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Title: Pacific Electric Railway Company Substation No. 8
Alternative Title: Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
Creator: Ruebsamen, James
Contributor: Made accessible through a grant from the John Randolph Haynes and Dora Haynes Foundation
Date Created and/or Issued: 1988
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: Built in 1905, this traction substation was used to power local Pacific Electric Railway lines as well as the Mount Lowe Railway. In 1941, the substation was included in a sale of Pacific Electric Lines to Pasadena City Lines, a subsidiary of National City Lines. In 1977, the substation was placed on the National Register of Historic Places.
Exterior view of the former Pacific Electric Railway Company Substation No. 8, aslo known as the Altadena Substation, located at 2245 N. Lake Avenue, Altadena. Photograph dated July 29, 1988.
Type: image
Format: 1 photographic print :b&w ;28 x 36 cm.
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00050081
Herald Examiner Collection
HH_b063_f4_i6
CARL0000054188
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/18075
Subject: Pacific Electric Railway
Electric railroads--California--Altadena--Substations
Altadena (Calif.)
Los Angeles Herald-Examiner photographs
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs

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