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Title
Railroad tracks and Long Wharf in distance along Santa Monica beach, California
Date Created and/or Issued
1905
1906
1907
1908
1909
1910
Contributing Institution
Huntington Library
Collection
Photographs
Rights Information
For information on using Huntington Library materials, please see Reproductions of Huntington Library Holdings: https://www.huntington.org/library-rights-permissions
Description
View looking down the California Incline road in Santa Monica, California, towards the beach and railroad tracks. The Southern Pacific Railroad ran steam engines along these tracks between Los Angeles and the Long Wharf (seen in distance at left). A few telephone poles can also be seen, as well as the wagon trail that ran alongside the railroad tracks.
"544"--text, handwritten on glass. Title devised by cataloger; date estimated by collection donor Ernest Marquez. This image appears to be related to photCL_555_05_131.
Type
Image
Format
image/jpeg
Extent
1 photograph : glass negative ; plate 20.3 x 25.4 cm
Identifier
photCL_555
487518
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15150coll2/id/16828
Subject
California Incline (Santa Monica, Calif.)
Long Wharf (Santa Monica, Calif.)
Beaches
Cliffs
Dirt roads
Railroad tracks
Wharves
Photographs. (aat)
Glass plate negatives. (aat)
Place
Santa Monica (Calif.)
Source
Photographs, Huntington Digital Library

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