Bridge across the Arroyo Seco at Garvanza, showing the first cable-car to cross it, ca.1895

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Title	Bridge across the Arroyo Seco at Garvanza, showing the first cable-car to cross it, ca.1895
Description	Photograph of a bridge across the Arroyo Seco at Garvanza, showing the first cable-car to cross it, ca.1895. A group of eighteen people pose around and in front of a cable-car coming across the trestle from Cawston's Ostrich Farm in South Pasadena, approaching the U.S.C. College of Fine Arts in Garvanza. The man at the controls is named G.J. Roller. The L.A. and San Gabriel Valley Railroad, completed in 1885, is visible in the background crossing a second trestle across the arroyo. A hill is visible in the left distance.
Subject	Pacific Electric Railroad; Roller, G.J.
Subject (adlf)	transportation features bridges
Subject (file heading)	Los Angeles -- Highland Park -- Arroyo Seco; General Subjects -- Transportation -- Street Railways; Transportation -- Rail -- Street Railroads -- Electric Cars #2
Subject (lcsh)	Electric railroads
Geographic subject	canyons: Arroyo Seco
Geographic subject (roadway)	Pasadena Avenue between Avenue 66 and Monterey Road
Geographic subject (city or populated place)	Garvanza; Highland Park; Los Angeles
Geographic subject (county)	Los Angeles
Geographic subject (state)	California
Geographic subject (country)	USA
Coverage date	circa 1895
Photographer	Pierce, C.C. (Charles C.), 1861-1946
Publisher (of the digital version)	University of Southern California. Libraries
Date created	circa 1895
Type	images
Format (aacr2)	3 photographs : photonegative, transparency, photoprint, b&w ; 21 x 26 cm.
Format (aat)	negatives (photographic) transparencies photographic prints photographs
Accession number	7073
Call number	CHS-7073
Microfiche number	1-30-; 1-120-46
Legacy record ID	chs-m2024; USC-1-1-1-2083; USC-0-1-1-12588
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-7073
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Archival file	chs_Volume32/CHS-7073.tiff

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