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Title: Eldridge E. Hewitt, Los Angeles and San Pedro Railroad superintendent
Creator: Godfrey, W. M. (William Mollock), 1825-1900
Date Created and/or Issued: 1865
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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: Studio portrait of Eldridge Edwards Hewitt (1828-1895). Hewitt was superintendent of the Los Angeles & San Pedro Railroad beginning in 1870, and later the Southern Pacific Railroad; he also served as Los Angeles County treasurer (1876-1878) and county tax collection (1893-1894).
"Sunbeam Gallery No 55 Main Street Los Angeles" and "W. Godfrey"--text, handwritten in ink on verso Title devised by cataloger. Title devised by cataloger; date approximated by cataloger based on general history of photographer; William Godfrey photographed the Los Angeles & San Pedro locomotive in 1870.
Type: image
Format: image/jpeg
Extent: 1 photograph : print ; mount 17 x 11 cm
Identifier: photCL_555
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15150coll2/id/20342
Subject: Hewitt, Eldridge Edwards, 1828-1895
Los Angeles & San Pedro Railroad--Employees
Railroads--Employees
Photographs. (aat)
Portraits. (aat)
Place: Los Angeles (Calif.)
Source: Photographs, Huntington Digital Library

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