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Title
Los Angeles City Electric Railroad car at the Marlborough School at 23rd Street and Scarff Street, ca.1894
Date Created and/or Issued
1889/1899
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 Los Angeles City Electric Railroad car at the Marlborough School at 23rd Street and Scarff Street, ca.1894. One of two conductors stands at center in front of the car, while the second is positioned on the running boards to the left, next to a seated woman. More passengers, two women and a little girl, are picture on the cars open-air bench to the right. Three out of the five shades are pulled down at center in the covered cabin of the streetcar. The roof of a building can be seen behind the trees in the background.
Type
image
Format
1 photograph : transparency, b&w
21 x 26 cm.
transparencies
photographs
Identifier
chs-m18107 [Legacy record ID]
CHS-7985
http://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m18107
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/CHS-7985.jpg
Subject
Marlborough School for Girls
Los Angeles Electric Railway Company
Schools
Girls
Street-railroads
Electric railroads
Transportation features
Time Period
1889/1899
Place
California
Los Angeles
Twenty-third Street & Scarff Street
USA
Source
1-120-72 [Microfiche number]
7985 [Accession number]
CHS-7985 [Call number]
California Historical Society [Contributing entity]

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