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Title: "Race Thru the Clouds" roller coaster, Venice, California
Creator: de Haaff, Mauritz, 1877-1948
Date Created and/or Issued: 1918
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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: People lined up to ride the Race Thru the Clouds roller coaster at the Venice Lagoon in Venice, California, located next to the Abbot Kinney Pier. A Los Angeles Pacific Company train car number 66 can be seen in the foreground and automobiles are near the archway with the sign "To Meet Again" at right.
"de Haaff Color Photo Engraving Top Floor San Fernando Building 4th and Main Sts. Los Angeles"--text, stamped on verso. "[ca. 1911]"--text, handwritten note on verso. Title devised by cataloger; date supplied by cataloger based on note on verso and date of similar image photCL_555_01_1797. The Los Angeles City Directory, 1911, p. 386, lists photographer: "de Haaff, Mauritz, engrav. 406 S Main" [Los Angeles]. The "Race Thru the Clouds" roller coaster operated from 1911-1923.
Type: image
Format: image/jpeg
Extent: 1 photograph : print ; sheet 20.3 x 25.6 cm
Identifier: photCL_555
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15150coll2/id/20033
Subject: Los Angeles Pacific Company
Amusement parks
Amusement rides
Local transit
Railroad cars
Roller coasters
Photographs. (aat)
Place: Venice (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Source: Photographs, Huntington Digital Library

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