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Title
Passengers on incline railway to Echo Mountain
Date Created and/or Issued
1915
1916
1917
1918
1919
1920
1921
1922
1923
1924
1925
Contributing Institution
Huntington Library
Collection
Photographs
Rights Information
For information on using Huntington Library materials, please see Reproductions of Huntington Library Holdings: https://www.huntington.org/library-rights-permissions
Description
Passengers on a portion of the Mount Lowe Railway cable car incline to Echo Mountain located in the San Gabriel mountains above Pasadena, California. A sign at right says "Echo Mountain 3500 feet above sea level" and the car says "Echo" across the front. A Pacific Electric streetcar is also seen at right. The domed building in the distance is the Mount Lowe Observatory with a telescope on Echo Mountain.
Title devised by cataloger; date approximated by cataloger based on style of clothing in image.
Type
image
Format
image/jpeg
Extent
1 photograph : print ; sheet 18.3 x 11.6 cm
Identifier
photCL_555
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15150coll2/id/19273
Subject
Mount Lowe Railway
San Gabriel Mountains (Calif.)
Mountains
Observatories
Railroads, Cable
Photographs. (aat)
Place
San Gabriel Mountains (Calif.)
Source
Photographs, Huntington Digital Library

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