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Title Insurance and Trust and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection 1860-1960
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The first Mount Lowe Railway ride showing car on curved bridge, July 4, 1893
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The first Mount Lowe Railway ride showing car on curved bridge, July 4, 1893
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Description
Photograph of the first passengers of Professor S.C. Lowe's dramatic Mount Lowe Railway, July 4, 1893. There are a couple of dozen people in the rail car (number "9") which is headed toward the camera on the circular bridge. The trestle structure is visible below the rails. The hotel on the mountaintop is visible at left as is the rail approach to the hotel. Caption on photoprint reads: "Whee! Rounding the bend on Professor Thaddeus S.C. Lowe's Mt. Lowe Railway. On July 4, 1893, the first passengers took the dramatic ride up the famous mountain near Los Angeles".
Asset Metadata
Title
The first Mount Lowe Railway ride showing car on curved bridge, July 4, 1893
Subject
Bridges
(lcsh),
Electric railroads
(lcsh),
Los Angeles County -- Altadena -- Mt. Lowe
(file heading),
Mountains
(lcsh),
railroad features
(adlf)
Tags
OAI-PMH Harvest
Place
Altadena
(city or populated place),
California
(states),
Los Angeles
(counties),
USA
(countries)
Temporal Subject
1893-07-04
Type
images
Format
2 photographs : photonegative, photoprint, b&w ; 20 x 25 cm.
(aacr2),
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
1893-07-04
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
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Permanent Link (DOI)
https://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m5166
Identifier
939 (
accession number
), CHS-939 (
call number
), CHS-939 (
filename
), chs-m265 (
legacy collection record id
), chs-c65-25713 (
legacy record id
), chs-m5166 (
legacy record id
), USC-0-1-1-5268 (
legacy record id
), 1-38-31 (
microfiche number
), USC (
project
)
IIIF ID
[Document.IIIFV3ID]
DM Record ID
25713
Unique identifier
UC129197
Legacy Identifier
CHS-939.tiff
Type
Image
Internet Media Type
image/tiff
Resolution
18.5 in × 15.9 in at 300dpi
47.0 cm × 40.6 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
Linked assets
Title Insurance and Trust and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection 1860-1960
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