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Los Angeles Electric Railway Company, first electric street railroad in Los Angeles, opening day
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Los Angeles Electric Railway Company, first electric street railroad in Los Angeles, from Plaza to Pico Heights
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Passengers aboard and boarding early street cars with a separate electric locomotives.
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Los Angeles Electric Railway Company, first electric street railroad in Los Angeles, the Pico Heights electric car
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Passengers on an early street car with a with a separate electric locomotive.
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Los Angeles Electric Railway Company, first electric street railroad in Los Angeles, from Plaza to Pico & Alvarado Streets
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Passengers standing on an early street car with a separate electric locomotive in front.
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Santa Monica, opening day of Pacific Electric Railroad, April 1, 1896
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Image of a crowd of passengers standing in front of a Pacific Electric streetcar on a dirt road after disembarking from the first electric train to arrive in Santa Monica, California, on April 1, 1896.
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Photographs of Pacific Electric Railway Company, Los Angeles Railway, and miscellaneous Los Angeles and Seattle, Washington, views
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A collection of 25 photographs, most likely compiled by railroad electrical engineer Samuel Horace Anderson, with an emphasis on early transportation innovations and technologies. The group includes railway-related images in Los Angeles, California, as well as a few from Seattle, Washington (items 3-7); views of various trolley cars of the Pacific Electric Railway and Los Angeles Railway; Barn No. 1 of the Los Angeles Railway with six horse-drawn tower cars lined up in front of the building (item 10); two photographs of a man in an automobile captioned "1910, Mr. Taber & demonstrating his patent wind-shield on Mr. S. Horace Anderson's 1908 Franklin" (items 14-15); views of inventor Joseph Fawke's "Aerial Swallow," an experimental, propeller-driven monorail which was built in Burbank in 1911 or 1912 (items 16-18); a 1918 commercial photograph of two men with a giant swordfish at Catalina Island (item 20); and two photographs of a Chutes amusement park water ride (also known as Washington Garden, at Washington and Grand in Los Angeles) (items 21-22). There are also some recreational group portraits as well as a studio portrait of S. Horace Anderson (Item 1), who also appears to be present in the group photograph taken in Hot Springs, Arkansas (Item 25).
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Proposed Arcade Railway. : Under Broadway, view near Wall Street
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Image of an eye-level street view of Broadway near Wall Street in New York City, lined with commercial buildings, showing a busy street scene with pedestrians and horse-drawn carriages, elevated above a section of an underground railway with train cars and waiting passengers.
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