California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960

Title Insurance and Trust and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection 1860-1960

Pacific Electric Railway car on Citrus Avenue in Covina, ca.1907

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Pacific Electric Railway car on Citrus Avenue in Covina, ca.1907

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Photograph of a Pacific Electric Railway car on Citrus Avenue in Covina, ca.1907. The streetcar is at center and is a dark vehicle with glass windows on the front and a sign that says "Covina Line" on top. A uniformed man is standing in the car, while another is standing near the entrance at center. There are two sets of tracks on the unpaved street, and a line of utility poles is visible at left. At right, a row of eucalyptus trees can be seen, while several small houses are visible at left. An automobile can be seen in the middle of the road in the distance. Photoprint reads: "Old P.E. 400 on Citrus Avenue in Covina, 1907".

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Title Pacific Electric Railway car on Citrus Avenue in Covina, ca.1907

Subject Electric railroads--Cars (lcsh), Los Angeles County -- Covina (file heading), Pacific Electric Railway Company (naf), railroad features (adlf)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

Place California (states), Citrus Avenue (roadway), Covina (city or populated place), Los Angeles (counties), USA (countries)

Temporal Subject 1907

Type images

Format 1 photograph : negative, b&w ; 21 x 26 cm. (aacr2), 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 1907

Contributor Craig Rasmussen Collection (provenance)

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.

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Permanent Link (DOI) https://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m5702

Identifier 14615 (accession number), CHS-14615 (call number), CHS-14615 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-5730 (legacy record id), chs-m5702 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-5821 (legacy record id), 1-120-141 (microfiche number), 1-65- (microfiche number), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 5730

Unique identifier UC127555

Legacy Identifier CHS-14615.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 19.1 in × 15.4 in at 300dpi
48.6 cm × 39.3 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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