Pacific Electric Railway car in Long Beach on opening day of the Pacific Electric line, July 4, 1902
Title
Pacific Electric Railway car in Long Beach on opening day of the Pacific Electric line , July 4 , 1902
Description
Photograph of a Pacific Electric Railway car in Long Beach on opening day of the Long Beach line, July 4, 1902. The electric railroad car is at center and resembles a streetcar. A long arm reaches from the top of the car to an overhead wire. The car is dark-colored and bears the number 219, as well as the words "Long Beach". There are many people in the car and entering the car through doors at the front and back. Two young boys are watching in the foreground at left. A two story building can be seen in the background at left.
Subject
Pacific Electric Railway
Subject (adlf)
railroad features
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)
Long Beach
Geographic subject (county)
Los Angeles
Geographic subject (state)
California
Geographic subject (country)
USA
Coverage date
1902-07-04
Publisher (of the digital version)
University of Southern California . Libraries
Date created
1902-07-04
Type
images
Format (aacr2)
2 photographs : photonegative , photoprint , b&w ; 13 x 18 cm .
Format (aat)
negatives (photographic) photographic prints photographs
Contributing entity
California Historical Society
Accession number
14346
Call number
CHS-14346
Microfiche number
1-32- ; 1-120-91
Legacy record ID
chs-m20284 ; USC-0-1-1-12646
Part of collection
California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960
Project
USC
Provenance
Craig Rasmussen Collection
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
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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-14346
Archival file
chs_Volume117/CHS-14346.tiff
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