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Title
Two street car operators on the South Loop Pacific Electric Railway on Altadena Drive, 1909
Creator
Whitmore, Robert S
Date Created and/or Issued
1909-06-01
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 two street car operators on the South Loop Pacific Electric Railway on Altadena Drive, 1909. At center, a tall, portly man and a shorter, thinner man stand at the entrance to Pacific Electric street car number 856. At right, the thinner man is equipped with a change belt. Behind the larger man, a sign on the car reads "Vesuviu[s]. Elks Big Sh[...]".
Type
image
Format
1 photograph : photoprint, b&w
21 x 26 cm.
photographic prints
photographs
Identifier
chs-m12432
USC-0-1-1-12587 [Legacy record ID]
CHS-33087
http://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m12432
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/CHS-33087.jpg
Subject
Pacific Electric Railway
Street-railroads
Electric railroads
Transportation--Rail--Street Railroads--Electric Cars #2
Transportation features
Time Period
1909-06-01
Place
Altadena Drive
Altadena
California
Los Angeles
USA
Source
33087 [Accession number]
CHS-33087 [Call number]
California Historical Society [Contributing entity]

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