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Title
First day of work on Pacific Electric Railway's Del Rey and Redondo Trolley Line, ca.1900
Date Created and/or Issued
circa 1900
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 the first day of work on Pacific Electric Railway's Del Rey and Redondo Trolley Line, ca.1900. A group of men is seen in the center of the picture near the beach in Playa Del Rey. Nearby are three large draft horses, including two hitched to a vehicle on the left side and another on the right. There are tow dogs in the foreground on the left. Above the large group of men is a wire running from the left side of the image to the right.
Type
image
Format
2 photographs : photonegatives, b&w
21 x 26 cm.
negatives (photographic)
photographs
Identifier
chs-m7737 [Legacy record ID]
CHS-10527
http://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m7737
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/CHS-10527.jpg
Subject
Beaches
Los Angeles County--Playa Del Rey
Time Period
circa 1900
Place
California
Los Angeles
Playa del Rey Lagoon
USA
Source
1-56- [Microfiche number]
10527 [Accession number]
CHS-10527 [Call number]
California Historical Society [Contributing entity]
Relation
California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960
Title Insurance and Trust, and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection, 1860-1960
chs-m265

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