Image / Pacific Electric Streetcar, Orange, California, ca. 1907

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Title: Pacific Electric Streetcar, Orange, California, ca. 1907
Creator: Dittmer, Adolph, Sr
Date Created and/or Issued: ca. 1907
Publication Information: Orange Public Library
Contributing Institution: Orange Public Library and History Center
Collection: Orange Public Library Local History Collection
Rights Information: For information on copyrights and permissions, please contact Orange Public Library, Orange, California.
Description: Pacific Electric Streetcar, Orange, California, ca. 1907. Postcard image shows view looking southwest through the Plaza Square, with riders crowded on "Orange Dummy" streetcar (a railroad term for the street-locomotive), posing for photograph. The Orange Dummy, also known as the Peanut Roaster for its shrill whistle, was built by the Tolle brothers who bought and operated the line and ran the streetcar beginning in 1896 from Orange to Santa Ana.
Postcard
Color
8.9 x 13.8 cm.
Type: image
Identifier: http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/kt2q2nb7dx
OPL137
10512026
Language: English
Subject: Street railroads
Orange (Calif.)
Orange Dummy--Orange (Calif.)
Pacific Electric--Orange (Calif.)

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