Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds. Mr. Allen has spent four days in Southland visiting local travel conditions. He brought with him from Chicago a report detailing a 20% increase in passenger traffic during the first two months of 1936. Photograph appears with the article, "Record Tourist Influx Foreseen By Rail Man," Los Angeles Times, 10 Mar 1935: 21. Allen poses at a desk holding a cigar in one hand. Text from newspaper caption: Leon M. Allen, Chicago, Rock Island Railway executive, who foresees a record tourist year ahead for Southern California. Handwritten on negative: Leon M. Allen Text from negative sleeve: ALLEN, LEON M. ROCK ISLAND R.R.
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image
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b&w nitrate negative
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uclamss_1429_11138 ark:/21198/zz002h93vq
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Subject
Business people--American--California--Los Angeles Tourism--California--Los Angeles Allen, Leon Menard, 1863-1936
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