1960-1968.
Physical Description:
31ff.
Scope and Content Note
Organized alphabetically by subject and chronologically thereunder.
Memoranda; drafts, notes, and copies of speeches delivered by Frank C. Balfour, Chief Right of Way Agent, members of his staff,
and experts outside the Division of Highways regarding the obtaining of rights of way, the economic impact of highway construction,
and legal aspects of road building; minutes of Right of Way Agent Conferences (1955); communications with district personnel
regarding changes in procedures and special problems at the local level; copies of the United States Bureau of Public Roads
(BPR) guidelines for right of way studies and beautification impact studies; correspondence, reports, and statistical data
relating to the Senate Interim Committee on In Lieu Taxation (studying whether the Division of Highways should pay local governments
an in lieu property tax - 1955); copies of speeches delivered at WASHO meetings.
Subjects dealt with include: private appraisers, house sales, rentals of State property, utility relocations, the spending
of Highway acquisition funds, marginal leads (see report), and lead time in land purchases (see report).
Folder F3778:2524-2547
97. GENERAL CORRESPONDENCE. 1970.
Physical Description:
1cf.
Scope and Content Note
Chronological correspondence placed first, and thereafter correspondence arranged alphabetically by subject.
Memoranda between headquarters and field personnel of the Right of Way Department; directives sent to district right of way
agents; condemnation resolutions; legal opinions; reports; statistical summaries; incoming and outgoing correspondence with
property owners; minutes, enclosures, and reports of professional organizations including the AASHO, and the American Right
of Way Association; and scattered project maps.
Subjects dealt with include: the use of airspace above or below road-ways for parks or buildings, outdoor advertising, hardship
and protection
cases, and the obtaining of rights of way from railroads.
Folder F3778:2548-2560
98. DISTRICT CORRESPONDENCE. 1954.
Physical Description:
13ff.
Scope and Content Note
Organized by district and chronologically thereunder.
Copies of memoranda between the Highway Engineer, Right of Way Department personnel, and the Division of Contracts and Right
of Way, and district right of way agents regarding the appraisal and purchase of land, the rental of state land, and the sale
of excess property. Enclosures attached to memoranda comprise project maps, copies of quitclaims, relinquishments of state
land, and director's deeds.
Folder F3778:2561-2578
99. AMERICAN RIGHT OF WAY ASSOCIATION FILES. 1953-1962.
Physical Description:
18ff.
Scope and Content Note
Organized into the following categories in the following order: correspondence; speeches; and studies. Thereunder arranged
in order described below.
Correspondence (1953-1962)
Physical Description:
7ff.
Scope and Content Note
General correspondence placed first, thereafter correspondence of committees, and communications with districts. Letters received
from and sent to members of the American Right of Way Association (ARWA) by staff members of the Right of Way Department discussing
the progress of Association studies of right of way problem areas, and upcoming meetings; communications between members of
committees studying the practicality of land economic planning and memoranda sent to and received from highway districts dealing
with the effects of freeways on the economic condition of communities.
Speeches (1957-1961)
Physical Description:
2ff.
Scope and Content Note
Copies of addresses delivered at ARWA and WASHO conferences and seminars. Topics discussed include practical liaison, roadside
merchandising, the economic effects of freeways, remainder parcels, and land economic studies.
Studies (1951, 1959-1962)
Physical Description:
9ff.
Scope and Content Note
Drafts of reports, incoming and outgoing correspondence, maps, and photographs relating to investigations carried out by the
Right of Way Department for the ARWA into controlled access to freeways, the value of agricultural lands, trailer parks, and
the effect of highway construction on property values.
Filed separately, photographs (F3778:2579-2585).
Folder F3778:2586-2592
100. CONTRACT AND LEASE APPROVAL FILE. 1955.
Physical Description:
7ff.
Scope and Content Note
Schedules of approved contracts placed first, arranged chronologically, and correspondence re bridge contracts placed thereafter
organized alphabetically by name of bridge.
Schedules of contracts approved, listing number of contracts closed, by district, and by individual right of way agent; and
copies of memoranda sent between the Right of Way Department and the Bridge Department, Division of Contracts and Right of
Way, and the Toll Bridge Authority regarding the terms of contracts relating to construction and/or maintenance of bridges
and access ramps, and the granting of concessions to utilities and transit companies.
Folder F3778:2593-2616
101. PROPERTY CONDEMNATION APPRAISALS. 1949-1956.
Physical Description:
1½cf.
