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Temple Street Cable Railway, Los Angeles

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Description: Passengers on streetcars of the Temple Street Cable Railway, which says "Spring, Temple & City Limits" across top and "Temple St. Cable Ry." across the bottom, near downtown Los Angeles, California. The car is stopped in front of the powerhouse for the Temple Street Cable Railway located at the northwest corner of Temple Street and East Edgeware Road in Angelino Heights.
Type: Visual Materials(Opens in new tab)
Date: 1891
Call number: photCL_555_01_354
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Temple Street Cable Railway Company letter to Isaias W. Hellman

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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A treatise upon cable or rope traction, as applied to the working of street and other railways

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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Parade with mountain railway float on Hill Street, Los Angeles

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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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Photographs of track laying for the Los Angeles Cable Railway in Boyle Heights and other views in Los Angeles

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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Temple Street, Los Angeles

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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East 1st Street and Los Angeles Street, Los Angeles

Visual Materials

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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Temple Street Cable Railway, Los Angeles

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