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Title: Trolley car at Granite Gate
Alternative Title: Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
Date Created and/or Issued: 1928
Contributing Institution: Los Angeles Public Library
Collection: Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection
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Description: Title supplied by cataloger.; "Passing through 'Granite Gate', near Mt. Lowe Tavern" written on verso of image.
The trolley car rounds the curve as it enters the snowy scene at Granite Gate, a point along the Mount Lowe Railway in the San Gabriel Mountains. Photo dated: January 24, 1928.; T.S.C. Lowe founded the Mount Lowe project and Mount Lowe Railway. In 1892, Oak Mountain, a 6,100 foot peak behind Echo Mountain, was renamed Mount Lowe in his honor. The rail system was engineered by David J. Macpherson and completed in 1893.
Type: Image
Format: 1 photographic print :b&w ;12 x 18 cm.
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00074458
Herald Examiner Collection
HE box 1823.; HE-002-688 4x5
CARL0000078415
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/24296
Subject: Mount Lowe Railway
Electric railroads--California--Lowe, Mount (Los Angeles County)
Cable cars (Streetcars)--California--Lowe, Mount (Los Angeles County)
Snow
Lowe, Mount (Los Angeles County, Calif.)
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs

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