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Manuscripts
Enclosed in: letter from Hellman to Henry E. Huntington, 1901 September 12. Also: statements of repair expenses, receipts and disbursements for Temple Street Cable Railway Company.
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Rare Books
A treatise on wire rope powered street and other railway systems. Historic recount of cable traction for various transport systems including aerial ropeways. Detailed account of cable powered street railway systems in major cities of the world. (CFD).
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Visual Materials
Image of a parade scene on Hill Street between Fifth Street and Sixth Street in downtown Los Angeles, California, showing spectators and people on horseback watching a float showing a cable railway on a mountain. This may be a depiction of the Mount Lowe Railway included in the 1894 La Fiesta de Los Angeles parade. The large building with towers beyond the trees is Hazard's Pavilion (located at Fifth Street and Olive Street) and the Leonard J. Rose Mansion can be seen on the hillside of Bunker Hill.
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Visual Materials
Various cabinet card photographs of Los Angeles, including a series of four images showing digging and laying track for the First Street cable railway in central Los Angeles (Boyle Heights), 1880s. Other photographs in this folder: Grounds of J. M. Workman, Boyle Heights; panoramic view of Los Angeles from the road to San Gabriel by Carleton Watkins; view of Los Angeles Railway Company car on Fifth Street, Los Angeles; Ostrich Farm; image of various Native American water baskets, taken by photographer Jarvis, Pasadena, California.
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Visual Materials
View looking west on Temple Street, showing houses, empty lots and a large building on the hill to the right.
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Image of the corner of East 1st Street and Los Angeles Street in downtown Los Angeles, California, with a streetcar on an Angelino Heights route visible on 1st St., at left. Visible building signs including: "New England Hand Laundry," "California's Best Beer. Wieland's Extra Pale Lager," "Kennedy & Adair Employment Agency" (partially covering a "'Chicago ... Counter" sign), "Advance Machine Co.," and "Blake, Moffitt & Towne."
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