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Title
Cable car at end of the Boyle Heights line on First Street and Cemetery, ca.1890
Creator
Pierce, C.C. (Charles C.), 1861-1946
Date Created and/or Issued
circa 1890
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 cable car at end of the Boyle Heights line on First Street and Cemetery, ca.1890. The cable car conductor is C. Barrow. Seven passengers and a conductor are riding in the car. One of the passenger stands on the side rails between the two attached cars. Trees are visible in the background.
Type
image
Format
2 photographs : photonegative, photoprint, b&w
21 x 26 cm.
negatives (photographic)
photographic prints
photographs
Identifier
chs-m12587
USC-1-1-1-12742 [Legacy record ID]
CHS-8471
http://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m12587
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/CHS-8471.jpg
Subject
Street-railroads
Transportation--Rail--Street Railroads--Cable cars
Transportation features
Time Period
circa 1890
Place
California
First Street & Cemetery
Los Angeles
USA
Source
1-120-78 [Microfiche number]
8471 [Accession number]
CHS-8471 [Call number]
California Historical Society [Contributing entity]
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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