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Description
Accession number: P273 Written in pen and pencil on back of the sepia 6 x 8 in. photograph is "Anaheim Car Line from Southern Pacific to Santa Fe Depots ; N.A. Bittner on the car. 1888 - ? / In 1907 the car track was sold to F. Conrad, he burned the ties under the boilers in his Brewery at West Anaheim, the rails he used in his mine in Silverado Canyon. / Gus Grinkey / Sampson {Edward Walton} (beard) / Mrs. H. L. Backs [Anna Maude Mickle, 1885-1954, wife of Herman Lewis Backs] / 423 N. Emily St. / Anaheim, Calif." View of 200 block of West Center Street; image shows north side of the street, with the Fashion Stables, established by Lafayette Lewis in 1872; image shows three men standing with a horse at the entrance of Fashion Stables, and a horse-drawn streetcar driven by Nick Bittner; a coal oil street lamp is visible behind the streetcar; the Anaheim Streetcar Company, [Theodore Rimpau, president] operated from January, 1887, until the fall of 1899, and connected the Southern Pacific (located at what became West Broadway and Mable Street) and Santa Fe depots; the streetcars hours of operation were from 7:30 AM until 6:05 PM, and they were especially patronized by women; the novelty wore off and operational expenses began to exceed revenue; service was discontinued in 1899 and the tracks were removed in 1901; signage on facade of stables reads "FASHION / LIVERY & FEED / STABLES".
Type
image
Format
1 Photographic print : b&w ; 5 x 7 in. 1 Photographic print : b&w ; 7 x 10 in. 1 Photographic print : sepia ; 4 x 6 1/2 in. 3 Photographic prints : sepia ; 5 1/2 x 8 in. 1 Photographic print : sepia ; 6 x 8 in. 1 Negative : 2 1/2 x 3 1/2in. 1 Negative : 4 x 5 in.
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