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Title
Crowd of people gathered for opening day of the electric car line in Santa Monica, April 1, 1896
Creator
Pierce, C.C. (Charles C.), 1861-1946
Date Created and/or Issued
1896-04-01
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 crowd of people gathered for opening day of the electric car line in Santa Monica, April 1, 1896. The men, women and children are piling off of four cars at center. The finely-dressed crowd stands in front of the cars in the foreground while trees hang over the cars from the left side.
Type
image
Format
5 photographs : photonegatives, photoprint, b&w
10 x 13 cm., 20 x 25 cm., 17 x 22 cm.
portraits
negatives (photographic)
photographic prints
photographs
Identifier
chs-m12459
USC-1-1-1-12614 [Legacy record ID]
CHS-1943
http://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m12459
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/CHS-1943.jpg
Subject
Street-railroads
Electric railroads
Transportation--Street Railroads--General
Transportation--Rail--Street railroads--Electric cars
Parades and festivals
Time Period
1896-04-01
Place
California
Los Angeles
Santa Monica
USA
Source
1-120-3; 1-54- [Microfiche number]
1943 [Accession number]
CHS-1943 [Call number]
California Historical Society [Contributing entity]

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