Box 8
Container
Contains 1 Result:
New Mexico highway history, notes for Kammer Route 66 research, copies from New Mexico Highway Journal, State Highway Commission meetings, Tourist Bureau, etc. Construction, roadside improvements, historical markers, new state funding, New Deal projects, Federal defense highway military funding, war was end of road projects, land for military bombing ranges, truck inventory for war report, priority travel for military, guarding local bridges, tire shortages, gasoline rationing. Traffic census, state historical markers, marking roads, painting center lane of highways, speed limit, improved ports of entry, border stations, courtesy and information centers, loss of tourist travel, post war planning and Federal funding, 1939-1945
File — Box: 8, Folder: 53
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:
1939-1945