Passengers riding a miniature railroad on Windward Avenue in Venice, looking west, ca.1905

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Photograph of passengers riding a miniature railroad on Windward Avenue in Venice, looking west, ca.1905. The train does not appear to be any taller than five feet, and its engine can be seen to the right pulling the rest of the cars which are loaded with passengers. Letters hanging over the street above read "Venice". At center, several men and young boys stand in the center of the circular track. To the right, onlookers gather beneath the awning of a romanesque building.

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Title Passengers riding a miniature railroad on Windward Avenue in Venice, looking west, ca.1905

Subject Amusement parks (lcsh), Los Angeles County -- Los Angeles -- Venice -- Amusement pier (file heading), railroad features (adlf), Railroads, Miniature (lcsh)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

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

Temporal Subject 1905

Type images

Format 1 photograph : photoprint, b&w ; 21 x 26 cm. (aacr2), 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 1905

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-m4971

Identifier 12818 (accession number), CHS-12818 (call number), CHS-12818 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-25427 (legacy record id), chs-m4971 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-5071 (legacy record id), 1-56-5 (microfiche number), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 25427

Unique identifier UC128379

Legacy Identifier CHS-12818.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 17.0 in × 13.7 in at 300dpi
43.1 cm × 34.9 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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