Mount Lowe Incline Railway and passengers, California, ca.1901

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Photograph of Mount Lowe Incline Railway and passengers, California, ca.1901. At the base of the incline is an open air cable car with about eight passengers. Next to the incline at the station is a an electric railcar. Flights of stairs flank the base of the incline rails. Several men are seen posing casually around the railway car. The metal tracks of the railway car are positioned against the mountain at a steep angle and are visible up to the peak of the mountain.

Asset Metadata

Title Mount Lowe Incline Railway and passengers, California, ca.1901

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

Publisher University of Southern California. Libraries (digital)

Date Created 1901

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), mountains: Mount Lowe (geographic subject), USA (countries)

Temporal Subject 1901

Type images

Format 1 photograph : photoprint, glass photonegative, b&w ; 25 x 20 cm., 22 x 17 cm. (aacr2), glass plate negatives (format), 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)

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-m5181

Identifier 304 (accession number), CHS-304 (call number), CHS-304 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-25727 (legacy record id), chs-m5181 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-5283 (legacy record id), 1-38-24 (microfiche number), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 25727

Unique identifier UC129031

Legacy Identifier CHS-304.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 13.2 in × 17.2 in at 300dpi
33.7 cm × 43.7 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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