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Title
View of a lawn being watered, showing a horse-drawn streetcar on Garfield Avenue in Alhambra, ca.1888
Date Created and/or Issued
circa 1888
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 a view of a lawn being watered, showing a horse-drawn streetcar on Garfield Avenue in Alhambra, ca.1888. A tall sprinkler is pictured at center attached to a standard garden hose in the middle of a lawn peppered by bushes and saplings. In the left backgorund, two horses draw a streetcar across an unpaved road.
Type
image
Format
4 photographs : photonegatives, photoprint, b&w
21 x 26 cm., 10 x 13 cm.
negatives (photographic)
photographic prints
photographs
Identifier
chs-m5077
USC-0-1-1-5179
USC-0-1-1-12750 [Legacy record ID]
CHS-12713
http://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m5077
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/CHS-12713.jpg
Subject
Los Angeles County--Alhambra--Streets
Transportation--Rail--Street railroads--Horse drawn cars
Streets
Horse railroads
Parks
Time Period
circa 1888
Place
Alhambra
California
Garfield Avenue
Los Angeles
USA
Source
1-24- [Microfiche number]
12713 [Accession number]
CHS-12713 [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
USC
chs-m265

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