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Title
Exterior view of the car barn for the Second Street Cable Car system in Los Angeles, showing a group of uniformed conductors, ca.1890
Date Created and/or Issued
circa 1890
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 exterior view of the car barn for the Second Street Cable Car system in Los Angeles, showing a group of uniformed conductors, ca.1890.The car barn, a single-story clapboard building constructed in the Second Empire style of architecture, fills the foreground of the image. A sign near its decorated roofline reads "Second Street Cable R.R.". A group of uniformed conductors stand to the left of center, in front of the building, leaning on a wheeled apparatus.
Type
image
Format
2 photographs : photonegative, photoprint, b&w
21 x 26 cm.
negatives (photographic)
photographic prints
photographs
Identifier
chs-m12634
USC-0-1-1-12788 [Legacy record ID]
CHS-31240
http://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m12634
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/CHS-31240.jpg
Subject
Second Street Cable Railroad
Street-railroads
Buildings
Terminals (Transportation)
Offices
Transportation--Rail--Street Railroads--General (Buildings)
Time Period
circa 1890
Place
California
Los Angeles
USA
Source
1-120- [Microfiche number]
31240 [Accession number]
CHS-31240 [Call number]
California Historical Society [Contributing entity]

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