Trolley in front of the Florence Hotel in San Diego, ca.1888

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Photograph of a trolley in front of the Florence Hotel in San Diego, ca.1888. There are three buildings that make up the hotel; all of them are long rectangular buildings with white wooden siding and flat roofs. The small trolley is in the foreground on a dirt road and there are several people inside of it. A sign on the front of the trolley reads "P.C.S.S. Wharf & University Heights". "Note the Electric Rapid Transit Company car has trolley pull on the roof. The wire being hooked from the car roof to the trolley wire". Photoprint reads: "San Diego Rapid Transit Electric Co. has no trolly pole on roof, the wire being looped from the car roof to the trolley wire".

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Title Trolley in front of the Florence Hotel in San Diego, ca.1888

Subject buildings (adlf), Electric railroads (lcsh), Florence Hotel (subject), Hotels, taverns, etc. (lcsh), Railroads (lcsh), San Diego County -- San Diego -- Architecture (file heading), Transportation -- Street Railroads -- General -- Outside L.A. County (file heading), Views (lcsh)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

Place 4th Street & Fir Street (roadway), California (states), San Diego (city or populated place), San Diego (counties), USA (countries)

Temporal Subject 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 1888

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.

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Permanent Link (DOI) https://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m8744

Identifier 10127 (accession number), CHS-10127 (call number), CHS-10127 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-9116 (legacy record id), chs-m8744 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-12762 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-8876 (legacy record id), 1-120-83 (microfiche number), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 9116

Unique identifier UC138680

Legacy Identifier CHS-10127.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 20.2 in × 16.4 in at 300dpi
51.3 cm × 41.6 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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