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 Send requests to address or e-mail given USC Libraries Special Collections specol@usc.edu
Description
Photograph of streetcars and spectators on the First Street Bridge during the opening of the cable railway to Boyle Heights, Los Angeles, August 1, 1889. Two men in the foreground are pictured walking away on the plank bridge from the two streetcars behind them. Passengers are packed into the American-flag decorated cars, while others sit on and along a chain link fence to the left. A horse-drawn carriage makes its way down the bridge towards the camera in the right background. Horse droppings can be seen to the left on the bridge. A caption below the image identifies the cause for celebration.
Type
image
Format
2 photographs : photonegative, photoprint, b&w 10 x 13 cm., 21 x 26 cm. negatives (photographic) photographic prints photographs
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