Image / First Pacific Electric train to Santa Monica

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Title: First Pacific Electric train to Santa Monica
Date Created and/or Issued: 1896-04
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: Image of a crowd of passengers standing in front of a Pacific Electric streetcar on a dirt road after disembarking from the first electric train to arrive in Santa Monica, California, on April 1, 1896.
This is a copy negative (a photograph of another photograph). Title and date based on note from Ernest Marquez, "Santa Monica- First Pacific Electric train to Santa Monica, April 1, 1896" written on envelope as it was received. The Pacific Electric Railway system of electric streetcars and rail was also known as the Red Car system.
Type: image
Format: image/jpeg
Extent: 1 photograph : film negative ; sheet 10 x 12.5 cm
Identifier: photCL_555
490058
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15150coll2/id/16740
Subject: Pacific Electric Railway Company
Electric railroads--Cars
Local transit
Trolley cars
Street-railroads
Photographs. (aat)
Place: Santa Monica (Calif.)
Source: Photographs, Huntington Digital Library

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