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Title
First Mount Lowe Railway car to leave Altadena for Rubio Canyon, July 4, 1893
Date Created and/or Issued
1893-07-04
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 first Mount Lowe Railway car to leave Altadena for Rubio Canyon, July 4, 1893. A large group of finely-dressed people gather on the railroad platform looking towards the foreground. Many stand on the raised, wooden platform at right while others sit on a decorated railroad car at center. Two small boys stand on broken shards of wood in the foreground while flags wave in the background.
Type
image
Format
1 photograph : photoprint, b&w
13 x 18 cm.
photographic prints
photographs
Identifier
chs-m5163
USC-0-1-1-5265 [Legacy record ID]
CHS-40191
http://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m5163
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/CHS-40191.jpg
Subject
Electric railroads
Mountains
Los Angeles County--Altadena--Mt. Lowe
Railroad features
Time Period
1893-07-04
Place
Altadena
California
Los Angeles
USA
Source
40191 [Accession number]
CHS-40191 [Call number]
California Historical Society [Contributing entity]
Relation
California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960
USC
chs-m15009

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