Opening day of the Pacific Electric line[?] at the Long Beach Pier, ca.1900-1902

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Photograph of a celebration for opening day of the Pacific Electric line or of the new pier and pavilion at the Long Beach Pier, ca.1900-1902. Throngs of people crowd the street and pier which reaches out into the ocean toward a steamship. Rail tracks are visible in the street with electric lines directly above. Many American flags are waving. Legible signs include: "Grand ocean excursion in the steamship Hermosa to yacht and launch races, breakwater and night parade, H. Browne, agt."

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Title Opening day of the Pacific Electric line[?] at the Long Beach Pier, ca.1900-1902

Subject Electric railroads (lcsh), Long Beach (subject), Long Beach -- General -- Pike and pier (file heading), Long Beach (LA) -- General Views (Pier and Pike) (subject), piers (adlf), piers (lcsh)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

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

Temporal Subject 1900/1902

Type images

Format 2 photographs : photonegative, glass photonegative, b&w ; 10 x 13 cm., 17 x 22 cm. (aacr2), glass plate negatives (format), negatives (photographic) (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 1900/1902

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-m5842

Identifier 1989 (accession number), CHS-1989 (call number), CHS-1989 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-5856 (legacy record id), chs-m5842 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-5950 (legacy record id), 1-32- (microfiche number), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 5856

Unique identifier UC127805

Legacy Identifier CHS-1989.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 17.3 in × 13.3 in at 300dpi
43.9 cm × 33.9 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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