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San Marino, CA 91108
Visual Materials
Long wooden railroad trestle bridge of the Los Angeles and San Gabriel Valley Railroad crosses the wide dry river bed of the Arroyo Seco near Pasadena, California. A single man sits to the right on the tracks with his legs dangling off the edge.
photPF 565
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Several men work on top of a railroad trestle bridge of the Los Angeles and San Gabriel Valley Railroad that crosses the wide dry river bed of the Arroyo Seco near Pasadena, California. Loose railroad ties are scattered on either side of the structure.
photPF 569
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A railroad trestle bridge of the Los Angeles and San Gabriel Valley Railroad stretches across the wide dry river bed of the Arroyo Seco near Pasadena, California. A few men stand underneath the structure.
photPF 568
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Fourteen cabinet card photographs depicting the construction and opening of the Los Angeles and San Gabriel Valley Railroad (L.A. & S.G.V.R.R.) in the Los Angeles and Pasadena, California, area in 1885. The images document workers laying the track, railroad bridges (including the wooden trestle bridge across the Arroyo Seco river bed, the exterior and interior of passenger cars, and the Downey Avenue station in Los Angeles, as well as two images related to the opening celebrations of the railroad on September 16, 1885 in Pasadena (photPF 557 and 567). Depicted among the images is the first Pasadena Public Library (photPF 566). Photographs include photographer imprints for E.S. Frost & Son (photPF 556-558, 560-565, 568-569), and J.T. Tuttle & Co. (photPF 559).
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View downstream from check dam and (railroad?) bridge over a stream running through the Arroyo Seco canyon. There is writing on a boulder next to the stream at lower center of image that is mostly illegible but appears to begin "No. 35 The Colorado..."
photCL_555_06_439
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Trees and undergrowth and rocks of the Arroyo Seco.
photCL Pierce 07231
photPF 556-569
