An electric motor-driven car of San Diego Electric Rapid Transit, 1885-1888

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Photograph of an electric motor-driven car of San Diego Electric Rapid Transit, 1885-1888. Three men, and a women are riding on the car. One of the men, the driver, sits in a stall compartment on the right side of the car, behind the man who is standing. A large house is visible in the background.

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Title An electric motor-driven car of San Diego Electric Rapid Transit, 1885-1888

Subject Electric railroads (lcsh), San Diego County -- San Diego -- Street scenes -- Transportation (file heading), San Diego Electric Rapid Transit (subject), Street-railroads (lcsh), Transportation -- Street Railroads -- General -- Outside L.A. County (file heading), transportation features (adlf)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

Place California (states), San Diego (city or populated place), San Diego (counties), USA (countries)

Temporal Subject 1885/1888

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)

Date Created 1885/1888

Creator Pierce, C.C. (Charles C.), 1861-1946 (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 Send requests to address or e-mail given

Permanent Link (DOI) https://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m8771

Identifier 8438 (accession number), CHS-8438 (call number), CHS-8438 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-9142 (legacy record id), chs-m8771 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-12765 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-8904 (legacy record id), 1-120-77 (microfiche number), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 9142

Unique identifier UC139166

Legacy Identifier CHS-8438.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 18.9 in × 11.8 in at 300dpi
48.2 cm × 30.0 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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