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Title
Pacific Electric railroad track looking north toward Dominguez hill during a flood of the Los Angeles River, 1914
Contributor
Gillingham, Robert C
Date Created and/or Issued
1914-02-01
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 a Pacific Electric railroad track looking north toward Dominguez hill during a flood of the Los Angeles River, 1914. Water reaches nearly to the tracks of the PE bridge that can be seen cutting from the right to the left distance, where the silhouettes of several men can be seen. Utility poles flank the tracks to the right.
Photoprint reads: "Harry Merrick Photography. 1901 W. Anaheim -- Long Beach, Calif. Phone Hemlock 6-3291".
Type
image
Format
1 photograph : photonegative, b&w
10 x 13 cm.
negatives (photographic)
photographs
Identifier
chs-m2262
USC-0-1-1-2323 [Legacy record ID]
CHS-12728
http://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m2262
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/CHS-12728.jpg
Subject
Floods
Street-railroads
Bridges
Rivers
Los Angeles--Floods--1914, 1916
Railroad features
Time Period
1914-02-01
Place
California
Los Angeles
USA
mountains: Dominguez Hill
Source
12728 [Accession number]
CHS-12728 [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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