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Railway passengers to Echo Mountain and other Southern California views

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Description: Four photographs adhered to an album page. The photographs show, from top left: Mission ruins, unidentified location; bells near wooden church building, Old Town, San Diego; passengers in the Mount Lowe Railway mountain incline, coming to Echo Mountain, located in the San Gabriel mountains above Pasadena, California (sign at top of photograph says "Echo Mountain"); two palm trees and man in horse and buggy.
Type: Visual Materials(Opens in new tab)
Date: approximately 1880-1910
Call number: photCL_555_01_900
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Passengers on incline railway to Echo Mountain

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Passengers on a portion of the Mount Lowe Railway cable car incline to Echo Mountain located in the San Gabriel mountains above Pasadena, California. A sign at right says "Echo Mountain 3500 feet above sea level" and the car says "Echo" across the front. A Pacific Electric streetcar is also seen at right. The domed building in the distance is the Mount Lowe Observatory with a telescope on Echo Mountain.

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Echo Brand

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Image of a cable car at the Rubio Pavilion Station with passengers in an open cable car ascending the Echo Mountain Cable Incline.

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View of Pasadena from Echo Mountain House

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People standing on balcony of Echo Mountain House, a hotel at the top of Echo Mountain, looking at panoramic view of Pasadena, California.

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Mount Lowe Railway Construction Photographs

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A set of 52 card photographs by photographer William Henry Hill documenting the construction, opening, and early years of the Mount Lowe Railroad in the San Gabriel Mountains above Pasadena, California, in the 1890s. Views include mountain scenery and waterfalls; the building of the incline and other portions of the railway, with images of construction workers; people at building sites on Echo Mountain and Mount Lowe prior to and during construction; groups of people at camps or on trails in the mountains, sometimes on horses or mules and on snow-covered ground; winding machinery and cable; decorated electric cars filled with passengers at the opening ceremony, July 4, 1893; the first passenger cars leaving Mountain Junction in Altadena for Rubio Canyon and ascending the great incline; Rubio Canyon and Rubio Glen, Castle Rock, Castle Canyon, Eaton Canyon, and Grand Canyon; a hotel annex on Echo Mountain; the original mule corral on Echo Mountain; a reception of the California Press and Editorial Association at the residence of Professor Thaddeus Lowe; and the Pasadena Board of Trade Directors arriving at the top of a snowy Mount Lowe in January, 1897. Also included are photographic reproductions of a drawing of the Echo Mountain Hotel, of a mechanical drawing showing the arrangement of winding gear on an incline, and of a map of the site and environs. People of regional and national significance who appear in various pictures include Professor Thaddeus Lowe; chief engineer David J. Macpherson; Theodore Parker Lukens; Judge Benjamin Eaton; George Wharton James; Clarence S. Martin; and Harvard College president Charles William Eliot and party, on occasion of Eliot's visit to Pasadena and Mount Wilson, April 7-8, 1892. Notably, there are at least two photographs that include images of Jason Brown, a son of abolitionist John Brown (Items 19 and 19A). Many photographs have photograph numbers and typed or handwritten captions on the image from the original negative.

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Echo Mt. and valley

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View from Mount Lowe in the San Gabriel Mountains on the buildings of the Echo Mountain House hotel, at left, and the Mt. Lowe Observatory, at right, on Echo Mountain, with the city of Pasadena, California, and the San Gabriel Valley below.

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Views of Southern California including the San Gabriel Mountains and San Diego County

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5 snapshots taken by Mary Augusta Nailen in 1925 of the Pacific Electric Railroad at Mount Lowe and Echo Mountain and the chapel at Switzer's Falls in the San Gabriel Mountains, and 4 photographic postcards depicting various tourist sites in the San Gabriel Mountains, Pasadena, and San Diego County, California. Includes one photographic postcard depicting East Green Street, Pasadena, looking East from Los Robles, 1930 (photPF 20066); one photograph of an automobile stage on road to Mount Wilson (photPF 20067); two photographic postcards by Frashers Foto, Pomona of the Old Spanish Light House, Point Loma, Calif., ca. 1931 (photPF 20068-20069); and one photographic postcard shows the highway in Encinitas, California, ca. 1929 (photPF 20070).

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