Scope and Content Note
Organized by district, route and section, and thereunder alphabetically by name of owner of property.
Valuations of property to be condemned for highway rights of way, prepared for the Division of Highways by private appraisers.
Appraisals contain a description of the property, buildings, and improvements; an itemized accounting of the cash value of
property, buildings and improvements; and frequently floor plans, maps, and photographs.
Series sampled by name of property owner (letters A, G, S, and W only). No appraisals exist for Districts II and IX.
Filed separately, photographs (F3778:2617-2623).
Folder F3778:2624-2682
102. STATE BUILDING SITE APPRAISALS. 1945-1954.
Physical Description:
3cf.
Scope and Content Note
Organized alphabetically by location of site, and by title of proposed building; and thereunder correspondence placed first
and appraisals placed thereafter.
At the discretion of the Director of Public Works, the Right of Way Department in conjunction with the Department of Finance
may obtain land for other State agencies.
Appraisal files containing memoranda between the Right of Way Department and the Department of Finance, and between Right
of Way field agents and the Chief Right of Way Agent; incoming and outgoing correspondence with property owners and renters
of affected property; legal documents; appraisals; photographs; maps; and floor plans relating to state condemnation and purchase
of properties for the construction or expansion of state facilities.
Series also includes numerous photographs of Victorian houses in Sacramento (F3778:2695).
Following list included:
Atascadero - Maximum Security Facility (1947-1950)
Physical Description:
2ff.
Berkeley - Department of Public Health Center (1946-1952)
Physical Description:
9ff.
Copperopolis - Fire Control Station (1953-1954)
Physical Description:
1ff.
Fresno - State College Site (1946-1952)
Physical Description:
7ff.
Scope and Content Note
Filed separately, Photographs (F3778:2683-2685).
Grizzly Island, Solano Co. - purchase of island (1949)
Physical Description:
2ff.
Humboldt Bay Public Recreation Area (1952)
Physical Description:
1ff.
Indio - State Office Building (1950-1953)
Physical Description:
1ff.
Scope and Content Note
Filed separately, photographs (F3778:2687).
Los Angeles - State Office Building (1948-1954)
Physical Description:
14ff.
Scope and Content Note
Filed separately, photographs (F3778:2686).
Norwalk - Youth Authority School and Clinics (1947-1953)
Physical Description:
2ff.
Scope and Content Note
Filed separately, photographs (F3778:2688).
Parkfield - Fire Control Station (1949)
Physical Description:
1ff.
Sacramento - State College Site (1948-1952)
Physical Description:
1ff.
Scope and Content Note
Filed separately, photographs (F3778:2693).
Sacramento - State Fair Site (1945-1952)
Physical Description:
2ff.
Sacramento - State Governor's Mansion, proposed O Street location (1947-1953)
Physical Description:
3ff.
Scope and Content Note
Filed separately, photographs (F3778:2689).
Sacramento - State Garage Site (1945-1946)
Physical Description:
4ff.
Sacramento - State Office Building Sites along O Street and Capitol Ave. (1946-1947)
Physical Description:
4ff.
Scope and Content Note
Filed separately, photographs (F3778:2690-2691).
Sacramento - Public Works Building, 11th and O Streets (1948-1952)
Physical Description:
4ff.
Scope and Content Note
Filed separately, photographs (F3778:2692).
Salinas - Department of Employment Building (1948-1952)
Physical Description:
1ff.
Scope and Content Note
Filed separately, photographs (F3778:2694).
San Francisco - District IV Headquarters Building (1945-1953)
Physical Description:
2ff.
Truckee - Plant Quarantine Station (1949-1950)
Physical Description:
1ff.
Folder F3778:2696-2735
103. BAY TOLL CROSSING APPRAISAL FILE. 1956-1973.
Physical Description:
1½cf.
Scope and Content Note
General correspondence placed first; thereafter correspondence relating to specific bridges arranged alphabetically by name
of bridge, and thereunder alphabetically by subject.
Memoranda; incoming and outgoing correspondence with the Division of Bay Toll Crossings; reports; valuations; project maps;
and photographs relating to the appraisal of property to be condemned for the expansion of toll bridge facilities and ramps,
and the preparation of leases of parking lots and concession areas in toll bridge facilities.
Includes: the Carquinez Bridge, Dumbarton Bridge, Martinez-Benicia Ferry System, Richmond-San Rafael Crossing, San Francisco-Oakland
Bay Bridge (SFOBB), San Diego-Coronado Bridge, San Pedro-Terminal Island Bridge, and the Vincent Thomas Bridge. of special
interest are folders dealing with the Embarcadero Freeway and the Bay Area Rapid Transit System (see SFOBB).
