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Title Insurance and Trust and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection 1860-1960
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The first electric streetcar between Los Angeles and Pasadena, ca.1900
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The first electric streetcar between Los Angeles and Pasadena, ca.1900

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Photograph of the first electric streetcar between Los Angeles and Pasadena, ca.1900. The streetcar tilts to the left as it rounds a turn, loaded with passengers. Surrounding it are the poles that create the latticework for the streetcar's cable support, behind which is a line of trees. What appears to be the spire of a church is visible in the right background. The car service itself began on May 30th, 1894. Photoprint reads: "Note that this may also be first car into Alhambra in 1901". 
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Title The first electric streetcar between Los Angeles and Pasadena, ca.1900 
Publisher University of Southern California. Libraries (digital) 
Date Created 1900 
Subject Electric railroads  (lcsh), Pasadena and Los Angeles Electric Railway  (subject), Street-railroads  (lcsh), Transportation -- Rail -- Street railroads -- Electric cars #2  (file heading), Transportation -- Street Railroads -- General  (file heading), transportation features  (adlf) 
Tags OAI-PMH Harvest 
Place California (states), Los Angeles (counties), South Pasadena (city or populated place), USA (countries) 
Temporal Subject 1900 
Type images
Format 2 photographs : photonegative, photoprint, b&w ; 10 x 13 cm., 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. 
Access Conditions Send requests to address or e-mail given 
Permanent Link (DOI) https://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m12427 
Identifier 6430 (accession number), CHS-6430 (call number), CHS-6430 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-11936 (legacy record id), chs-m12427 (legacy record id), USC-0-1-1-12582 (legacy record id), 1-120-22 (microfiche number), 1-37- (microfiche number), USC (project) 
IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID] 
DM Record ID 11936 
Unique identifier UC131321 
Legacy Identifier CHS-6430.tiff 
Type Image 
Internet Media Type image/tiff
Resolution 17.0 in × 13.6 in at 300dpi
43.1 cm × 34.5 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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