Crowd at Terminal Station at Mountain Junction on the opening day of the Mount Lowe Railway, 1893

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Photograph of a crowd at Terminal Station at Mountain Junction on the opening day of the Mount Lowe Railway, 1893. At center, a group of ten pedestrians stands on the boards next to a decorated trolley car on which other celebrants are seated. In back, still more people stand on the platform.

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Title Crowd at Terminal Station at Mountain Junction on the opening day of the Mount Lowe Railway, 1893

Publisher University of Southern California. Libraries (digital)

Date Created 1893

Subject Electrical Railroads (lcsh), Los Angeles County -- Altadena -- Mt. Lowe (file heading), Mount Lowe Railway (corporate name), railroad features (adlf)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

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

Temporal Subject 1893

Type images

Format 1 photograph : photoprint, b&w ; 26 x 21 cm. (aacr2), photographic prints (aat), photographs (aat)

Source California Historical Society (contributing entity), California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960 (collection), Los Angeles Area Chamber of Commerce Collection, 1890-1960 (subcollection)

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.

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Permanent Link (DOI) https://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m11092

Identifier 36698 (accession number), CHS-36698 (call number), CHS-36698 (filename), chs-m825 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-10517 (legacy record id), chs-m11092 (legacy record id), USC-2-1-1-11242 (legacy record id), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 10517

Unique identifier UC140478

Legacy Identifier CHS-36698.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 19.2 in × 15.5 in at 300dpi
48.9 cm × 39.4 cm at 300dpi

Inherited Values

Title Los Angeles Area Chamber of Commerce Collection 1890-1960

Description The more than 3,600 unique photographs of this collection document the Chamber's promotional efforts during the city's early years. In addition to stock photographs, there are pictures of the elaborate booths and displays that the Chamber prepared for use at state fairs and international trade shows. The photographic collection contains images showing the growth of important municipal enterprises, such as ground transportation systems, aviation, and shipping. In addition there are about 1,000 lantern slides in this collection -- not yet fully digitized.

Date Created 1860/1960

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