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Title: Cable lines used for Mount Lowe Railway
Alternative Title: Los Angeles Public Library Legacy Photo Collection
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: Shown is part of the cable machinery used to pull electric cable cars up and down the Incline portion of the Mount Lowe Railway. The cable system was designed by Andrew Smith Hallidie who had previously worked on the cable systems in San Francisco.
Type: Image
Format: 1 photograph :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00012688
Los Angeles Public Library Legacy Collection
C-4(317); A-008-739.2 4x5
CARL0000016968
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/87616
Subject: Mount Lowe Railway
Electric railroads--California--Lowe, Mount (Los Angeles County)
Cable cars (Streetcars)--California--Lowe, Mount (Los Angeles County)
Hallidie, Andrew Smith,1836-1900
Lowe, Mount (Los Angeles County, Calif.)

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