California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960

Title Insurance and Trust and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection 1860-1960

Pacific Electric and Salt Lake Railroad station in Long Beach, 1905

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Pacific Electric and Salt Lake Railroad station in Long Beach, 1905

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Photograph of the depot for the Pacific Electric Railway and Salt Lake Railroad in Long Beach, 1905. The long one-story Mission-style structure has a tile roof. Electric wires hang over the rails. About thirteen people are visible in the open-air waiting room separated from the platform by a series of arches. Two bicycles are parked nearby. A scale stands at one corner. A signal stands on the platform. Legible signs include: "Salt Lake Station", "Los A, 22 miles, Long Beach", ..."ticket office"..., "Postal, telegraph"..., "Baggage room".

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Title Pacific Electric and Salt Lake Railroad station in Long Beach, 1905

Subject Electric railroads (lcsh), Los Angeles County -- Long Beach -- Architecture -- Commercial (file heading), Pacific Electric Railway (subject), Railroads -- Stations (lcsh), Salt Lake Railroad (subject), transportation features (adlf)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

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

Temporal Subject 1905

Type images

Format 3 photographs : photonegatives, glass photonegative, b&w ; 10 x 13 cm., 20 x 25 cm. (aacr2), glass plate negatives (format), negatives (photographic) (aat), photographs (aat)

Source California Historical Society (contributing entity), California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960 (collection), Title Insurance and Trust, and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection, 1860-1960 (subcollection)

Date Created 1905

Creator Pierce, C.C. (Charles C.), 1861-1946 (photographer)

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-m6461

Identifier 2468 (accession number), CHS-2468 (call number), CHS-2468 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-6546 (legacy record id), chs-m6461 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-6576 (legacy record id), 1-32-26 (microfiche number), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 6546

Unique identifier UC116791

Legacy Identifier CHS-2468.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 19.1 in × 15.2 in at 300dpi
48.7 cm × 38.7 cm at 300dpi

Inherited Values

Title Title Insurance and Trust and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection 1860-1960

Description The nearly 15,000 unique photographs of this collection contain the work of C.C. Pierce which cover the Los Angeles region city, street and architectural views, California Missions, Southwestern Native Americans, and turn-of-century Nevada, Arizona, and California. Pierce, active from 1886 to 1940, was one of the leading photographers of his day and amassed a collection of 15,000 images, including his own and those bought and copied from his contemporaries, George Wharton James and Charles Puck. The James collection contains over 2,000 images of portraits, customs, ceremonies, arts, and games of various groups of Southwestern Native Americans.

Date Created 1860/1960

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