Filed separately, photographs of bridges and condemned property. (F3778:2736-2740).
Folder F3778:2741-2766
104. WATER RESOURCES APPRAISAL FILE. 1960-1968.
Physical Description:
26ff.
Scope and Content Note
Organized by Department of Water Resources district number in ascending order.
Right of Way Department appraisals - including photographs and project maps, and related correspondence regarding joint right
of way projects between the Division of Highways and the Department of Water Resources for the purchase of rights of way for
water projects.
Sampling--includes the following projects:
III Oroville Division - Oroville Dam and Reservoir (1968)
Physical Description:
1ff.
Scope and Content Note
Filed separately, photographs (F3778:2767).
VIII Santa Ana Division - Perris Reservoir, Southern California Aqueduct System (1960-1968)
Physical Description:
2ff.
Scope and Content Note
Filed separately, photographs (F3778:2771-2787)
X North San Joaquin Division - Bethany Reservoir to San Luis Forebay (1965-1968)
Physical Description:
1ff.
Scope and Content Note
Filed separately, photographs (F3778:2770).
Folder F3778:2771-2787
105. LAND ECONOMIC STUDY SECTION FILE. 1950-1961.
Physical Description:
17ff.
Scope and Content Note
General correspondence placed first, organized chronologically. Thereafter, study files arranged alphabetically by title of
study.
The Land Economic Study Section investigates the economic effects of freeway development on local communities.
General Correspondence (1950-1954)
Physical Description:
2ff.
Scope and Content Note
- memoranda dealing with economic study goals and procedures, requests by the public for information on the results of economic
studies, and copies of replies to requests by right of way agents.
Study Files (1951-1961)
Physical Description:
15ff.
Scope and Content Note
- drafts of studies and working papers comprising memoranda; correspondence received from local businesses reporting on their
quarterly profits both before and after freeway development; graphs, charts, and statistical summaries of business trends,
land values, and property development; project maps; and before and after photographs of businesses.
Includes studies of the effects on large urban areas, small towns, and agricultural lands, as well as the potential feasibility
of toll roads.
Filed separately, photographs removed from studies of Delhi, Santa Rosa, Kingsburg, and Oakland. (F3778:2788-2792).
Folder F3778:2793-2800
106. ROADSIDE REST PROGRAM FILE. 1953, 1966-1974.
Physical Description:
8ff.
Scope and Content Note
Organized into the following categories in the following order: reports; general correspondence; and correspondence relating
to specific rest area sites (arranged alphabetically by name of site).
Reports by Division of Highways and private firms on the feasibility and desirability of roadside stops; memoranda; incoming
and outgoing correspondence with contractors and the general public; cost data; surveys; background information; project maps;
plans; color sketches; and photographs relating to the development of roadside rest areas and information centers along California
highways.
Folder F3778:2801-2803
107. SLIDES. Undated.
Physical Description:
220 items. 3 cases filed in Photo Box #8.
Scope and Content Note
Organized into the following categories in the following order: economic development survey slides; service station and motel
study slides, and training slides.
Color and black and white slides probably prepared in the 1950's or early 1960's for various presentations.
Economic Development Studies (see Slide Box #1)
Scope and Content Note
Arranged alphabetically by name of town or city - 150 slides showing economic development which occurred along the routes
of freeways throughout California. Includes scattered charts illustrating changing property values. Numerous scenes of Los
Angeles, San Francisco, and Sacramento.
Service Station and Motels Study (see Slide Box #2)
Scope and Content Note
40 slides of typical roadside facilities in West Sacramento along route No. 40 and similar facilities along route No. 101.
Training Slides (see Slide Box #3)
Scope and Content Note
30 slides illustrating how to read a right of way map, means to be used in carrying out surveys, and ways of assessing property
values.
Highway Advisory Committee
Folder F3778:2804
108. FINAL REPORT. 1925.
Physical Description:
1 Vol.
Scope and Content Note
On February 2, 1924, a special Highway Advisory Committee was appointed by the Governor in accordance with the provisions
of
Stats. 1923, ch. 241, to undertake a study of the state highway system for the purpose of making a report on the state of highway
construction in California, methods of obtaining additional revenues, and means of establishing realistic rates at which the
system could be constructed and a time to require it to be brought to completion.
