BUILDING A GREAT MUSEUM FOR THE SAN FERNANDO VALLEY
Several volunteers from California State University Northridge will be working in the next few weeks on projects for The Museum of the San Fernando Valley. To those who are working on The Museum's archives, I thought it might be useful to demonstrate through this recent donation how our present record keeping is done. This will also show followers of this blog a important addition to our collection as well as our record keeping process.
Los Angeles to the San Fernando Valley - dashboard map - Gift to The Museum of the San Fernando Valley from Gary Fredburg 2014. (click on this image to enlarge it.)
(first cross reference entry)
214-001-6440 - Auto Club Map - LA to San Fernando Valley - map
214 = month and year of entry/donation
001 = donor code number (in this case Gary Fredurg)
6440 = number assigned to artifact / document
(detailed reference entry)
Auto Club Map of San Fernando Valley
artifact number: 214-001-6440
condition: minor acid paper aging - very good - in plastic sheet
donor: Gary Fredburg
location: Jerry Fecht's studio - boxed
scanned / used on blog: February 2014 - general interest / teaching tool
notes: Map shows very early Los Angeles and Glendale suburbs: Lankershim was name for North Hollywood until 1921, Marian was the name for Reseda until 1921, Universal City is shown as an extensive community along Ventura Boulevard, Zelzah is shown, Owensmouth is used instead of Canoga Park until 1931. Calabasas is shown at bottom left but not as a community. Chatsworth is called Chatsworth Park.
Reverse: "Official Hotels" include Elizabeth Hotel in Burbank, and Porter Hotel in San Fernando.
"Official Garages" San Fernando: Willis Rowe, Tucker's Ford Sa;es: Lankershim: Phelp's Motor Co., Burbank: O.C. Lane Garage, Loverjoy Garage, Nicholson's Garage Glendale: J & K Garage. Parker and White Auto Co., Chatsworth: Alamo Garage
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