Pacific Electric Power House on Boylston and Second Street, ca.1905
Title
Pacific Electric Power House on Boylston and Second Street , ca.1905
Description
Photograph of the Second Street Railraod Power Station looking west from the corner of Boylston Street, ca.1905. The two-story brick utility building stands next to a cleared lot in front of an unpaved road in which streetcar rails can be seen, surrounded by utility poles. Houses in the residential area of the city can be seen to the left and on the hills in the background. A horse-drawn cargo wagon makes its way down the street at left. Between 1896 and 1906 the power house was in use as Edison Electric Company Steam Plant Number One.
Subject
Pacific Electric Company ; Edison Electric Company
Subject (adlf)
power generation sites
Subject (file heading)
Transportation -- Rail -- Street Railroads -- General (Buildings)
Subject (lcsh)
Street-railroads Power supply Buildings Steam
Geographic subject (roadway)
2nd Street & Boylston
Geographic subject (city or populated place)
Los Angeles
Geographic subject (county)
Los Angeles
Geographic subject (state)
California
Geographic subject (country)
USA
Coverage date
circa 1905
Photographer
Pierce , C.C . (Charles C.) , 1861-1946
Publisher (of the digital version)
University of Southern California . Libraries
Date created
circa 1905
Type
images
Format (aacr2)
2 photographs : photonegative , photoprint , b&w ; 21 x 26 cm .
Format (aat)
negatives (photographic) photographic prints photographs
Contributing entity
California Historical Society
Accession number
7176
Call number
CHS-7176
Identifying number
isla id : 1-120-65
Legacy record ID
chs-m12625 ; USC-1-1-1-12779
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
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
Physical access
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Repository name
USC Libraries Special Collections
Repository address
Doheny Memorial Library , Los Angeles , CA 90089-0189
Repository email
specol@usc.edu
Filename
CHS-7176
Archival file
chs_Volume79/CHS-7176.tiff
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