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Passengers on incline railway to Echo Mountain

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Description: 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.
Type: Visual Materials(Opens in new tab)
Date: 1915-1925
Call number: photCL_555_01_908
Find out more: View in the Huntington Digital Library(Opens in new tab); View in the Library catalog

Railway passengers to Echo Mountain and other Southern California views

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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.

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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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Pasadena from Echo Mt. showing Santa Catalina Island

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View of the San Gabriel Valley including the city of Pasadena, California, as seen from the San Gabriel Mountains, with the Mount Lowe Observatory visible at right in the foreground and buildlings including the Pacific Electric Railway power station of Mt. Lowe Railroad and the ruins of the Echo Mountain House hotel, which was destroyed by fire in 1900, visible on Echo Mountain at left.

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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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Mount Lowe Railway souvenir album

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A souvenir album of 12 photographs, 3 1/4 x 4 inches each, mounted on paper, dating from approximately 1894 to 1900. The back inside cover is stamped "From Mount Lowe Ry. Photo. Dept., Echo Mountain P. O., Cal." Views show the railway winding up the mountain, a massive searchlight at the top of Echo Mountain, scenic views, and the Echo Mountain House exteriors and interior lobby.

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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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Passengers on incline railway to Echo Mountain

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