California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960

Railway car standing on tracks, San Pedro, 1911

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Railway car standing on tracks, San Pedro, 1911

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Photograph of railway standing on tracks, San Pedro, 1911. At center, a large rectangular railway car is visible. Large portions at the front and rear of the car are open near its entrances. An entrance is seen on each end of the car, and a small stairwell lies below the doorway. Small hand rails are seen next to the entrances on both sides of the car. Two sets of benches are visible behind the grid rails. To the right, a small stool is seen near the front of the car. Along the side of the car, four square windows are visible. The numbers "32" are seen below the windows of the car. A large banner above the windows reads: "San Pedro 5th St. LA Alameda St". At the top of the car, a trolley pole is seen extending to a wire above the car. Below the car, four steel wheels can be seen from the side supporting the vehicle. In the background, three tall trees rise against the plain sky. Description on the back of the photograph reads: "Los Angeles Pacific Co. #32 at 14th & Beacon in San Pedro-- 1911".; Although the photograph is dated by 1911, there is a chance that it was taken a bit later: Los Angeles Pacific did not serve San Pedro, so the photo was made after the "Great Merger" of 1911, when various properties were divided between the Harriman and Huntington interests and LAP merged with Pacific Electric (PE) which served San Pedro. Los Angeles Pacific was known for its green cars. Until they could be repainted into the new PE red, they served over the entire system.

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Title Railway car standing on tracks, San Pedro, 1911

Subject Electric railroads (lcsh), Los Angeles Pacific Company (subject), railroad features (adlf), Street-railroads (lcsh), Transportation -- Rail -- Street railroads -- Electric cars (file heading)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

Place 14th Street and Beacon Street (roadway), California (states), Los Angeles (city or populated place), Los Angeles (counties), San Pedro (city or populated place), USA (countries)

Temporal Subject 1911

Type images

Format 1 photograph : photoprint, b&w ; 13 x 18 cm. (aacr2), photographic prints (aat), photographs (aat)

Source California Historical Society (contributing entity), California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960 (collection)

Date Created 1911

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-m12487

Identifier 43709 (accession number), CHS-43709 (call number), CHS-43709 (filename), chs-m15009 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-11969 (legacy record id), chs-m12487 (legacy record id), USC-0-1-1-12642 (legacy record id), 1-120-125 (microfiche number), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 11969

Unique identifier UC131035

Legacy Identifier CHS-43709.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 18.2 in × 13.7 in at 300dpi
46.4 cm × 34.8 cm at 300dpi

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Title California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960

Description The California Historical Society Collection is incomparable for the documentary picture it provides of the growth of Southern California, particularly the development of the Los Angeles region, between 1860 and 1960. The collection contains more than 25,000 photographs. The full archive was placed on long-term deposit at USC in 1990 and includes the Title Insurance and Trust Company Collection, also known as TICOR, and the Los Angeles Area Chamber of Commerce Collection.

We are grateful to the following individuals who have improved the information in the Digital Library by bringing inaccuracies to our attention as well as adding information. C.J. Bell, Paul Boyle, James Cartwright, Phil Coscia, Bill Counter, Richard Davis, Ray DeLea, Mark French, Amanda Frye, Eric Gustafson, James King, Bill Morgan, Heather Pitts, Tim Poyorena-Miguel, Jo Anne Sadler, Ellen Lloyd Trover, Ruth Wallach, Kim Walters, Cynthia Wilson, Betsy Woodford, Chancy Woolridge, and many others.

Date Created 1860/1960

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