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Title
Cable car on Downey Avenue, Los Angeles, ca.1887
Date Created and/or Issued
circa 1887
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 an open-air cable car (2 cars long), Downey Avenue (later North Broadway) and Avenue 20, Los Angeles, ca.1887. A group of about 50 people are clustered in and around the still cars. A brick building taller than one-story is visible behind at left. Other one-story buildings are visible behind at right.
Type
image
Format
3 photographs : photoprints, b&w
16 x 21 cm., 20 x 25 cm.
photographic prints
photographs
Identifier
chs-m175
USC-1-1-1-178
USC-1-1-1-12734 [Legacy record ID]
CHS-1570
http://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m175
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/CHS-1570.jpg
Subject
Los Angeles--Streets--Downey Avenue
Transportation--Rail--Street Railroads--Cable cars
Streets
Railroads, Cable
Street-railroads
Railroad features
Time Period
circa 1887
Place
California
Downey Avenue (North Broadway) & Avenue 20
Los Angeles
USA
Source
1-2-179; 1-120-2 [Microfiche number]
1570 [Accession number]
CHS-1570 [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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