Mount Lowe Railway souvenir, showing Circular Bridge, Ye Alpine Tavern, and Incline Railway, October 1909

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Photograph of Mount Lowe Railway souvenir, showing Circular Bridge, Ye Alpine Tavern, and Incline Railway, October 1909. The image shows a large decorative paper labeled "A Mt. Lowe ...Souvenir". Below the title, a large block of text is visible. To the left of the title, a large rectangular image showing the Incline Railway can be seen. At the top of the paper, two circular images with title scrolls directly beneath them are visible. The circular image at left reads "Circular Bridge", showing a small circular section of track winding around a mountain slope. The circular image at right reads "Ye Alpine Tavern", showing a large two-story structure surrounded by trees in the foreground.; Caption in the image reads: "A trip up Mt. Lowe, as made via the Pacific Electric Railway, is conceded by all travelers of discriminating taste to be one of the most charming in the world. The road is remarkable as an engineering achievement. Its bridges, its grades, its curves all signalize triumphs. It is not merely a matter of great height. It is not a question of bulk that appeals to the slow mind, but it is because its pictures contain all the gracious loveliness of valley vistas, all the languorous charm of sapphire seas, all the majesty of mountain masses, that fade into the mysterious vapors on the far limit of vision. And how sight carries here! Why from these pinnacles of granite about which the car sweeps, we look for two hundred miles, seeing dim blue ranges in far Mexico, seeing islands sleeping in the summer seas of the Santa Barbara channel, seeing the twin peaks of Catalina and the yet more distant sentinel, San Clemente, and in the same scope seeing all the intervening plains dotted with orange and lemon groves, cities and villages, riverbeds that lie like yellow ribbons on the far field of green, range upon range of mountain and foot-hills, with valleys between, and at our feet great canyons yawing, at our hand, buttresses of primeval rock, and whispering oaks, and silent, sentinel, century-old pines, grim, moss-be-decked, storm beaten!

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Title Mount Lowe Railway souvenir, showing Circular Bridge, Ye Alpine Tavern, and Incline Railway, October 1909

Subject Electric railroads (lcsh), Los Angeles County -- Altadena -- Mt. Lowe (file heading), Mountains (lcsh), Souvenirs (Keepsakes) (lcsh)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

Place Altadena (city or populated place), California (states), Los Angeles (counties), USA (countries)

Temporal Subject 1909-10-13

Type images

Format 1 photograph : photoprint, b&w ; 25 x 20 cm. (aacr2), photographic prints (aat), photographs (aat)

Source California Historical Society (contributing entity), California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960 (collection)

Date Created 1909-10-13

Contributor Whitmore, Robert S. (donor)

Publisher University of Southern California. Libraries (digital)

Repository Email specol@lib.usc.edu

Repository Name USC Libraries Special Collections

Repository Location Doheny Memorial Library, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0189

Rights Public Domain. Please credit both “University of Southern California. Libraries” and “California Historical Society” as the source. Digitally reproduced by the USC Digital Library.

Copyright Public Domain. Please credit both “University of Southern California. Libraries” and “California Historical Society” as the source. Digitally reproduced by the USC Digital Library.

Access Conditions Send requests to address or e-mail given

Permanent Link (DOI) https://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m5161

Identifier 40200 (accession number), CHS-40200 (call number), CHS-40200 (filename), chs-m15009 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-25708 (legacy record id), chs-m5161 (legacy record id), USC-0-1-1-5263 (legacy record id), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 25708

Unique identifier UC129131

Legacy Identifier CHS-40200.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 16.6 in × 20.6 in at 300dpi
42.1 cm × 52.4 cm at 300dpi

Inherited Values

Title California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960

Description The California Historical Society Collection is incomparable for the documentary picture it provides of the growth of Southern California, particularly the development of the Los Angeles region, between 1860 and 1960. The collection contains more than 25,000 photographs. The full archive was placed on long-term deposit at USC in 1990 and includes the Title Insurance and Trust Company Collection, also known as TICOR, and the Los Angeles Area Chamber of Commerce Collection.

We are grateful to the following individuals who have improved the information in the Digital Library by bringing inaccuracies to our attention as well as adding information. C.J. Bell, Paul Boyle, James Cartwright, Phil Coscia, Bill Counter, Richard Davis, Ray DeLea, Mark French, Amanda Frye, Eric Gustafson, James King, Bill Morgan, Heather Pitts, Tim Poyorena-Miguel, Jo Anne Sadler, Ellen Lloyd Trover, Ruth Wallach, Kim Walters, Cynthia Wilson, Betsy Woodford, Chancy Woolridge, and many others.

Date Created 1860/1960

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