California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960

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

Map of the street railway lines of the Los Angeles street car system, December 1888

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Map of the street railway lines of the Los Angeles street car system, December 1888

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Photograph of a map of the street railway lines of the Los Angeles street car system, December 1888. A small web of solid and dotted lines is pictured, indicating the shape and direction of the various street car services in Los Angeles. To the bottom right, a key is shown that gives a different type of line for each of nine different street car lines and their milelages.; The streetcar lines represented are: L.A. Cable Railway, Pico Street Electric Railway, Temple Street Railway, Nickel Plate Railway, Main Street Railway, Mateo Street -- Santa Fe Depot, Vernon Railway, East Second Street Railway and the Second Street Cable Railway.

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Title Map of the street railway lines of the Los Angeles street car system, December 1888

Subject Maps -- Street railroads (file heading), railroad features (adlf), Street-railroads (lcsh)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

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

Temporal Subject 1888-12

Type images, maps

Format 2 photographs : photonegative, photoprint, b&w ; 26 x 21 cm. (aacr2), maps (aat), negatives (photographic) (aat), photographic prints (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 1888-12

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-m13240

Identifier 12859 (accession number), CHS-12859 (call number), CHS-12859 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-12749 (legacy record id), chs-m13240 (legacy record id), USC-0-1-1-13393 (legacy record id), 1-120-87 (microfiche number), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 12749

Unique identifier UC135408

Legacy Identifier CHS-12859.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 13.5 in × 16.7 in at 300dpi
34.2 cm × 42.5 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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