Box 8
Container
Contains 1 Result:
New Mexico highway history, notes for Kammer research, copies from New Mexico Highway Journal, State Highway Commission meetings, reports, newspapers, etc. Construction projects, expenses, road classification types, surfaces, New Deal Federal funding, reduction in government aid, speed limits, traffic census. Port of entry laws, locations, expenses, revenues, problems, traffic trap, create welcome centers instead, independent illegal wildcat cars and buses. Complaints in 1937 of mistreatment of travelers in New Mexico and Arizona, loss of visitors, profits. Bootlegging gasoline. Route 66, 1937 re-rounting, transcontinental roads, changes, impact, losses. Valencia County, Cubero, etc., 1936- 1938
File — Box: 8, Folder: 52
Scope and Content
From the Collection:
“Research and Nominations" documents the bulk of David Kammer’s professional work surveying cultural landscapes and preparing State and National Register nominations. Properties he examined range from vernacular buildings of northern New Mexico to road sections and commercial buildings along Route 66. Kammer conducted the first statewide study of New Deal public works architecture and landscape projects in New Mexico. He surveyed historic acequias, bridges, theaters, neon, neighborhoods,...
Dates:
1936- 1938