Report contains a description of the study, a history of the state highway system; discussion of construction maintenance,
bridge building, right of way and county road construction programs; recommendations about improved financing, information
on the use of convict labor, maps, and a summary of Committee recommendations. The reports include maps, charts, and graphs.
109. HIGHWAY MAPS. 1913-1960, and Undated.
Physical Description:
5ff. and 10 Vols.
Scope and Content Note
Official State Highway maps placed first. Thereafter, maps organized chronologically.
Folder F3778:2805-2807
Official State Highway Maps (1913, 1918, 1920, 1922, 1924, 1925, 1926, 1928, 1930, 1938, 1942, 1944, 1946, 1949, 1951, 1952, 1953, 1954, 1955, 1956, 1957,
1958, 1960)
Physical Description:
3ff.
Scope and Content Note
Maps showing all state highways and listing whether they were constructed under bond issues or built by legislative act. Includes
in lower left-hand corner a complete list of state highway routes. Size: 210" by 24". Scale: 1" = 30 miles.
Folder F3778:2808
United States System of Highways (Nov. 11, 1926)
Physical Description:
1 map
Scope and Content Note
Showing all United States highways and the uniform markings approved by the American Association of State Highways officials.
Prepared by the Federal Works Agency. Corrected to 1943. Size: 24" by 34". Scale: 1" = 75 miles.
Folder F3778:2809
Federal Aid Highway System: Showing Progress of Improvements and United States Highway System (1929)
Physical Description:
1 Vol.
Scope and Content Note
See index map for the organization of maps within the volume. Maps of each state show existing and proposed Federal Highway
system roads. Size: 26" by 110". Scale: 1" = 7.891 miles.
Folder F3778:2810
Highway Transportation Survey of 1934 (1934)
Physical Description:
1 Vol.
Scope and Content Note
Volume organized alphabetically by county. Contains extremely detailed maps of each county within the State, showing the volume
of traffic on each road within the county as determined by a January, 1934 survey. Size: 2 by 2. Scale: 1" = 2 miles.
Folder F3778:2811-2814
State-Wide Highway Planning Survey Maps (1937)
Physical Description:
4 Vols.
Scope and Content Note
Arranged alphabetically by name of county within volumes. Maps of each county within the state prepared from data obtained
from the State-Wide Highway Planning Survey. Maps show condition of roads, congested areas, railroads, bridges, trestles,
geographic features, and structures. Extremely detailed - frequently two or three maps illustrating a single county. Size:
14" by 16". Scale: varies.
Folder F3778:2815
Highway Map Portfolio (1943)
Physical Description:
1 Vol.
Scope and Content Note
Indexed volume of maps prepared by the Division of Highways showing the following: state highways designated by legislative
acts; federally funded roadways; U.S. and State numbered highways; freeways declared by the CHC; highways designated by bond
issue; the boundaries of each highway district; and road maps of San Francisco, Los Angeles, San Bernardino, Bakersfield,
Fresno, Sacramento, San Diego, San Jose, Santa Barbara, and Stockton. Size: 2 by 16". Scale: varies.
Folder F3778:2816
Feeder and Access Roads, Not on the State Highway System (1949)
Physical Description:
1 Vol.
Scope and Content Note
Highway district maps and maps of urban areas showing recent construction of feeder and access roads. Size: 2 by 16". Scale:
1" = 10 miles.
Folder F3778:2817) (F3778:2818
District Maps (1946, 1957)
Physical Description:
1ff. and 1 Vol.
Scope and Content Note
Maps showing the boundaries of state highway districts and listing all route and section numbers, as well as roadways constructed
with Federal funding.
Maps should be consulted to obtain district, county, route, and section numbers when using series organized in that fashion.
1946: 1 Vol. Size: 110" by 14". Scale: 1" = 1 mi.
1957: 11 maps. Size: 11" by 8½". Scale: 1" = 25 mi.
Folder F3778:2819
Defense Access and Flight Strip Projects Built During World War II. (Undated)
Physical Description:
1 Vol.
Scope and Content Note
Whiteprints arranged alphabetically by county showing access roads constructed to air strips. Size: 16" by 16". Scale: 1"
= 2 mi.
Department of Transportation
Folder F3778:2820-2905
110. SUBJECT FILE OF DIRECTOR JAMES A. MOE. 1973.
Physical Description:
86ff. 3cf.
Scope and Content Note
Organized alphabetically by subject and chronologically thereunder.
