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Title
Mount Lowe Incline Railway and passengers, California, ca.1901
Creator
Pierce, C.C. (Charles C.), 1861-1946
Date Created and/or Issued
circa 1901
Publication Information
University of Southern California. Libraries
Contributing Institution
California Historical Society
University of Southern California Digital Library
Collection
California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960
Rights Information
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
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Description
Photograph of Mount Lowe Incline Railway and passengers, California, ca.1901. At the base of the incline is an open air cable car with about eight passengers. Next to the incline at the station is a an electric railcar. Flights of stairs flank the base of the incline rails. Several men are seen posing casually around the railway car. The metal tracks of the railway car are positioned against the mountain at a steep angle and are visible up to the peak of the mountain.
Type
image
Format
1 photograph : photoprint, glass photonegative, b&w
25 x 20 cm., 22 x 17 cm.
glass plate negatives
photographic prints
photographs
Identifier
chs-m5181
USC-1-1-1-5283 [Legacy record ID]
CHS-304
http://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m5181
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/CHS-304.jpg
Subject
Los Angeles County--Altadena--Mt. Lowe
Mountains
Railroads, Cable
Railroad features
Time Period
circa 1901
Place
Altadena
California
Los Angeles
USA
mountains: Mount Lowe
Source
1-38-24 [Microfiche number]
304 [Accession number]
CHS-304 [Call number]
California Historical Society [Contributing entity]
Relation
California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960
Title Insurance and Trust, and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection, 1860-1960
USC
chs-m265

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