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GUIDE TO THE SAN DIEGO TRANSIT SYSTEM COLLECTION

COLLECTION NUMBER:
C123.

COLLECTION TITLE:
San Diego Transit System Collection.

CREATOR(S):
San Diego Transit System.

DATES OF MATERIAL:
1951-1954.

EXTENT:
53 negatives: safety film; 4 x 5 in.

LOCAL CONTROL NUMBERS:
Copy negatives: 94:19181/0-52.

REPOSITORY:
San Diego Historical Society
Booth Historical Photograph Archives
P.O. Box 81825
San Diego, CA 92138
1-619-232-6203

ACQUISITION INFORMATION:
Loan for copy from unknown source.

RESTRICTIONS:
Open for research.

COPYRIGHT:
For permission to reproduce or publish, contact the curator of the Booth Historical Photograph Archives of the San Diego Historical Society. Reproduction or publication of any part of this collection must include the following information next to the image(s) or in a special section of credits: San Diego Transit System Collection, San Diego Historical Society, Booth Historical Photograph Archives.

GENERAL NOTES:
Arranged by local control number. Related materials: San Diego Transit System Bus Drivers Photograph Album (PA163). Forms part of the San Diego Historical Society Negative Collection.

SCOPE AND CONTENT NOTE:
This collection documents activities of the San Diego Transit System in the early 1950s. It includes Jesse L. Haugh, president of San Diego Transit System; bus drivers, mechanics, and other employees; parked buses, buses being cleaned, and buses in operation on Broadway and other locations; students boarding buses; people riding buses and waiting at bus stops; and promotional photographs of Miss Downtown San Diego.

SUBJECTS INDEXED:
San Diego Transit System.
Buses.
Bus stops -- California -- San Diego.
Mass transit -- California -- San Diego.

CONTENTS LIST:
NegativeDescription
94:19181/0Miss Downtown San Diego boarding bus.
94:19181/1Bus driver.
94:19181/2Bus driver talking to police officer at downtown intersection.
94:19181/3SDTS employees working on bus at garage.
94:19181/4Employees working on bus.
94:19181/5Employees working on bus.
94:19181/6Employees working on bus.
94:19181/7Employees working on bus.
94:19181/8Buses parked in lot.
94:19181/9Buses parked in lot.
94:19181/10Mechanics working on bus engine.
94:19181/11Buses being cleaned.
94:19181/12Men watching buses being cleaned.
94:19181/13Men watching mechanics working on bus engine.
94:19181/14Group portrait of SDTS employees.
94:19181/15Group portrait of bus drivers.
94:19181/16Interior view of bus showing emergency door.
94:19181/17Group portrait of SDTS employees [at retirement party?]; sign in background reads: "Total ages 749 years, company service 249 years."
94:19181/18Group portrait of bus drivers.
94:19181/19Interior view of bus.
94:19181/20Woman paying bus fare.
94:19181/21SDTS employees standing outside bus in downtown San Diego.
94:19181/22SDTS employees posing in front of Park 'N Ride bus.
94:19181/23Bird's-eye view of buses on Broadway.
94:19181/24SDTS President Jesse L. Haugh (right) and Lauren Clapp looking at Park 'N Ride sign.
94:19181/25SDTS employees looking at "Sunshine Special" bus display.
94:19181/26Channel 8 TV cameraman filming people boarding bus downtown.
94:19181/27Bus passengers.
94:19181/28Ocean View bus.
94:19181/29Park 'N Ride buses.
94:19181/30East San Diego bus.
94:19181/31Parked bus.
94:19181/32Bus driver and Miss Downtown San Diego on bus.
94:19181/33Employee applying SDTS emblem to side of "Sunshine Special" bus display.
94:19181/34Miss Downtown San Diego posing with bus stop sign.
94:19181/35Miss Downtown San Diego posing with bus.
94:19181/36Lauren Clapp shaking hands with SDTS President Jesse L. Haugh (right).
94:19181/37SDTS employee standing outside La Jolla bus.
94:19181/38Students boarding bus.
94:19181/39Students on bus in front of Brooklyn School.
94:19181/40Ocean View Boulevard bus.
94:19181/41Students boarding buses.
94:19181/42Bird's-eye view of buses on Broadway in front of U.S. Grant Hotel.
94:19181/43SDTS employee at desk with adding machine.
94:19181/44Lauren Clapp at desk.
94:19181/45SDTS President Jesse L. Haugh at desk.
94:19181/46SDTS employee talking to woman at Horton Plaza.
94:19181/47SDTS employee, buses, and pedestrians downtown.
94:19181/48People waiting for buses downtown at 4th Avenue.
94:19181/49Sailor and two other men boarding Imperial Beach bus at 4th Avenue.
94:19181/50SDTS [management?] meeting.
94:19181/51Bird's-eye view of buses on Broadway in front of U.S. Grant Hotel.
94:19181/52View of 3rd Avenue, looking north.


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