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Title
Los Angeles' first electric railroad from Plaza to Pico Heights, 1887
Creator
Pierce, C.C. (Charles C.), 1861-1946
Date Created and/or Issued
1887
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 an open-air car on the first electric railroad in Los Angeles from the Plaza to Pico Heights in 1887. Many men in fine suits and just several women in fine dresses pose in front of an open-air rail car at center. The cars whose sides read "Plaza, Pico Street, Pico Heights" are attached to wires that run above it. The ground around them is dusty and spotted with weeds.
Type
image
Format
1 photograph : photoprint, b&w
21 x 26 cm.
photographic prints
photographs
Identifier
chs-m12448
USC-1-1-1-12603 [Legacy record ID]
CHS-7987B
http://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m12448
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/CHS-7987B.jpg
Subject
Street-railroads
Electric railroads
Transportation--Street Railroads--General
Railroad features
Time Period
1887
Place
California
Los Angeles
USA
Source
7987B [Accession number]
CHS-7987B [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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