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Shows rail lines of 6 of the railways with service in the Los Angeles to Redondo area, including Southern Pacific Railway and the Atchison Topeka & Santa Fe. Covers the city of Los Angeles with Hollywood and the Santa Monica Mountains to the north; Santa Monica and the coast, including Playa del Rey, Manhattan, Hermosa and Redondo and Gardena to the southeast. Main Street, Los Angeles, serves as the eastern border of the map. Scale not given. Coordinates not present on map, approximated from Google maps. Relief given in hachures. Produced in the period 1903 to 1910 when all of the railways listed were in operation. Provenance unknown, in library as of 2017. Appears to have come from the office of one of Henry E. Huntington's railway companies.
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Hand coloring differentiates then existing cable railway lines and horse-drawn lines. Also electric lines in operation and those proposed, including land acquired for same. Baxter St. to the north, Hoover St. to the west, Lorena St. to the east, Jefferson to the south. Compare this map with 341666, the same map printed four years earlier. Considerable development has occurred during that period including additional public transportation lines. MS note on cover: Mch. 11 92 General Map Cable System Electric System." Cover title: Corran's Map of Los Angeles 1891. Relief: no. Projection: Plane. Printing Process: Lithography.
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Shows streets and prospective electric streetcar lines. The red lines show franchise lines advertised for sale, and have various sale dates between January to May 1903 annotated in pencil. Pending sales are indicated in green. Map was again issued with the subsequent railway lines in place under the title "Map of the City of Los Angeles showing railway system" Covers the city of Los Angeles with the Los Angeles Country Club to the West, Slauson Ave. to the South, the Evergreen Cemetery in Boyle Heights to the East, and Elysian Park to the North. Scale statement on map reads "1320 feet to one inch." Coordinates not present on map, approximated from Google maps. Relief given in hachures. Provenance unknown, in library as of 2017. Appears to have come from the office of one of Henry E. Huntington's railway companies.
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Visual Materials
The Los Angeles Railway (LARy) Corporation collection provides a broad pictorial overview of the development of the railway systems in Los Angeles in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, as well as information on the physical development of the city itself. The collection was compiled by Edwin L. Lewis, a LARy employee for 51 years, as background information for a proposed, unpublished, two-volume history of the Los Angeles railway systems.
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The Los Angeles Railway (LARy) Corporation collection provides a broad pictorial overview of the development of the railway systems in Los Angeles in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, as well as information on the physical development of the city itself. The collection was compiled by Edwin L. Lewis, a LARy employee for 51 years, as background information for a proposed, unpublished, two-volume history of the Los Angeles railway systems.
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Two albums containing ninety-seven photographs, chiefly by amateur photographer S. L. Walkley, of buildings and landscapes in Los Angeles County and San Diego County, California, in 1888. These professional-quality views by Walkley depict newly constructed buildings, street scenes, and the natural landscape, including the flora. These volumes may have been Walkley's own albums as they contain photographs of the construction and finished exterior of his residence on St. John Street in Pasadena, California. The albums include photographs of houses, hotels, streets, and buildings in Pasadena, California and the surrounding towns of Alhambra, San Gabriel, Whittier, and others as well as views of the Arroyo Seco, Little Santa Anita Canyon, Eaton Canyon, and the path to Mount Wilson in the San Gabriel Mountain area. There are photographs of downtown Los Angeles; Hotel del Coronado and Old Town San Diego in San Diego County; and Avalon and Avalon Harbor on Santa Catalina Island. Several photographs show African American trainers with camels and elephants as well as an open circus wagon containing lions (volume 1, items 37-40) These scenes may be associated with the Sells Brothers Circus, which visited Los Angeles in October 1888 (See also volume 2, item 31). There is one photograph of a train labeled "Tia Juana & N.C. & O. Rwy. Train" (volume 1, item 30), presumably referring to the National City & Otay Railroad, a subsidiary of the Santa Fe Railroad, formed in 1886, which connected downtown San Diego with the Sweetwater Dam (San Diego County), La Presa (San Diego County), and Tijuana (Mexico). Two photographs bear the imprint of C.W. Herr and depict street scenes in Provo, Utah and Ogden, Utah (volume 1, items 35 and 36).
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