One of the first successful types of streetcar used on the Second Street hill by the Los Angeles Railway Company at Central Avenue and Sixth Street looking west, West Lake Park, ca.1891
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 Send requests to address or e-mail given USC Libraries Special Collections specol@usc.edu
Description
Photograph of one of the first successful types of streetcar used on the Second Street hill by the Los Angeles Railway Company at Central Avenue and Sixth Street looking west, West Lake Park, ca.1891. The car stands empty at the center of an unpaved dirt road with six main open-air windows on each lengthwise side flanked by two smaller windows to the left and right. It's trolley pole extending to the trolley wire above it. A sign on the car reads "Transfers to All Parts of the City". Houses and utility poles are visible in the background. To the left, advertisement signs read "Everything in Wearables for Man, woman and Child, / [Ea]sy Payments [...] Broadway / [...] Dept. West of Ch[...]".
Type
image
Format
1 photograph : transparency, photoprint, b&w 21 x 26 cm. transparencies photographic prints photographs
Los Angeles Railway Company Street-railroads Electric railroads Transportation--Street Railroads--General Transportation--Rail--Street railroads--Electric cars #2 Railroad features
Time Period
circa 1891
Place
California Central Avenue & Sixth Street 2nd Street Los Angeles USA
Source
1-120-41 [Microfiche number] 7068 [Accession number] CHS-7068 [Call number] California Historical Society [Contributing entity]
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