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Title
Pacific Electric Railway car at Santa Monica station
Date Created and/or Issued
1952
Contributing Institution
Huntington Library
Collection
Photographs
Rights Information
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Description
Pacific Electric Railway streetcar no. 107 at the Santa Monica station on Ocean Avenue in Santa Monica. The sign at the station says "Pacific Electric ticket office" and there is a sign on the building that says "Trolley Cafe." The sign across the top of the streetcar says "Santa Monica."
"1952 Pacific Electric at Santa Monica station"--text, handwritten in pencil on housing. Title and date devised by cataloger based on notes on housing. The Pacific Electric Railway system of electric streetcars and rail was also known as the Red Car system.
Type
Image
Format
image/jpeg
Extent
1 photograph : color transparency ; film size 35m (slide format)
Identifier
photCL_555_01_346
486874
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15150coll2/id/20587
Subject
Pacific Electric Railway Company
Electric railroads--Cars
Local transit
Railroad stations
Street-railroads
Photographs. (aat)
Place
Santa Monica (Calif.)
Source
Photographs, Huntington Digital Library

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