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Title
Street car from the Steam Motorcar Line on Santa Fe Avenue and 9th Street, Los Angeles, ca.1897
Creator
Pierce, C.C. (Charles C.), 1861-1946
Date Created and/or Issued
circa 1897
Publication Information
University of Southern California. Libraries
Contributing Institution
California Historical Society
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 street car from the Steam Motorcar Line on Santa Fe Avenue and Ninth Street, Los Angeles, ca.1897. A group of boys stand in front of and fill most of the back of the car, while several adults sit or stand to the side. The road is unpaved and telephone poles are evident in front of the several one-story buildings that line it.
Type
image
Format
2 photographs : photonegative, photoprint, b&w
21 x 26 cm.
negatives (photographic)
photographic prints
photographs
Identifier
chs-m12602
USC-1-1-1-12757 [Legacy record ID]
CHS-6419
http://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m12602
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/CHS-6419.jpg
Subject
Street-railroads
Steam
Transportation--Rail--Street Railroads--General (Misc. Cars)
Transportation features
Time Period
circa 1897
Place
California
Los Angeles
Santa Fe Avenue & 9th Street
USA
Source
6419 [Accession number]
CHS-6419 [Call number]
California Historical Society [Contributing entity]
isla id: 1-120-26 [Identifying number]
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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