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Title: Mount Lowe Railway car
Alternative Title: Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
Date Created and/or Issued: 1930
Contributing Institution: Los Angeles Public Library
Collection: Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection
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Description: Title supplied by cataloger.; "Snow on Mt. Lowe" written on verso of image.
A Pacific Electric trolley full with passengers travels through the snow on the Mount Lowe Railway in the San Gabriel Mountains. Photo dated: January 31, 1930.; T.S.C. Lowe founded the Mount Lowe project and Mount Lowe Railway. In 1892, Oak Mountain, a 6,100 foot peak behind Echo Mountain, was renamed Mount Lowe in his honor. The rail system was engineered by David J. Macpherson and completed in 1893.
Type: image
Format: 1 photographic print :b&w ;26 x 21 cm.
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00074454
Herald Examiner Collection
HE box 1823.
CARL0000078416
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/24297
Subject: Mount Lowe Railway
Pacific Electric Railway Company
Electric railroads--California--Lowe, Mount (Los Angeles County)
Cable cars (Streetcars)--California--Lowe, Mount (Los Angeles County)
Snow
Lowe, Mount (Los Angeles County, Calif.)
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs

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