Memoranda; activity reports, traffic studies; minutes of staff meetings and of meetings of the California Transportation Board,
the Metropolitan Transportation Commission, and the Scenic Highways Advisory Commission; copies of speeches and articles;
and incoming and outgoing correspondence with officials of other state agencies, and the general public.
Topics dealt with include: accidents, construction of roads, environmental protection (filed under U.S. Bureaus), the energy
crisis, honor camps, roadside rest stops, safety, scenic highways, toll bridges, and transportation planning.
Division of Transportation Planning
Folder F3778:2906-2975
111. CENTRAL FILE. 1958-1973.
Physical Description:
3cf.
Scope and Content Note
Organized by Division filing code described below. Thereunder, arranged chronologically unless otherwise mentioned below.
The Division of Transportation inherited the functions of the Department of Urban Planning of the Division of Planning and
the responsibility for certain types of traffic counts carried out in conjunction with future transportation planning, previously
handled by the Department of Traffic. Certain of the records of those two units were incorporated into the records of the
Division of Transportation.
(3) General Correspondence (1966-1968)
Physical Description:
3ff.
Scope and Content Note
Memoranda sent to and received from highway engineers and incoming and outgoing communications with legislators and the general
public regarding questions about speed limits, signs posted along freeways, and planned future developments. Special topics
dealt with include air transportation (3.1) and mass transportation (3.3).
(4) Intra-Departmental Records (1960-1973)
Physical Description:
5ff.
Scope and Content Note
Annual reports of both the Urban Planning and the Transportation Planning Departments (4.1); minutes and agendas of staff
meetings (4.8); organizational charts (4.107); memoranda between staff members dealing with the possible creation of a toll
road at Echo Summit (4.53); notes on conferences attended (4.55); and incoming and outgoing correspondence with local governments
in Southern California regarding the designation of special bus lanes on freeways (4.58).
(5) Federal Government (1964-1968)
Physical Description:
4ff.
Scope and Content Note
Communications with Federal agencies regarding cooperative programs, memoranda discussing the Division of Highways' position
on proposed Federal funding, and Bureau of Public Roads bulletins. Subjects dealt with include the Traffic Operations Program
for Increasing Capacity and Safety (TOPICS), and the removal of snow from Echo Tunnel.
(6) Regional Transportation (1958-1969)
Physical Description:
29ff.
Scope and Content Note
Contains the following:
Minutes, resolutions, newsletters, traffic flow reports, population projections, roadway surveys, and aviation plans relating
to regional transportation studies in Bakersfield (6.2), in Contra Costa Co. (6.3), in Los Angeles (LARTS) (6.47), Stockton
(6.413), Orange County (6.56), and Ventura (6.57), as well as studies carried out in conjunction with the Southern California
Association of Governments (SCAG) (6.410).
Special studies files containing reports, memoranda and related correspondence generated during investigations of the advisability
of widening the road to Mineral King, of the need for improving roads leading to Yosemite, and of the probable effects on
California if the war in Viet Nam were ended in 1969 (6.57).
Memoranda and communications with Federal officials regarding the designation of urban areas for the purpose of receiving
Federal funding (6.82).
(7) Publications and Speeches (1968-1973)
Physical Description:
4ff.
Scope and Content Note
By staff members dealing with the subject of advanced transportation planning and programs being carried out by the Department.
(9) Traffic (1961-1968)
Physical Description:
20ff.
Scope and Content Note
Memoranda and incoming and outgoing correspondence with transportation agencies in other states and other countries regarding
California's use of computers in traffic studies (9.83); reports received and proposed on accidents occurring on highways
(9.72); reports and related memoranda relating to traffic counts carried out to analyze local traffic patterns for the purpose
of establishing new routes or redirecting the flow of traffic on existing roadways. General material placed first, reports
dealing with specific districts (1,2,4,5, & 7) placed thereafter in order by district (9.73), and progress reports of the
Bay Area Transit Study (BATS), and the Regional Transit Plan in the Los Angeles area (9.83).
(10) Sec. 2156 Study (1967-1968)
Physical Description:
4 ff.
Scope and Content Note
Under Section 2156 of the Streets and Highways Code, city and county road improvements are to be yearly audited. Contains
minutes, memoranda, and correspondence of the Advisory Committee on Section 2156, which is responsible for this function.
Miscellaneous Photographs
Folder F3778:2976-3043
112. PHOTOGRAPHS, DISTRICTS I - X. 1912 - 1936.
Physical Description:
70ff.
Scope and Content Note
Arranged by district and alphabetically by county thereunder.
