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Title
View of Court Flight, "The Shortest Railway in the World", showing a sandwich shop, ca.1930
Creator
Pluckett, Bob
Date Created and/or Issued
circa 1930
Publication Information
University of Southern California. Libraries
Contributing Institution
California Historical Society
University of Southern California Digital Library
Collection
California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960
Rights Information
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
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Description
Photograph of a view of Court Flight, "The Shortest Railway in the World", showing a sandwich shop, ca.1930. The tracks for Court Flight climb a steep hill in the center of the image. At their base is a "Sandwich Shop" with a striped awning, while at the summit is a two-story building. A tall staircase runs parallel to the tracks at their right. The edges of commercial buildings can be seen at both the left and right edges of the image. Three pedestrians stand on the paved sidewalk in front of the sandwich shop, behind the street and streetcar tracks that cross the foreground.
Type
image
Format
2 photographs : photonegative, photoprint, b&w
26 x 21 cm.
negatives (photographic)
photographic prints
photographs
Identifier
chs-m8486
USC-1-1-1-8621 [Legacy record ID]
CHS-31279
http://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m8486
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/CHS-31279.jpg
Subject
Court Flight
Sandwich shop
Transportation--Rail--Street Railroads--Incline
Transportation
Transportation features
Time Period
circa 1930
Place
California
Los Angeles
Third Street
Hill Street
USA
Source
1-120- [Microfiche number]
31279 [Accession number]
CHS-31279 [Call number]
California Historical Society [Contributing entity]
Relation
California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960
Title Insurance and Trust, and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection, 1860-1960
USC
chs-m265

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