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Title
The Wharf and Landing - Malibu Railroad
Creator
Hazard, George Washington, 1842-1914
Date Created and/or Issued
1903
1904
1905
1906
1907
1908
1909
1910
1911
1912
1913
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
View of a wharf and railroad tracks for the Rindge railway (incorporated as the Hueneme, Malibu and Port Los Angeles Railway) under construction in Malibu, California. Piles of lumber are stacked on the tracks and wharf.
Title transcribed from item. Date range approximated by cataloger based on the year that film negatives came into use and the latest known dates indicated for other Hazard images in the Huntington's collection. Note: this is a print - the original negative is not in this collection. This image was published in Young, Betty Lou. "Pacific Palisades: Where the Mountains Meet the Sea," p. 44 (Casa Vieja Press, 2001) with the caption: "The Rindge's Malibu wharf and a portion of the Malibu Railway, both under construction." (A reference to Malibu rancho owners Frederick and May Knight Rindge.) The Rindge Railroad was a 15-mile railroad, officially named the Hueneme, Malibu, and Port Los Angeles Railway, built by May Knight Rindge and Frederick Rindge in 1908.
Type
image
Format
image/jpeg
Extent
1 photograph : print ; sheet 9 x 9.5 cm
Identifier
photCL_555
487717
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15150coll2/id/17413
Subject
Building sites
Ocean
Railroads
Wharves
Photographs. (aat)
Place
Malibu (Calif.)
Source
Photographs, Huntington Digital Library

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