Photographs and negatives depicting various stages of highway and road construction projects, including bridges, construction
equipment, rural roadside structures, mule and horse drawn equipment, road camp facilities, convict labor, rock quarrying,
water
damage, tree maintenance, and scenic highways. Also includes photographs on specific subject matter as the Folsom Prison quarry
operations, Wells Fargo Station and Trading Post at Timbuctoo (Yuba County), opening ceremonies at The Rocks (San Benito County),
construction of the Yolo Trestle.
Counties represented include the following. The appearance of a county under more than one district reflects the pre-1924
changes in district boundaries.
- District I
- Del Norte, Humboldt, Lake, and Mendocino.
- District II
- Lassen, Shasta, Siskiyou, Tehama, and Trinity.
- District III
- Butte, Colusa, El Dorado, Glen, Nevada, Placer, Sacramento, Sierra, Stanislaus, Sutter, Tuolumne, Yolo, and Yuba.
- District IV
- Alameda, Contra Costa, Marin, Napa, San Mateo, Santa Clara, Santa Cruz, and Sonoma.
- District V
- Monterey, San Benito, and San Luis Obispo.
- District VI
- Fresno, Kern, Madera, Mariposa, Merced and Tulare.
- District VII
- Imperial, Los Angeles, Orange, San Diego, San Bernardino, and Ventura.
- District VIII
- Imperial, Riverside, and San Bernardino.
- District IX
- Inyo, Kern and Mono.
- District X
- Amador, Calaveras, Sacramento, San Joaquin, Solano, Stanislaus, Tuolumne, and Yolo,
Folder F3778:3044-3077
113. PHOTOGRAPHS: AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHS 1938, 1940 - 1941.
Physical Description:
34ff.
Scope and Content Note
Arranged chronologically and by numeric filing system thereunder.
File features aerial contact prints and listing of District II (Redding) topographical mosaics submitted for report and design
study.
Folder F3778:3078-3085
114. PHOTOGRAPHS: CARQUINEZ BRIDGE (1923 - 1929)
Physical Description:
8ff.
Scope and Content Note
Arranged chronologically.
This file contains cardboard-mounted black and white photographs illustrating various stages of construction of the Carquinez
Bridge including views of: the construction wharf, erection of falsework, cofferdams, pumps, concrete piles, fender system,
beam grillages, pier anchorage and excavation, floating caissons, pile drivers, steelcutting shoes, anchor barges, ships,
viaduct approach, sewer realignment and a bronze fog bell.
Folder F3778:3086-3384
115. LEGISLATIVE FILES, 1962-70
Physical Description:
294f.
Scope and Content Note
Organized by legislative session, records series detailed below, and alphabetically and/or chronologically thereunder
(1) Legislative Committees: committee hearing notices, agenda, correspondence, hearing analyses reports, and related records
concerning hearings at which department representatives appeared to present testimony or information. Also includes miscellaneous
correspondence with legislators regarding specific legislation and district needs and problems.
(2) Special Subject Files: various issues, problems, or needs as addressed by legislation and/or other legislative responses
in a given session.
(3) Agency and Other Legislative Proposals: bill drafts and justifications as submitted by divisional chiefs, district engineers
and programs managers; local government, outside agency and organization legislative proposals; progress reports and summary
digests of legislation enacted.
(4) Bill Files: proposed amendments; analyses; position statements in support or opposition; enrolled bill reports; Legislative
Counsel and other opinions and conflict letters; background information and data; progress and implementation reports; miscellaneous
other records on measures sponsored or mentioned by the department.
(5) Federal Legislation: federal legislation monitored, supported or opposed. Includes department or other testimony; correspondence
with U.S. legislators and Federal agency officials regarding amendments; compliance, funding, etc.
Folder F3778:3086-3087
(2) Special Subject Files: Budget-Item 271, Blythe Clarion, Item 4022, San Pedro-Terminal Island Bridge; 1962 Statewide Conference
on Traffic Accident Reporting and Data Processing.
Physical Description:
(2f)
Folder F3778:3088
(4) Bill Files: SB 1, SCR 20, SR 26, ACR 4, HR 40, HR 86, SB 22x, SCR 9x, SCR 12x, SR 15x, SR 25x, AB 27x, AB 60x, HR 78x,
HR 107x, HR 23xx, summary of measures passed.
Physical Description:
(1f)
Folder F3778:3089-3090
(5) Federal Legislation: correspondence; HR 11199-HR 12135, relocating displacees.
