What better region of the country to provide documentation on the history of the automobile and transportation than Southern California? Digitized by USC (University of Southern California), the Automobile Club's archive consists of roughly 1,200 items and includes photographs, engineering notebooks, and maps that illustrate the development of major Southern California transportation routes. Materials in the collection can be browsed or searched, and there's also a carousel timeline to explore and retrieve images by date, such as a 1939 photograph of a drive-in restaurant on Wilshire Boulevard in Los Angeles. Users will also find some suggested topics, such as maps, engineering notebooks, freeway and road construction, Cahuenga Pass, Arroyo Seco, and the Santa Monica Freeway. Following the last topic provides eight views of this famous freeway under construction in 1958.