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The Dorothy Peyton Gray Transportation Library and Archive at the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority (LACMTA or Metro), 1874 to the present, is the largest transit operator research collection in the US. It is a partner of the National Transportation Library, a member of OCLC the world's largest library network (symbol = CRD), a member of the Western Transportation Knowledge Network, a member of the Getty/USC LAasSubject archives forum, and an affiliate of the National Academies Transportation Research Board. We are a strong advocate of using social media tools to connect communities and research. For more information, visit Metro Library & Archive Primary Resources or email us library@metro.net
If you need photos for commercial use, publication or broadcast, please contact us at library@metro.net for our Photo Release Form. All photos used should include credit to "Dorothy Peyton Gray Transportation Library and Archive at the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority", and if available, the photographer's name.
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- JoinedOctober 2008
- OccupationTransportation Library and Archive
- HometownLos Angeles, California
- Current cityLos Angeles, California
- CountryUSA
- Websitehttps://metroprimaryresources.info/
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It's really amazing to sift through this photo history of the glory days of urban mass transit before the petroleum lobby killed off funding for public transportation. Hopefully through studying records like the Metro Library has hosted here, we can get back to communal transit and provide cleaner, less congested meth… Read more
It's really amazing to sift through this photo history of the glory days of urban mass transit before the petroleum lobby killed off funding for public transportation. Hopefully through studying records like the Metro Library has hosted here, we can get back to communal transit and provide cleaner, less congested methods of sustainable metropolitan travel.
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