Image / Mount Lowe Railway car at Granite Gate, ca.1900
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- Title
- Mount Lowe Railway car at Granite Gate, ca.1900
- Creator
- Pierce, C.C. (Charles C.), 1861-1946
- Date Created and/or Issued
- circa 1900
- Publication Information
- University of Southern California. Libraries
- Contributing Institution
-
California Historical Society Collection at Stanford
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 Mount Lowe Railway car at Granite Gate, ca.1900. In the extreme foreground at center, a curving railroad track can be seen. Steep rocky embankments encroach closely on both sides of the rails. In the background at center, a railway car filled with people can be seen. Fir trees are visible beyond the "Gate". Photograph showing point just after the railway turns at Sunset Point into Grand Canyon.
- Type
- image
- Format
- 1 photograph : glass photonegative, b&w
26 x 21 cm.
glass plate negatives
photographs
- Identifier
- chs-m5154
USC-1-1-1-5256 [Legacy record ID]
CHS-2180
http://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m5154
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/CHS-2180.jpg
- Subject
- Electric railroads
Mountains
Los Angeles County--Altadena--Mt. Lowe
Railroad features
- Time Period
- circa 1900
- Place
- Altadena
California
Los Angeles
USA
- Source
- 1-38-40 [Microfiche number]
2180 [Accession number]
CHS-2180 [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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