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Title
Watts Station, looking south from the intersection of One Hundred Third Street and the Pacific Electric right of way, ca.1906
Date Created and/or Issued
circa 1906
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 Watts Station, looking south from the intersection of One Hundred Third Street and the Pacific Electric right of way, ca.1906. The station is at center and is a small brick building with a large wooden roof. Several people are standing outside, waiting for a train. A Pacific Electric railroad car can be seen on the tracks at right, while a large box car is visible near the station. Three sets of railroad track can be seen in the foreground, and a line of utility poles runs parallel to the tracks. A large stone building is visible in the background at center.
Type
image
Format
1 photograph : photonegative, b&w
21 x 26 cm.
negatives (photographic)
photographs
Identifier
chs-m20403 [Legacy record ID]
CHS-14592
http://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m20403
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/CHS-14592.jpg
Subject
Pacific Electric Company
Transportation--Street Railroads--Stations
Street-railroads
Terminals (Transportation)
Railroad features
Time Period
circa 1906
Place
103rd Street
California
Los Angeles
USA
Watts
Source
1-120- [Microfiche number]
14592 [Accession number]
CHS-14592 [Call number]
California Historical Society [Contributing entity]

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