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Title
Pico Heights electric car, the first in Los Angeles, ca.1887
Creator
Pierce, C.C. (Charles C.), 1861-1946
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 a Pico Heights electric car, the first in Los Angeles, ca.1887. Sixteen people stand in or around the car. Three people, one of whom is the engineer, attend the operator's car in front, while the rest congregate around the passenger car trailing it to the left. A sign spans the top of the cable car reading: "Plaza, Pico Street, Pico Heights".
Type
image
Format
2 photographs : photonegative, photoprint, b&w
21 x 26 cm.
negatives (photographic)
photographic prints
photographs
Identifier
chs-m12474
USC-1-1-1-12629 [Legacy record ID]
CHS-7120
http://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m12474
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/CHS-7120.jpg
Subject
Street-railroads
Electric railroads
Transportation--Street Railroads--General
Transportation--Rail--Street Railroads--Electric Cars #2
Transportation features
Time Period
circa 1887
Place
California
Los Angeles
Pico Heights
USA
Source
7120 [Accession number]
CHS-7120 [Call number]
California Historical Society [Contributing entity]
isla id: 1-120-62 [Identifying number]
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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