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Title
Great cable incline, Mount Lowe Railway, ca.1899
Creator
Pierce, C.C. (Charles C.), 1861-1946
Date Created and/or Issued
circa 1899
Publication Information
University of Southern California. Libraries
Contributing Institution
California Historical Society
University of Southern California Digital Library
Collection
California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960
Rights Information
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
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Description
Photograph of great cable incline, Mount Lowe Railway, ca.1899. The cable car is at the bottom. About half of the fifty people in the image are on the car. An American flag flies from the top of the car. A building (station?) is visible to the left of the car at the base of the incline. CHS-222B shows eight different "scenes on line of Mount Lowe Railway".
Type
image
Format
1 photograph : glass photonegative, b&w
22 x 17 cm.
glass plate negatives
photographs
Identifier
chs-m5174
USC-1-1-1-5276
USC-0-1-1-5273 [Legacy record ID]
CHS-222A
CHS-222B
http://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m5174
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/CHS-222A.jpg
Subject
Los Angeles County--Altadena--Mt. Lowe
Mountains
Railroads, Cable
Transportation features
Time Period
circa 1899
Place
Altadena
California
Los Angeles
USA
Source
1-38-20 [Microfiche number]
222; 222A; 222B [Accession number]
CHS-222; CHS-222A; CHS-222B [Call number]
California Historical Society [Contributing entity]
unidentified no: 180 [Identifying number]
Relation
California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960
Title Insurance and Trust, and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection, 1860-1960
USC
chs-m265

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