Image / Colorado Ave. Sept. 16--1885, opening of L.A. & S.G.V. RR Pasadena

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Title: Colorado Ave. Sept. 16--1885, opening of L.A. & S.G.V. RR Pasadena
Alternative Title: Opening of Los Angeles and San Gabriel Valley Railroad.
Creator: E.S. Frost & Son
Date Created and/or Issued: 1885
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: View down the wide dirt road of Colorado Street in Pasadena, California, filled with people and horse-drawn carriages on September 16, 1885, the day of a celebration for the opening of the Los Angeles and San Gabriel Valley Railroad line between downtown Los Angeles and Pasadena. Business line the right side of the street, empty lots in the foreground of the left. All are headed in one direction up the road. Visible signs on the buildings read "Carpenter Shop" and "Lumber Yard" and the Ward Block building is visible at left.
Title and date transcribed from front of photo-mount. Alt-title devised by cataloger. Also printed on left edge of photo-mount: "E.S. Frost & Son, / Photographers, Pasadena, Cal."
Type: image
Extent: 1 photograph : print ; mount 13 x 21 cm (cabinet format)
Identifier: photPF
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15150coll2/id/13845
Subject: Los Angeles and San Gabriel Valley Railroad. (local)
Railroads--California--Pasadena
Business districts--California--Pasadena. (aat)
Cabinet photographs. (aat)
Place: Pasadena (Calif.)
Source: Photographs, Huntington Digital Library

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