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Title
Open-air motor bus with people sitting and standing on top, ca.1900
Date Created and/or Issued
circa 1900
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 motor bus with people sitting and standing on top, ca.1900. Approximately twenty-six passengers can be seen in a roofless motorbus, a man in a conductor's uniform standing at the front with a megaphone in his hands. A rocky terrain fills the background.
Type
image
Format
1 photograph : photoprint, b&w
9 x 14 cm.
photographic prints
photographs
Identifier
chs-m11749
USC-0-1-1-11900 [Legacy record ID]
CHS-43581
http://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m11749
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/CHS-43581.jpg
Subject
Buses
Transportation--Automobiles--Buses
Transportation features
Time Period
circa 1900
Place
California
Los Angeles
USA
Source
43581 [Accession number]
85-6-27 [Microfiche number]
CHS-43581 [Call number]
California Historical Society [Contributing entity]
Relation
California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960
USC
chs-m15009
Provenance
Deland Collection

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