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Title
Map of the street railway lines of the Los Angeles street car system, December 1888
Date Created and/or Issued
1888-12
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 map of the street railway lines of the Los Angeles street car system, December 1888. A small web of solid and dotted lines is pictured, indicating the shape and direction of the various street car services in Los Angeles. To the bottom right, a key is shown that gives a different type of line for each of nine different street car lines and their milelages.
The streetcar lines represented are: L.A. Cable Railway, Pico Street Electric Railway, Temple Street Railway, Nickel Plate Railway, Main Street Railway, Mateo Street -- Santa Fe Depot, Vernon Railway, East Second Street Railway and the Second Street Cable Railway.
Type
image
Format
2 photographs : photonegative, photoprint, b&w
26 x 21 cm.
negatives (photographic)
photographic prints
photographs
maps
Identifier
chs-m13240
USC-0-1-1-13393 [Legacy record ID]
CHS-12859
http://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m13240
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/CHS-12859.jpg
Subject
Maps--Street railroads
Street-railroads
Railroad features
Time Period
1888-12
Place
California
Los Angeles
USA
Source
1-120-87 [Microfiche number]
12859 [Accession number]
CHS-12859 [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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