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Title: Whittier freight station
Alternative Title: Los Angeles Photographers Photo Collection;
Date Created and/or Issued: Circa 1940
Contributing Institution: Los Angeles Public Library
Collection: Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection
Rights Information: Images available for reproduction and use. Please see the Ordering & Use page at http://tessa.lapl.org/OrderingUse.html for additional information.
Description: Title supplied by cataloger.
This structure has since been demolished.
Exterior of the Whittier freight station, serving both the Pacific Electric Railway Company and the Southern Pacific Railroad Company; at this time trucks, and not rail cars, delivered and picked up the freight.
Type: image
Format: 1 photographic print :b&w ;21 x 26 cm.
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00102632
Los Angeles Photographers Collection;
GPC_b046_f1_i36
CARL0005159709
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/116513
Subject: Pacific Electric Railway Company
Southern Pacific Railroad Company
Freight and freightage--California--Whittier
Railroad stations--California--Whittier
Signs and signboards--California--Whittier
Electric lines--Poles and towers
Lost architecture--California--Whittier
Whittier (Calif.)

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