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 Send requests to address or e-mail given USC Libraries Special Collections specol@usc.edu
Description
Photographic portrait of passengers, conductors and engineers posing near Pico Boulevard Electric Railroad cars, Los Angeles, 1887. The cars stand on two tracks the leftmost car is pictured on the back track, while the car on the front track is farther back to the right. Each car features a windowed control cabin that stands separate of the longer, open-air passenger car, which stands hitched to it. Passengers, a few of whom are full grown men in suits and top hats, some of whom are children and one of whom is a woman, stand inside or to the side of the leftmost passenger car. The conductor stands with his watch in hand at the front. Farther back, two men stand to either side of young boys who are sitting on the front of the control-cabin of the second car. Other individuals hang out from the side of its passenger car. Streetcar cables and a tree are visible in the background.
Type
image
Format
3 photographs : photonegative, transparency, photoprint, b&w 21 x 26 cm. negatives (photographic) transparencies photographic prints photographs
Pico Street Electric Railroad Street-railroads Electric railroads Transportation--Street Railroads--General Transportation--Rail--Street Railroads--Electric Cars #2 Transportation features
Time Period
1887
Place
California Los Angeles Pico Boulevard USA
Source
1-120-67 [Microfiche number] 7610 [Accession number] CHS-7610 [Call number] California Historical Society [Contributing entity]
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