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Title
A. B. Cass
Alternative Title
Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
Date Created and/or Issued
Circa 1900
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
Photograph was edited for publication purposes and has a small hole, a crease and a small tear on the right side.
A. B. Cass was a businessman who settled in Los Angeles in 1888. He was president of the Home Telephone Company, the first company to adopt the dial phone, and one of five stockholders of the Empire Construction Company of California. He died in Pasadena, California in 1926.
Photograph used for an article dated March 16, 1935; the caption reads "Protested telephone rates with forming of new company."
Type
Image
Format
1 photographic print :b&w ;19 x 13 cm.
Photographic prints
Identifier
00115899
Herald Examiner Collection
HE box 84
CARL0005343678
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/31962
Subject
Cass, Alonzo B
Home Telephone Company--Presidents
Executives--California--Los Angeles
Men--California--Los Angeles
Portrait photographs
Los Angeles Evening Herald and Express photographs
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs

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