Papers, 1929-1997.

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Papers, 1929-1997.

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Papers include highway engineering reports, hearings on the development of a national interstate highway program, speeches, publications, correspondence, maps, photographs, research notes and manuscript drafts for a three-year study Turner and Harmer E. Davis conducted for the International Road Federation, entitled A Comparative Analysis of Urban Transportation Requirements (1977). Also present are materials about the Highway Users Federation and the American Association of State Highway Officials, as well as the history of the interstate highway. The most extensive project is a study by the Public Works Historical Society, commissioned by the American Public Works Association and the American Association of State Highway Transportation Officials.

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Texas A&M University, Evans Library & Annex; Main campus library complex

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Texas A&M University, Evans Library & Annex; Main campus library complex

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