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Title: Temple Street Cable Railway, Los Angeles
Creator: Hardesty & Armstrong
Date Created and/or Issued: 1891
Contributing Institution: Huntington Library
Collection: Photographs
Rights Information: For information on using Huntington Library materials, please see Reproductions of Huntington Library Holdings: https://www.huntington.org/library-rights-permissions
Description: Passengers on streetcars of the Temple Street Cable Railway, which says "Spring, Temple & City Limits" across top and "Temple St. Cable Ry." across the bottom, near downtown Los Angeles, California. The car is stopped in front of the powerhouse for the Temple Street Cable Railway located at the northwest corner of Temple Street and East Edgeware Road in Angelino Heights.
"Hardesty & Armstrong, Landscape Photographers, Los Angeles, Cal. 1891." --text, printed on card. Title devised by cataloger; date transcribed from item. Powerhouse location information supplied from metadata for similar image ("Temple St. cable car") in the Los Angeles Public Library Photograph Collection.
Type: Image
Format: image/jpeg
Extent: 1 photograph : print ; image 11.5 x 19.7 cm
Identifier: photCL_555
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15150coll2/id/20439
Subject: Cable cars (Streetcars)
Local transit
Trolley cars
Photographs. (aat)
Place: Los Angeles (Calif.)
Source: Photographs, Huntington Digital Library

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