Crowd of people gathered for opening day of the electric car line in Santa Monica, April 1, 1896

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Title	Crowd of people gathered for opening day of the electric car line in Santa Monica, April 1, 1896
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.
Subject (adlf)	parades and festivals
Subject (file heading)	Transportation -- Street Railroads -- General; Transportation -- Rail -- Street railroads -- Electric cars
Subject (lcsh)	Street-railroads Electric railroads
Geographic subject (city or populated place)	Santa Monica
Geographic subject (county)	Los Angeles
Geographic subject (state)	California
Geographic subject (country)	USA
Coverage date	1896-04-01
Photographer	Pierce, C.C. (Charles C.), 1861-1946
Publisher (of the digital version)	University of Southern California. Libraries
Date created	1896-04-01
Type	images
Format (aacr2)	5 photographs : photonegatives, photoprint, b&w ; 10 x 13 cm., 20 x 25 cm., 17 x 22 cm.
Format (aat)	portraits negatives (photographic) photographic prints photographs
Accession number	1943
Call number	CHS-1943
Microfiche number	1-120-3; 1-54-
Legacy record ID	chs-m12459; USC-1-1-1-12614
Part of collection	California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960
Part of subcollection	Title Insurance and Trust, and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection, 1860-1960
Project	USC
Rights	California Historical Society
Access conditions	Send requests to address or e-mail given. Phone (213) 821-2366; fax (213) 740-2343.
Repository name	USC Libraries Special Collections
Repository address	Doheny Memorial Library, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0189
Repository email	specol@usc.edu
Filename	CHS-1943
Archival file	chs_Volume78/CHS-1943.tiff

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