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 Send requests to address or e-mail given USC Libraries Special Collections specol@usc.edu
Description
Photograph of a view of Second Street looking east from Boylston Street, showing the Pacific Electric Railroad Company power house, Los Angeles, ca.1900. A man with a horse-drawn tanker wagon is making his way away from the camera along the unpaved road, with the Pacific Electric power house behind a picket fence to his left. The main building, seen in the background, is made of brick, although several auxiliary buildings have clapboard veneers. Dual smokestacks can be seen above them to the left. Between 1896 and 1906 the power house was in use as Edison Electric Company Steam Plant #1.
Type
image
Format
2 photographs : photonegative, photoprint, b&w 21 x 26 cm. negatives (photographic) photographic prints photographs
Pacific Electric Company Edison Electric Company Street-railroads Power supply Buildings Steam Transportation--Rail--Street Railroads--General (Buildings) Roadways
Time Period
circa 1900
Place
2nd Street & Boylston Street California Los Angeles USA
Source
1-120-64 [Microfiche number] 7175 [Accession number] CHS-7175 [Call number] California Historical Society [Contributing entity]
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