Doheny Memorial Library, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0189 Public Domain. Release under the CC BY Attribution license--http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/--Credit both “University of Southern California. Libraries” and “California Historical Society” as the source. Digitally reproduced by the USC Digital Library; From the California Historical Society Collection at the University of Southern California Send requests to address or e-mail given USC Libraries Special Collections specol@usc.edu
Description
Photograph of the exterior of the Los Angeles and Independence Railroad Depot, San Pedro Street and Fourth Street, south of Fifth Street, before 1888. The wood Victorian building has two three-story square towers with wrought iron work at their apexes, with dormer windows in the roofs of the towers and small decorative balconies on the Second-story windows. A statue of a sphinx stands guard at the right of several doors at the head of a wide set of stairs on the left side of the building. A group of about six people are gathered on the platform near the end of a rail car (one is on the car) on the right side of the building. The railroad line, which extended to Santa Monica, was taken over by Southern Pacific, and the station was destroyed by fire in November, 1888. Streetscape. Horizontal photography.
Type
image
Format
1 photograph : photonegative, b&w 21 x 26 cm. negatives (photographic) photographs
Los Angeles--Architecture--Commercial--Train stations Railroads--Stations Train Station Los Angeles and Independence Railroad R.R. Depot Transportation Railroad features
Place
-118.24212,34.04606 -118.24185,34.04578 -118.24208,34.0456 -118.24231,34.04577 California Downtown Los Angeles Los Angeles Independence Railroad Depot San Pedro Street & 4th Street USA before 1888
Source
1-119-9 [Microfiche number] 3213 [Accession number] CHS-3213; S-4638 [Call number] California Historical Society [Contributing entity]
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