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Image / Photograph of Rubio Pavilion on Mount Lowe Railway, showing railway car, 1905

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Title
Photograph of Rubio Pavilion on Mount Lowe Railway, showing railway car, 1905
Date Created and/or Issued
1905
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 the Pacific Electric Mount Lowe Railway car number 891 in Rubio Canyon, 1905. The small car rides along the track around the steep, rocky canyon wall on the left. A large, lightly-colored house stands over the thick trees on the right. This house was destroyed by a storm in 1909.
Type
image
Format
1 photograph : photoprint, b&w
21 x 26 cm.
photographic prints
photographs
Identifier
chs-m5201
USC-0-1-1-5303 [Legacy record ID]
CHS-40210
http://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m5201
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/CHS-40210.jpg
Subject
Los Angeles County--Altadena--Mt. Lowe
Mountains
Hotels, taverns, etc
Electric railroads
Rubio Pavilion
Railroad features
Time Period
1905
Place
Altadena
California
Los Angeles
USA
Source
40210 [Accession number]
CHS-40210 [Call number]
California Historical Society [Contributing entity]
Relation
California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960
USC
chs-m15009
Provenance
Craig Rasmussen Collection

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