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Description
Photograph of a trolley in front of the Florence Hotel in San Diego, ca.1888. There are three buildings that make up the hotel all of them are long rectangular buildings with white wooden siding and flat roofs. The small trolley is in the foreground on a dirt road and there are several people inside of it. A sign on the front of the trolley reads "P.C.S.S. Wharf & University Heights". "Note the Electric Rapid Transit Company car has trolley pull on the roof. The wire being hooked from the car roof to the trolley wire". Photoprint reads: "San Diego Rapid Transit Electric Co. has no trolly pole on roof, the wire being looped from the car roof to the trolley wire".
Type
image
Format
2 photographs : photonegative, photoprint, b&w 21 x 26 cm. negatives (photographic) photographic prints photographs
Florence Hotel San Diego County--San Diego--Architecture Transportation--Street Railroads--General--Outside L.A. County Views Hotels, taverns, etc Railroads Electric railroads Buildings
Time Period
circa 1888
Place
4th Street & Fir Street California San Diego USA
Source
1-120-83 [Microfiche number] 10127 [Accession number] CHS-10127 [Call number] California Historical Society [Contributing entity]
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