Route 66 Collection, 1997-2017

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Summary

Title:
Route 66 Collection
Dates:
1997-2017
Creators:
Woodcock, Michael
Abstract:
Extent:
6 boxes
Language:
Preferred citation:

Route 66 Collection. Claremont Colleges, Pitzer College Archives

Background

Scope and content:

This collection contains materials relating to the Pitzer College course Environmental Studies 65: Off the Mother Road. Students examined the history, art, and symbolic meaning of highway travel with Route 66 as case study, culminating in a 2,200-mile plus road trip. This collection represents artifacts and ephemera collected during that class and field trip, predominantly novelty items and souvenirs relating to Route 66: postcards, books, refrigerator magnets, pins, iron-on patches, etc.

Biographical / historical:

Michael Woodcock was born in Connecticut on October 25, 1951. In 1984 he earned an MFA in drawing and painting from Claremont Graduate School. He joined Pitzer College’s faculty in 1989 and became known for the course Environmental Studies 65: Off the Mother Road, which examined the history, art, and symbolic meaning of highway travel and Route 66. His paintings and lithographs have been collected by the Getty Museum, Los Angeles Public Library, and Yale University. He died on March 31, 2013.

About this collection guide

Collection Guide Author:
Finding aid created by Claremont Colleges, Pitzer College Archives staff.
Date Prepared:
1997-2017
Date Encoded:
This finding aid was produced using Record Express for OAC5 on April 17, 2025, 11:28 a.m.

Access and use

Restrictions:

Collection open for research.

Terms of access:

All requests for permission to reproduce or to publish must be submitted in writing to the Pitzer College Archives.

Preferred citation:

Route 66 Collection. Claremont Colleges, Pitzer College Archives

Location of this collection:
1050 North Mills Ave., Box A-95
Claremont, CA 91711, US
Contact:
(909) 607-0670
archive@pitzer.edu
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