Finding Aid for the Agib Stewart Monroe Papers, ca. 1913-1959
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Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575
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The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
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Finding Aid for the Agib Stewart Monroe Papers, ca. 1913-1959
Collection number: 777
UCLA Library, Department of Special Collections
Manuscripts Division
Los Angeles, CA
Contact Information
- Manuscripts Division
- UCLA Library, Department of Special Collections
- Room A1713, Charles E. Young Research Library
- Box 951575
- Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575
- Telephone: 310/825-4988 (10:00 a.m. - 4:45 p.m., Pacific
Time)
- Email: spec-coll@library.ucla.edu
- URL: http://www.library.ucla.edu/libraries/special/scweb/
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- Alight Tsai
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- Caroline Cubé
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- Josh Fiala, March 2003
© 2002 The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
Descriptive Summary
Title: Agib Stewart Monroe Papers,
Date (inclusive): ca. 1913-1959
Collection number: 777
Creator: Monroe, Agib Stewart, 1886-1959
Extent:
4 boxes (2.0 linear ft.)
Repository:
University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections.
Los Angeles, California 90095-1575
Abstract: Agib Stewart Monroe (1886-1959) was a surveyor with the California State Highway Commission (1913), an assistant city engineer
in San Diego after World War I, a consulting engineer in the office of attorney Arthur M. Ellis (1922-32), and from 1932-55,
had his own office in Los Angeles. The collection consists of correspondence, court transcripts, legal notes, notebooks, stock
certificates, maps, blueprints, books, and ephemera.
Physical location: Stored off-site at SRLF. Advance notice is required for access to the collection. Please contact the UCLA Library, Department
of Special Collections Reference Desk for paging information.
Language:
English.
Administrative Information
Restrictions on Use and Reproduction
Property rights to the physical object belong to the UCLA Library, Department of Special Collections. Literary rights, including
copyright, are retained by the creators and their heirs. It is the responsibility of the researcher to determine who holds
the copyright and pursue the
copyright owner or his or her heir for permission to publish where The UC Regents do not hold the copyright.
Restrictions on Access
COLLECTION STORED OFF-SITE AT SRLF: Advance notice required for access.
Additional Physical Form Available
A copy of the original version of this online finding aid is available at the UCLA Department of Special Collections for in-house
consultation and may be obtained for a fee. Please contact:
- Public Services Division
- UCLA Library, Department of Special Collections
- Room A1713, Charles E. Young Research Library
- Box 951575
- Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575
- Telephone: 310/825-4988 (10:00 a.m. - 4:45 p.m., Pacific
Time)
- Email: spec-coll@library.ucla.edu
Provenance/Source of Acquisition
Gift of Mrs. A. Stewart Monroe, 1961.
Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], Agib Stewart Monroe Papers (Collection 777). Department of Special Collections, Charles E. Young
Research Library, University of California, Los Angeles.
Biography
Monroe was born on January 16, 1886 in Pennsylvania; with no formal training except by correspondence school courses, he became
a civil engineer; came to California in 1907; became a surveyor with the State Highway Commission in 1913; served as assistant
city engineer in San Diego after World War I; consulting engineer in the office of attorney Arthur M. Ellis (1922-32), and
from 1932-55, had his own office in Los Angeles; he died September 22, 1959 in San Marino, California.
Scope and Content
Collection consists of correspondence, court transcripts, legal notes, notebooks, stock certificates, maps, blueprints, books,
and ephemera. Includes papers relating to the Investigation Act of 1931.
Indexing Terms
The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the library's online public access catalog.
Monroe, Agib Stewart, 1886-1959--Archives.
Civil engineers--California, Southern--Archival resources.
Consulting engineers--California--Los Angeles--Archival resources.
Container List
Box 1
General Correspondence, Sanitation District's Forms, Standard Plans Book of the California Highway Commission, Book of uses
and definitions of legal terms, copy of the application of the City of Monterey Park (California) to the State Advisory Board
for Federal Emergency Funds for a sewer, and notebook.
Box 2
Books relating to charters of various cities, amendments, ordinances, specifications of road construction, and other important
statutes.
Box 3
Stock certificates, maps, blueprints, papers relating to the Investigation Act of 1931, and pictures, ephemera.
1931 and v.d.
Box 4
Legal notes, court transcripts, and paper bound books.
