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Title
Traveling to Altadena and Mount Lowe
Alternative Title
Security Pacific National Bank Photo Collection
Date Created and/or Issued
Circa 1896
Contributing Institution
Los Angeles Public Library
Collection
Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection
Rights Information
Images available for reproduction and use. Please see the Ordering & Use page at http://tessa.lapl.org/OrderingUse.html for additional information.
Description
View of three streetcars full of travelers on their way to Altadena with continuing service to Mount Lowe, as indicated on the top car streetcar #45 on the left. Visiting Mount Lowe in the San Gabriel Mountains was a "must" for the local inhabitants as well as tourists. The journey started at Mountain Junction in Altadena, moved by electric car (such as shown here) to Rubio Pavilion, the bottom terminus of the Cable Incline Railway. This photograph was taken at Lake Avenue and Mariposa in Altadena.
Type
Image
Format
1 photograph :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier
00069049
Security Pacific National Bank Collection
Transportation-Cable cars-Mount Lowe.; A-010-221 4x5
CARL0000072991
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/107571
Subject
Pacific Electric Railway Company
Electric railroads--California--Altadena
Cable cars (Streetcars)--California--Altadena
Electric railroads--Cars--California--Altadena
Altadena (Calif.)

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