James B. Case slides of highway construction in California

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Title: James B. Case slides of highway construction in California
Creator: Case, James B.
Date: 1949-1953
Identifier or Call Number: PC-039
Scope and contents: Collection comprises 102 35 mm color Kodachrome transparency slides documenting construction of highways in Los Angeles, Orick, and San Francisco, California; training at Fort Ord army base; and a Case family vacation and recreation in Orick, California taken by James B. Case between 1949 and 1953. Case worked for the California Department of Transportation when taking many of these photographs. The bulk of the collection shows the construction and completion of the Hollywood Freeway and the Harbor Freeway in Los Angeles and the Bayshore Freeway in the San Francisco Bay Area. A selection of images depict the final stages of construction of the Four Level Interchange in Los Angeles. This interchange connects the Hollywood Freeway, Harbor Freeway, Santa Ana Freeway, and Arroyo Seco Parkway, and is the first four level interchange to be constructed in the world.
Biographical or Historical Information: James B. Case trained at Fort Ord army base in Monterey County, California in the early 1950s. Between 1949 and 1953 he worked for the California Department of Transportation, constructing and photographing highways throughout California.
Finding Aid: https://oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/c8s1887g/

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Title: Hollywood Freeway four level interchange
Description: Identification number assigned by photographer: HL-6.
Title from slide mount: Hollywood Freeway Four Level Interchange.
Slide is Kodachrome transparency.
James B. Case trained at Fort Ord army base in Monterey County, California in the early 1950s. Between 1949 and 1953 he worke...

Title: Four-level intersection Hollywood Freeway
Description: Identification number assigned by photographer: HL-8.
Title from slide mount: Four-Level Intersection Hollywood Freeway.
Slide is Kodachrome transparency.
Officially known as the Bill Keene Memorial Interchange, it is the first stacked interchange constructed in the world.

Title: Hollywood Freeway four-level interchange
Description: Identification number assigned by photographer: HL-9.
Title from slide mount: Hollywood Freeway Four-Level Interchange.
Slide is Kodachrome transparency.
Officially known as the Bill Keene Memorial Interchange, it is the first stacked interchange constructed in the world.

Title: Hollywood Freeway four-level interchange
Description: Identification number assigned by photographer: HL-10.
Title from slide mount: Hollywood Freeway Four-Level Interchange.
Slide is Kodachrome transparency.
Officially known as the Bill Keene Memorial Interchange, it is the first stacked interchange constructed in the world.

Title: Harbor Freeway
Description: Title from slide mount: Harbor Freeway.
Slide is Kodachrome transparency.
James B. Case trained at Fort Ord army base in Monterey County, California in the early 1950s. Between 1949 and 1953 he worke...

Title: Harbor Freeway
Description: Title from slide mount: Harbor Freeway.
Slide is Kodachrome transparency.
James B. Case trained at Fort Ord army base in Monterey County, California in the early 1950s. Between 1949 and 1953 he worke...

Title: Harbor Freeway
Description: Title from slide mount: Harbor Freeway.
Slide is Kodachrome transparency.
James B. Case trained at Fort Ord army base in Monterey County, California in the early 1950s. Between 1949 and 1953 he worke...

Title: Harbor Freeway
Description: Title from slide mount: Harbor Freeway.
Slide is Kodachrome transparency.
James B. Case trained at Fort Ord army base in Monterey County, California in the early 1950s. Between 1949 and 1953 he worke...

Title: Harbor Freeway
Description: Title from slide mount: Harbor Freeway.
Slide is Kodachrome transparency.
James B. Case trained at Fort Ord army base in Monterey County, California in the early 1950s. Between 1949 and 1953 he worke...

Title: Overpass from surface street, probably the Harbor Freeway
Description: Title supplied by cataloger.
Slide has been remounted; original title and date have been lost.
James B. Case trained at Fort Ord army base in Monterey County, California in the early 1950s. Between 1949 and 1953 he worke...

Title: Four level interchange of the Hollywood Freeway, Santa An...
Description: Title supplied by cataloger.
Slide has been remounted; original title and date have been lost.
Officially known as the Bill Keene Memorial Interchange, it is the first stacked interchange constructed in the world.

Title: Harbor Freeway underpass at Second Street
Description: Title supplied by cataloger.
Slide has been remounted; original title and date have been lost.
James B. Case trained at Fort Ord army base in Monterey County, California in the early 1950s. Between 1949 and 1953 he worke...

Title: Four level interchange of the Hollywood Freeway, Santa An...
Description: Title supplied by cataloger.
Slide has been remounted; original title and date have been lost.
Officially known as the Bill Keene Memorial Interchange, it is the first stacked interchange constructed in the world.

Title: Four level interchange of the Hollywood Freeway, Santa An...
Description: Title supplied by cataloger.
Slide has been remounted; original title and date have been lost.
Officially known as the Bill Keene Memorial Interchange, it is the first stacked interchange constructed in the world.

Title: Harbor Freeway
Description: Title supplied by cataloger.
Slide has been remounted; original title and date have been lost.
James B. Case trained at Fort Ord army base in Monterey County, California in the early 1950s. Between 1949 and 1953 he worke...

Title: North and south lanes of the Harbor Freeway, near Grand A...
Description: Title supplied by cataloger.
Slide has been remounted; original title and date have been lost.
James B. Case trained at Fort Ord army base in Monterey County, California in the early 1950s. Between 1949 and 1953 he worke...

Title: Four level interchange of the Hollywood Freeway, Santa An...
Description: Title supplied by cataloger.
Slide has been remounted; original title and date have been lost.
Officially known as the Bill Keene Memorial Interchange, it is the first stacked interchange constructed in the world.

Title: Construction of freeway, probably the Harbor Freeway
Description: Title supplied by cataloger.
Slide has been remounted; original title and date have been lost.
James B. Case trained at Fort Ord army base in Monterey County, California in the early 1950s. Between 1949 and 1953 he worke...