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Title: First Electric in LA. 119.
Creator: Behrman, Martin
Contributor: SoCa Digitization Project. C
Date Created and/or Issued: [ca. 1887]
Contributing Institution: California State Library
Collection: California History Section Picture Catalog
Rights Information: Restricted: negatives not available for public viewing.
Description: BEHR-0041
Online image only, no photographic print available.
BEHRMAN NEGATIVES-B40: BEHR-0041
View of two early electric street railroad cars, "Plaza, Pico Street, Pico Heights" and "Spring Street, First Street, Boyle Heights;" shows men and women passengers embarking, striped curtain side openings to bench seats inside, electric utility poles and lines above. Los Angeles; ca. 1887.
Photographer's number: 119.
Title handwritten on front.
Restricted: negatives not available for public viewing.
Type: image
Format: Photographs.
Nonprojected graphic
Extent: 1 negative : b/w, nitrate ; 7 7/8 x 9 7/8 in.
Identifier: (C)001386332CSL01-Aleph
(DRA)VVV-9610
Subject: Electric railroads--California--Los Angeles
Passengers--California--Los Angeles
Electric lines--California--Los Angeles
Los Angeles (Calif.)--Photographs
Photographic prints
Nitrate negatives
Group portraits
Place: California
Los Angeles
Los Angeles (Calif.)

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