Cable Cars, Downey Avenue, now North Broadway

Description: A view of a cable car filled with passengers on Downey Ave. (now N. Broadway).
Type: Visual Materials(Opens in new tab)
Date: 1887
Call number: photCL Pierce 00185
Find out more: View in the Huntington Digital Library(Opens in new tab); View in the Library catalog(Opens in new tab)

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