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Title: Traveling in heavy snow
Alternative Title: Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
Date Created and/or Issued: 1933
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: Title supplied by cataloger.; "Mt. Lowe snow scene" written on verso of image.
Men in coats and hats traveling on a Pacific Electric trolley on the Mount Lowe Railway in the San Gabriel Mountains. Photo dated: January 25, 1933.; T.S.C. Lowe founded the Mount Lowe project and Mount Lowe Railway. In 1892, Oak Mountain, a 6,100 foot peak behind Echo Mountain, was renamed Mount Lowe in his honor. The rail system was engineered by David J. Macpherson and completed in 1893.
Type: Image
Format: 1 photographic print :b&w ;21 x 26 cm.
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00074455
Herald Examiner Collection
HE box 1823.
CARL0000078421
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/24299
Subject: Mount Lowe Railway
Pacific Electric Railway Company
Electric railroads--California--Lowe, Mount (Los Angeles County)
Cable cars (Streetcars)--California--Lowe, Mount (Los Angeles County)
Snow
Snowballs
Lowe, Mount (Los Angeles County, Calif.)
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs

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