Incline-railway car ascending Echo Mountain, [s.d.]

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Photograph of an incline-railway car ascending Echo Mountain, [s.d.]. The small car can be seen at center and is headed up a very steep slope. The front of the car is visible, and several people can be seen inside, pressed up against large windows. The word "Echo" appears on the front of the vehicle, while an American flag can be seen on its roof. The tracks can be seen in the foreground at left, and several chains are visible as they pull the car upwards. A utility pole is visible at left.

Asset Metadata

Title Incline-railway car ascending Echo Mountain, [s.d.]

Subject Mountains (lcsh), railroad features (adlf)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

Place Altadena (city or populated place), California (states), Los Angeles (counties), mountains: Mount Lowe (geographic subject), USA (countries)

Type images

Format 1 photograph : photonegative, b&w ; 12 x 7 cm. (aacr2), negatives (photographic) (aat), photographs (aat)

Source California Historical Society (contributing entity), California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960 (collection)

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-m22942

Identifier 49744 (accession number), CHS-49744 (call number), CHS-49744 (filename), chs-m15009 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-22480 (legacy record id), chs-m22942 (legacy record id), USC (project), TRAN-161 (unidentified no.)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 22480

Unique identifier UC125803

Legacy Identifier CHS-49744.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 17.3 in × 28.0 in at 300dpi
43.9 cm × 71.1 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

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