Pico Heights electric car, the first in Los Angeles, ca.1887

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Title Pico Heights electric car, the first in Los Angeles, ca.1887

Description Photograph of a Pico Heights electric car, the first in Los Angeles, ca.1887. Sixteen people stand in or around the car. Three people, one of whom is the engineer, attend the operator's car in front, while the rest congregate around the passenger car trailing it to the left. A sign spans the top of the cable car reading: "Plaza, Pico Street, Pico Heights".

Creator Pierce, C.C. (Charles C.), 1861-1946 (photographer)

Publisher University of Southern California. Libraries (digital)

Date Created 1887

Subject Electric railroads (lcsh), Street-railroads (lcsh), Transportation -- Rail -- Street railroads -- Electric cars #2 (file heading), Transportation -- Street Railroads -- General (file heading), transportation features (adlf)

Tags oai:digitallibrary.usc.edu:chs,OAI-PMH Harvest

Place California (states), Los Angeles (city or populated place), Los Angeles (counties), Pico Heights (city or populated place), USA (countries)

Temporal Subject 1887

Type images

Format 2 photographs : photonegative, photoprint, b&w ; 21 x 26 cm. (aacr2), negatives (photographic) (aat), 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)

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-m12474

Identifier 7120 (accession number), CHS-7120 (call number), CHS-7120 (filename), isla id: 1-120-62 (identifying number), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-11715 (legacy record id), chs-m12474 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-12629 (legacy record id), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 11715

Unique identifier UC131161

Legacy Identifier CHS-7120.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 19.2 in × 14.8 in at 300dpi
48.9 cm × 37.8 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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