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Title: P.E. car falls in wash
Alternative Title: Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
Creator: Ballew, Howard
Date Created and/or Issued: 1943
Contributing Institution: Los Angeles Public Library
Collection: Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection
Rights Information: Images available for reproduction and use. Please see the Ordering & Use page at http://tessa.lapl.org/OrderingUse.html for additional information.
Description: A Pacific Electric car is shown in Eaton Canyon wash in the Arcadia district at Huntington Dr. near Santa Anita on March 4, 1943, after it slid off from tracks weakened by flood waters. The streetcar smashed into a Model A Ford as it plunged into the wash, and a second car is partially uncovered beneath the P.E. car.
Type: image
Format: 1 photograph :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00056818
Herald Examiner Collection
HE box 9980.
CARL0000059379
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/21272
Subject: Pacific Electric Railway Company
Floods--California--Arcadia
Storms--California--Arcadia
Automobiles--California--Arcadia
Electric railroad accidents--California--Arcadia
Arcadia (Calif.)
Los Angeles Evening Herald and Express photographs
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs

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