Physical Description:
(2f)
Folder F3778:3091-3092
(1) Legislative Committees: Assembly Governmental Efficiency and Economy, Transportation and Commerce, Ways and Means; Joint
Interim Committee on Speed Zones and Speed Limit Signs, 1957-58.
Physical Description:
(2f)
Folder F3778:3093-3097
(2) Special Subject Files: E.D.P. Indexing of Legislation; Redwood Highway-Avenue of the Giants development; roadside rests
and parks development, 1953-63.
Physical Description:
(5f)
Folder F3778:3098-3102
(3) Agency and Other Legislative Proposals: includes City of Los Angeles, State Building and Construction Trades Council;
miscellaneous proposals; bill reports and digests
Physical Description:
(5f)
Folder F3778:3103-3115
(4) Bill Files: SB 6-SB 1592, SCA 4-SCA 24, SCR 5-SCR 68, SJR 3, SJR 11, SR 33, SR 109
Physical Description:
(13f)
Folder F3778:3116-3129
AB 16-AB 3160, ACA 6-ACA 58, ACR 34-ACR 75, AJR 5-AJR 41, HR 43-HR 584
Physical Description:
(14f)
Folder F3778:3130
HR 102x
Physical Description:
(1f)
Folder F3778:3131-3133
(5) Federal Legislation: general, correspondence, exchange of land with USN-Monterey Freeway
Physical Description:
(3f)
Folder F3778:3134
(3) Miscellaneous Legislative Proposals
Physical Description:
(1f)
Folder F3778:3135
(4) Bill Files: SB 1, SB 3, SCR 2, SJR 1, SJR 2, AB 1,
Physical Description:
(1f)
Folder F3778:3136
SB 14x-SB 44x, SJR 1x, SJR 3x, SR 58x
Physical Description:
(1f)
Folder F3778:3137
AB 9x-AB 177x, ACR 3x-ACR 67x, HR 251x-HR 392x
Physical Description:
(1f)
Folder F3778:3138
SB 2xx, AB 1xx
Physical Description:
(1f)
Folder F3778:3139-3146
(1) Legislative Committees: Assembly Judiciary, Natural Resources, Planning and Public Works, Transportation and Commerce,
Ways and Means and Assembly correspondence; Senate General Research, Natural Resources, Transportation and Public Utilities
Physical Description:
(6f)
Folder F3778:3147-3149
(2) Special Subject Files: Beaches and Parks; December 1964 flood damage to highways and bridges in Del Norte, Humboldt, Trinity
and Mendocino counties (36 photos); Wrong-Way Driver studies
Physical Description:
(3f)
Folder F3778:3150-3151
(3) Agency and Other Legislative Proposals: agency including Bridge Department and City of Los Angeles
Physical Description:
(2f)
Folder F3778:3152-3166
(4) Bill Files: SB 1-SB 1350, SCA 13, SCA 21, SCR 12-SCR 89, SJR 1-SJR 43, SR 2-SR 299
Physical Description:
(15f)
Folder F3778:3167-3179
AB 3-AB 3461, ACA 2-ACA 72, ACR 28-ACR 128, AJR 26, AJR 35, HR 28-HR 182
Physical Description:
(13f)
Folder F3778:3180
SR 23x, SCR 4xx, SCR 6xx, ACR 9xx,
Physical Description:
(1f)
Folder F3778:3181
(1) Legislative Committees: Assembly Natural Resources, Planning and Public Works
Physical Description:
(1f)
Folder F3778:3182-3186
(2) Special Subject Files: Californians for Modern Highways, Inc. promoting freeway construction; highway beautification-regulation
of junkyards and preservation of scenic areas
Physical Description:
(5f)
Folder F3778:3187-3189
(4) Bill Files: SB 26x, AB 51x-AB 193x, ACA 4x, ACA 13x, ACR 7x-ACR 44x, HR 52x-HR 551x
Physical Description:
(3f)
Folder F3778:3190
SB 2xx, SB 5xx, AB 3xx
Physical Description:
(1f)
Folder F3778:3191-3198
(5) Federal Legislation: bills; correspondence; Urban Mass Transportation Act of 1964 - research applications; Interstate
40 rerouting around Needles; Public Works and Economic Act of 1965; HR 15963, Department of Transportation Act; Federal Aid
Highway Act of 1966; S 3052, Highway Safety Act of 1966
Physical Description:
(8f)
Folder F3778:3199-3200
(1) Legislative Committees: Assembly Natural Resources, Planning and Public Works, Revenue and Taxation, Transportation and
