Mount Lowe Railway car rounding Lookout Point, [s.d.]

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Photograph of a Mount Lowe Railway car full of people rounding Lookout Point, with circular bridge in background, [s.d.]. The steep mountainside into which the rail bed is cut is rocky and covered with scrub brush. In the background to the left, a small railway car is visible moving near rocky slope. Several people can be seen on the car. To the left of the car along the track, large poles supporting wires can be seen. Additional poles are visible further in the background at right near a small circular section of track. To the left of the track, a large pole can be seen on the mountainside.

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Title Mount Lowe Railway car rounding Lookout Point, [s.d.]

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

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

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

Type images

Format 3 photographs : glass photonegative, photoprints, b&w ; 26 x 21 cm., 20 x 25 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-m5155

Identifier 2016 (accession number), CHS-2016 (call number), CHS-2016 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-25702 (legacy record id), chs-m5155 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-5257 (legacy record id), 1-38-35 (microfiche number), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 25702

Unique identifier UC128960

Legacy Identifier CHS-2016.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 14.5 in × 17.8 in at 300dpi
36.9 cm × 45.4 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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