Passenger car from the Mount Lowe Incline Railway descending from the mountain into the Rubio Pavilion, [s.d.]

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Title Passenger car from the Mount Lowe Incline Railway descending from the mountain into the Rubio Pavilion, [s.d.]

Description Photograph of a passenger car from the Mount Lowe Incline Railway descending from the mountain into the Rubio Pavilion, [s.d.]. An open-air cart packed with passengers is visible at the very foot of the mountain's slope, stopped by a set of steps. An American flag waves from the center of the car, while other individuals wait along the tracks. A train car is visible to the left, next to the visible roof of the Rubio Pavilion. The mountain fills the background.

Publisher University of Southern California. Libraries (digital)

Subject Los Angeles County -- Altadena -- Mt. Lowe (file heading), Mountains (lcsh), railroad features (adlf), Railroads, Cable (lcsh)

Tags oai:digitallibrary.usc.edu:chs,OAI-PMH Harvest

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

Type images

Format 1 photograph : photonegative, b&w ; 16 x 10 cm. (aacr2), 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)

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-m5170

Identifier 12648 (accession number), CHS-12648 (call number), CHS-12648 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-25717 (legacy record id), chs-m5170 (legacy record id), USC-0-1-1-5272 (legacy record id), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 25717

Unique identifier UC129075

Legacy Identifier CHS-12648.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 6.6 in × 8.5 in at 300dpi
16.7 cm × 21.7 cm at 300dpi

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

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