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Title
Pacific Electric Railway car on Citrus Avenue in Covina, ca.1907
Date Created and/or Issued
circa 1907
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 Railway car on Citrus Avenue in Covina, ca.1907. The streetcar is at center and is a dark vehicle with glass windows on the front and a sign that says "Covina Line" on top. A uniformed man is standing in the car, while another is standing near the entrance at center. There are two sets of tracks on the unpaved street, and a line of utility poles is visible at left. At right, a row of eucalyptus trees can be seen, while several small houses are visible at left. An automobile can be seen in the middle of the road in the distance. Photoprint reads: "Old P.E. 400 on Citrus Avenue in Covina, 1907".
Type
image
Format
1 photograph : negative, b&w
21 x 26 cm.
negatives (photographic)
photographs
Identifier
chs-m5702
USC-1-1-1-5821 [Legacy record ID]
CHS-14615
http://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m5702
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/CHS-14615.jpg
Subject
Electric railroads--Cars
Los Angeles County--Covina
Pacific Electric Railway Company
Railroad features
Time Period
circa 1907
Place
California
Citrus Avenue
Covina
Los Angeles
USA
Source
1-120-141; 1-65- [Microfiche number]
14615 [Accession number]
CHS-14615 [Call number]
California Historical Society [Contributing entity]
Provenance
Craig Rasmussen Collection

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