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Description
Photograph. "Stirring awake memories that had slumbered for more than a century, railroad officials yesterday staged a colorful pageant of transportation that thrilled thousands of Angelenos for two hours. Gayly costumed ladies of the Gay Nineties -- and the years before -- rode stage coaches and horse cars and stuttering, slow-moving trains of another era. Derby-hatted, mustachioed gentlemen in tight coats pumped high-wheeled bicycles -- 'bone-crushers' they were known as in those days -- all to celebrate formal opening of the new Union Station, pictured in background as oldest Union Pacific train approaches the city's newest in beautiful architecture." -- Examiner clipping attached to verso, dated 4 May 1939. Streetscape. Horizontal photography.
Type
image
Format
1 photograph : photoprint, b&w photographic prints photographs
-118.23614,34.05809 -118.231,34.05659 -118.23159,34.05397 -118.23682,34.05475 California Downtown Los Angeles Los Angeles USA Union Station Union Pacific Station
Source
3-1275-02805-1176 [Barcode] EXM-P-S-LOS-ANG-CIT-BUI-523 [Original Filename] Subjects 319 [Print Box] University of Southern California [Contributing entity]
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