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Title: Celebrating the arrival of the first train
Alternative Title: Security Pacific National Bank Photo Collection
Date Created and/or Issued: 1885
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: Many people attended the opening day of the Los Angeles and San Gabriel Railroad between Los Angeles and Pasadena. View shows the large pavilion erected on the central school park. The pavilion was built of rough lumber open on all sides and covered with freshly cuty cypress bough. Tables were erected under the pavilion for the dinner celebration held in Pasadena for the L.A. & S.G.V. Railroad's arrival of the first Santa Fe, September 16, 1885.
Type: image
Format: 1 photograph :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00032398
Security Pacific National Bank Collection
Transportation-Railroads-L.A. & San Gabriel Valley; N-001-698 8x10
CARL0000035424
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/96595
Subject: L.A. & S.G. Valley R.R. (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Arbors--California--Pasadena
Celebrations--California--Pasadena
Railroads--California, Southern
Women--California--Pasadena
Flower arrangements
Men--California--Pasadena
Group portraits
Portrait photographs
Pasadena (Calif.)
Time Period: 1881-1890

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