Image / Santa Monica, opening day of Pacific Electric Railroad, April 1, 1896

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Title: Santa Monica, opening day of Pacific Electric Railroad, April 1, 1896
Creator: Pierce, C. C. (Charles C.), 1861-1946
Date Created and/or Issued: 1896-04-01
Contributing Institution: Huntington Library
Collection: Photographs
Rights Information: For information on using Huntington Library materials, please see Reproductions of Huntington Library Holdings: https://www.huntington.org/library-rights-permissions
Description: Image of a crowd of passengers standing in front of a Pacific Electric streetcar on a dirt road after disembarking from the first electric train to arrive in Santa Monica, California, on April 1, 1896.
Title from verso; date from verso.
Type: image
Format: image/jpeg
Extent: 1 black and white photo; 17 x 21 cm
Identifier: 27629
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15150coll2/id/7454
Subject: Pacific Electric Railway Company
Street-railroads
Local transit
Photographic prints. (gmgpc)
Silver gelatin prints. (gmgpc)
Place: Santa Monica (Calif.)
Source: Photographs, Huntington Digital Library

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