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 a view of the opening of the Hollywood Subway on the Pacific Electric Railway, showing streetcars and onlookers, 1928. Electric streetcars sit on tracks in the center of the image the front car reads "Special". The tracks are crowded with onlookers in the foreground, and run to a tunnel in the right background. A billboard in the left background reads "[?]L Repairing. Everything for Building. Free Delivery". Residences and trees are visible on the hills in the background.
Type
image
Format
1 photograph : photonegative, b&w 21 x 26 cm. negatives (photographic) photographs
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