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 portrait of Sir J. Cliffton Robinson, ca.1889-1890. Sir Robinson, the tramway king who put in the cable railroad for the Los Angeles Cable Railway Company owned by the Pacific Railway Company of Chicago, is depicted standing up against a neutral background, dressed in a suit. His watch fob is visible across his stomach, dropping onto his pants pocket at right, where he has secured his hand. He holds the stub of a cigar in his other hand. He is balding, with two tufts of hair to either side near his ears, and sport a handlebar moustache. Writing in the lower left corner of the image reads "SP 4". Picture file card reads: "J.F. Crank -- general manager/president 1890".
Type
image
Format
2 photographs : photonegative, photoprint, b&w 26 x 21 cm. negatives (photographic) photographic prints photographs art
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