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Train departure, Los Angeles. 1926

Description: Men, women, and children stand on and around a train about to depart from Los Angeles. This part of the Union Pacific train, known as the 63 hour car, was traveling from Los Angeles to Chicago. The people are wearing their Sunday best and waving hats and handkerchiefs at each other. A round sign mounted on the back railing of the car reads "Los Angeles Limited".
Type: Visual Materials(Opens in new tab)
Date: 1926
Call number: photCL Whitt 1509 ; Whitt neg. 0088
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Los Angeles Times building construction, Spring between 1st and 2nd, Los Angeles. 1946

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A street view of the Los Angeles Times Building, on Spring between 1st and 2nd in Los Angeles, during construction. A sign on the side of the construction site reads "P.J. Walker Company Builders". There are two trucks with stacks of pipes on the flatbeds parked next to the building and a street car at the far right. The adjacent building also belongs to the L.A. Times.

photCL Whitt 1225 ; Whitt neg. 1456

Motorcycle fleet, Paul G. Hoffman Company, Los Angeles. 1939

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Three men dressed in white shirts, black pants, ties, and hats stand next to service motorcycles for the Paul G. Hoffman Company, an automobile dealership with locations at 903 West 7th and 1400 South Figueroa in Los Angeles. The motorcycles have the company name and the Studebaker logo painted on the front windscreen.

photCL Whitt 2702 ; Whitt neg. 2708

Riviera Tract, Pacific Palisades, Los Angeles. 1926

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A street view of the office of the Frank Meline Co. in the California Riviera section of Pacific Palisades, Los Angeles. Five automobiles are parked in front of the office and six men are standing in pairs on the steps and the driveway in front of the building.

photCL Whitt 0659 ; Whitt neg. 0065

View of rush hour shows Los Angeles Railway trolley cars lined up on East Seventh Street

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Los Angeles' streets were still dominated by the trolley car when Dave Redinger opened a private engineering practice early in 1914. This view of rush hour shows Los Angeles Railway trolley cars lined up on East Seventh Street, waiting their turn to cross the equally busy Main Street. All of these trolleys, and much of downtown Los Angeles, was receiving electricity from the new Big Creek power plants.

photCL SCE 12 - 00048

Passenger train, Los Angeles and Independence Railroad

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Image of Locomotive No. 1 and passenger cars of the Los Angeles and Independence Railroad on train tracks next to the railroad's terminal at Fifth Street and San Pedro Street in Los Angeles, California.

photCL_555_01_350

Southern Pacific Railroad lines and Alameda St., Los Angeles. 1930

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A freight train of the Southern Pacific Railroad Company travels down tracks next to Alameda Street in Los Angeles. Automobiles going in both directions past businesses, such as the California Milling Corporation.

photCL Whitt 1516 ; Whitt neg. 0465

Train departure, Los Angeles. 1926

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