Mount Lowe Railway serpentine track from Echo Mountain to Alpine Tavern, California, [s.d.]

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Photograph of Mount Lowe Railway serpentine track from Echo Mountain to Alpine Tavern, California, [s.d.]. In the foreground at the bottom of the image, rows of scrub brush are visible. In the background, a serpentine track can be seen near the base of the mountain at left and extending along the side to the top of the mountain at left. Along the track, small poles supporting an array of wires can be seen. To the right of the track, a steep mountainside covered in vegetation is visible. Additional mountain ranges are barely visible in the extreme background.

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Title Mount Lowe Railway serpentine track from Echo Mountain to Alpine Tavern, California, [s.d.]

Subject Electric railroads (lcsh), Los Angeles County -- Altadena -- Mt. Lowe (file heading), Mountains (lcsh), transportation features (adlf)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

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

Type images

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

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

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-m5140

Identifier 174 (accession number), CHS-174 (call number), CHS-174 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-25687 (legacy record id), chs-m5140 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-5242 (legacy record id), 1-38-17 (microfiche number), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 25687

Unique identifier UC128956

Legacy Identifier CHS-174.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 14.2 in × 18.4 in at 300dpi
36.1 cm × 46.8 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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