Commerce; Senate Transportation and Public Utilities
Physical Description:
(2f)
Folder F3778:3201-3204
(2) Special Subject Files: Highway Safety Research Program, 1961-66; Speed Limit Study; Transportation-Employment Project
Physical Description:
(4f)
Folder F3778:3205-3216
(4) Bill Files: Preprint SB 1, SB 2-SB 1524, SCA 8-SCA 53, SCR 21-SCR 80, SJR 7-SJR 8, SR 21-SR 346
Physical Description:
(12f)
Folder F3778:3217-3231
AB 3-AB 2570, ACA 11-ACA 45, ACR 27-ACR 140, AJR 19, HR 55-HR 570
Physical Description:
(15f)
Folder F3778:3232
SCR 1xx, SCR 2xx
Physical Description:
(1f)
Folder F3778:3233-3234
(1) Legislative Committees: Assembly Governmental Organization, Industrial Relations, Natural Resources, Planning and Public
Works
Physical Description:
(2f)
Folder F3778:3235-3239
(2) Special Subject Files: Auburn Dam and Route 49 location; California State Development Plan Program; National California
Coastal Scenic Redwood Road Committee; Park access roads; San Francisco freeway problems, 1962-68
Physical Description:
(5f)
Folder F3778:3240-3242
(3) Agency and Other Legislative Proposals: general; assessment of stateowned property
Physical Description:
(3f)
Folder F3778:3243-3251
(4) Bill Files: SB 2-SB 1225, SCR 14-SCR 104, SJR 6, SJR 10, SR 57-SR 336,
Physical Description:
(9f)
Folder F3778:3252-3268
AB 2-AB 2090, ACA 40, ACR 3-ACR 166, HR 95-HR 576
Physical Description:
(17f)
Folder F3778:3268a
SB 17x, SJR 1x, SR 12x, AB 12x, AB 13x
Physical Description:
(1f)
Folder F3778:3269-3285
(5) Federal Legislation: bills, miscellaneous correspondence; DOT proposed legislation; Demonstration Cities and Metropolitan
Act of 1966; Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1968; Federal Aid highway funds correspondence; Highway User Act of 1968; Home Rule
Road Program; S 2658, Vehicle Weight and Width Limitations; proposed rules re: public hearings on location and design approval
covering all Federal-Aid highway projects
Physical Description:
(17f)
Folder F3778:3286-3292
(1) Legislation Committees: Assembly Natural Resources and Conservation, Transportation and Commerce, Transportation; Joint-Committee
on Open Space Lands; miscellaneous Senate committees
Physical Description:
(7f)
Folder F3778:3293-3302
(2) Special Subject Files: air space utilization; gas tax subventions; Mammoth Lakes-billboard regulations; Minaret Summit
highway proposal; Mulholland Drive development; Rapid transit development and financing for BART and Southern California.
Physical Description:
(10f)
Folder F3778:3303
(3) Agency and Other Legislative Proposals
Physical Description:
(1f)
Folder F3778:3304-3320
(4) Bill Files: SB 2-SB 1427, SCA 7, SCR 15-SCR 162, SJR 19, SR 31-SR 375.
Physical Description:
(17f)
Folder F3778:3321-3339
AB 2-AB 2539, ACA 58-ACA 69, ACR 17-ACR 194, AJR 12, AJR 59, HR 15-HR 426.
Physical Description:
(19f)
Folder F3778:3340
(2) Special Subject Files: agriculture gas tax refunds.
Physical Description:
(1f)
Folder F3778:3341
(3) Agency and Other Legislature Proposals
Physical Description:
(1f)
Folder F3778:3342-3356
(4) Bill Files: SB 4-SB 1411, SCA 5-SCA 14, SCR 2-SCR 90, SJR 8, SJR 9, SR 146-SR 363
Physical Description:
(15f)
Folder F3778:3357-3377
Preprint AB 8-AB 19, AB 1-AB 2528, ACA 8-ACA 66, ACR 4-ACR 188, AJR 4-AJR 42, HR 54-HR 235.
Physical Description:
(21f)
Folder F3778:3378-3384
(5) Federal Legislation: HR 135, Mass Transportation Financing Act; HR 6508 and HR 6509, California Disaster Relief Act, HR
11870, vehicle weight and width limitations; HR 14741, Federal Aid Highway Act; S 2425 National Transportation Act of 1969;
S 3619 Disaster Relief Act of 1970; AASHO 1969 correspondence.
Physical Description:
(7f)