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Title
San Diego's first streetcar, 1886
Date Created and/or Issued
1886
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 San Diego's first streetcar, 1886. The car is facing to the left of the image and is being pulled by two matching gray horses. Controlling the horses is a man in a dark suit walking in front of the car itself. In the boxy rectangular car are two people, one in the front and one in the back. The number 13 is painted in the middle of the side of the streetcar.
Type
image
Format
1 photograph : photonegative, b&w
21 x 26 cm.
negatives (photographic)
photographs
Identifier
chs-m8769
USC-1-1-1-8902 [Legacy record ID]
CHS-10146
http://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m8769
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/CHS-10146.jpg
Subject
Railroads, Cable
San Diego County--San Diego--Street scenes--Transportation
Transportation features
Time Period
1886
Place
California
San Diego
USA
Source
1-46- [Microfiche number]
10146 [Accession number]
CHS-10146 [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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