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Two street car operators on the South Loop Pacific Electric Railway on Altadena Drive, 1909
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Two street car operators on the South Loop Pacific Electric Railway on Altadena Drive, 1909
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Description
Photograph of two street car operators on the South Loop Pacific Electric Railway on Altadena Drive, 1909. At center, a tall, portly man and a shorter, thinner man stand at the entrance to Pacific Electric street car number 856. At right, the thinner man is equipped with a change belt. Behind the larger man, a sign on the car reads "Vesuviu[s]. Elks Big Sh[...]".
Asset Metadata
Title
Two street car operators on the South Loop Pacific Electric Railway on Altadena Drive, 1909
Subject
Electric railroads
(lcsh),
Pacific Electric Railway
(subject),
Street-railroads
(lcsh),
Transportation -- Rail -- Street railroads -- Electric cars #2
(file heading),
transportation features
(adlf)
Tags
OAI-PMH Harvest
Place
Altadena
(city or populated place),
Altadena Drive
(roadway),
California
(states),
Los Angeles
(counties),
USA
(countries)
Temporal Subject
1909-06-01
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)
Date Created
1909-06-01
Creator
Whitmore, Robert S.
(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
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Permanent Link (DOI)
https://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m12432
Identifier
33087 (
accession number
), CHS-33087 (
call number
), CHS-33087 (
filename
), chs-m15009 (
legacy collection record id
), chs-c65-11724 (
legacy record id
), chs-m12432 (
legacy record id
), USC-0-1-1-12587 (
legacy record id
), USC (
project
)
IIIF ID
[Document.IIIFV3ID]
DM Record ID
11724
Unique identifier
UC130277
Legacy Identifier
CHS-33087.tiff
Type
Image
Internet Media Type
image/tiff
Resolution
20.0 in × 16.0 in at 300dpi
50.8 cm × 40.8 cm at 300dpi
Inherited Values
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
Linked assets
California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960
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