Passengers on a railroad car at the top of the Echo Mountain Incline Railway, October13, 1909

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Photograph of passengers on a railroad car at the top of the Echo Mountain Incline Railway, October13, 1909. The two-tiered car is at left and is loaded with a large number of passengers. The top tier of the car is covered by a cloth awning. Men, women, and children are visible, and all are dressed in nice clothes and hats. Several people can be seen standing in front of the car or on stairs at right.; A large sign at right reads: "Pacific Electric Ry. Alpine Tavern 5000 Feet above the sea Mt. Lowe 6100 Feet Echo Mountain Elevation 8500 feet above the sea".

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Title Passengers on a railroad car at the top of the Echo Mountain Incline Railway, October13, 1909

Subject Los Angeles County -- Altadena -- Mt. Lowe (file heading), Mountains (lcsh), railroad features (adlf), Railroads, Cable (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 : photonegative, b&w ; 13 x 10 cm. (aacr2), negatives (photographic) (aat), photographs (aat)

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

Date Created 1909-10-13

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-m5172

Identifier 32984 (accession number), CHS-32984 (call number), CHS-32984 (filename), chs-m15009 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-25719 (legacy record id), chs-m5172 (legacy record id), USC-0-1-1-5274 (legacy record id), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 25719

Unique identifier UC129069

Legacy Identifier CHS-32984.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 11.1 in × 14.1 in at 300dpi
28.2 cm × 36.0 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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