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Title
An Early horse car at foot of Fifth Avenue in San Diego, ca.1888
Date Created and/or Issued
circa 1888
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 an Early horse car at foot of Fifth Avenue in San Diego, ca.1888. Two horses are hitched to the trolley-like car. A man sits in the back looking out of the car towards the corner where people can be seen loading (or unloading?) cargo. Advertisement signs on the car reads: "mens furnishing goods, Marston's", "Chases music house", "go to Daggetts for everything first class, corner of 6th & F Sts.", "cor. Florence & Heights".
Type
image
Format
1 photograph : photonegative, b&w
21 x 26 cm.
negatives (photographic)
photographs
Identifier
chs-m8770
USC-1-1-1-8903 [Legacy record ID]
CHS-8442
http://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m8770
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/CHS-8442.jpg
Subject
Horse railroads
San Diego County--San Diego--Street scenes--Transportation
Roadways
Time Period
circa 1888
Place
5th Avenue
California
San Diego
USA
Source
1-46- [Microfiche number]
8442 [Accession number]
CHS-8442 [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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