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Title
[Los Angeles and Independence Railroad Depot, San Pedro Street near Wolfskill Lane], no. 1150
Creator
Watkins, Carleton E., 1829-1916
Date Created and/or Issued
[ca. 1877]
Contributing Institution
California State Library
Collection
California History Section Picture Catalog
Rights Information
Restricted original.
Use of original by permission of the Manager of the California History Room.
Description
Attributed to Carleton Watkins - reasonably certain Library's collection of mammoth prints printed from negatives by Watkins.
2005-0640.
View of L.A. and I.R.R. locomotive and car at the depot on San Pedro Street near Wolfskill Lane, Los Angeles. Shows men and a women standing on station platform, horse-drawn railroad car on tracks to the right.
Restricted original.
Negative, no. 6,272 (4 x 5 in.) b/w and color transparency.
Depot closed in 1877 following takeover of railroad by Southern Pacific. Burned in 1888.
Type
image
Format
Photographs.
Nonprojected graphic
Extent
1 photographic print mounted on linen : albumen ; image 15 3/8 x 20 1/8 in. on mount 16 1/4 x 21 in.
Identifier
(C)001386755CSL01-Aleph
(DRA)VVW-0036
Language
English
Subject
Railroads--California--Los Angeles
Railroad stations--California--Los Angeles
Horse railroads--California--Los Angeles
Los Angeles (Calif.)--Photographs
Photographic prints
Mammoth plates
Albumen prints
Place
California
Los Angeles
Los Angeles (Calif.)

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