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Title
First Automobile in Los Angeles
Alternative Title
Security Pacific National Bank Photo Collection
Date Created and/or Issued
1897
Contributing Institution
Los Angeles Public Library
Collection
Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection
Rights Information
Images available for reproduction and use. Please see the Ordering & Use page at http://tessa.lapl.org/OrderingUse.html for additional information.
Description
First automobile in Los Angeles, built by J. Philip Erie, the driver, a resident of Los Angeles at the time. Los Angeles Mayor William H. Workman is in the rear seat.
Type
image
Format
1 photograph :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier
00020543
Security Pacific National Bank Collection
Transportation-Automobiles.; N-001-852 8x10
CARL0000024486
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/90701
Subject
Workman, William Henry,--1839-1918
Automobiles--California--Los Angeles
Mayors--California--Los Angeles
Group portraits
Portrait photographs
Time Period
1891-1900

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