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Title
New Red Cars for Los Angeles
Alternative Title
Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
Creator
Arrow Studio
Date Created and/or Issued
1939
Contributing Institution
Los Angeles Public Library
Collection
Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection
Rights Information
Images available for reproduction and use. Please see the Ordering & Use page at http://tessa.lapl.org/OrderingUse.html for additional information.
Description
Title supplied by cataloger.
Photograph caption reads: "The old red cars on Los Angeles streets will look like the car above, Pacific Electric officials said today in revealing details of their $5,000,000 improvement program. The cars will be painted with a 'streamline design' in red with orange trim and silver roof. Safety guards will replace the old fenders". Photograph dated: Dec. 8, 1939.; A Pacific Electric Red Car poses on its tracks in front of a row of bungalows. "Pay as you enter" is stenciled beside the double doors, center.
Type
image
Format
1 photographic print :b&w ;21 x 26 cm.
Photographic prints
Identifier
00076884
Herald Examiner Collection
HE box 2203.
CARL0000078733
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/24591
Subject
Pacific Electric Railway Company
Street-railroads--California--Los Angeles
Electric railroads--Cars--California--Los Angeles
Los Angeles Evening Herald and Express photographs
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs

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