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Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
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Contains 1 map. Handle with care, fragile and brittle.
mssHEH
![Map of the City of Los Angeles: [showing weight of rails laid]](/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Frail.huntington.org%2FIIIF3%2FImage%2F22APN4635XVA%2Ffull%2F%5E360%2C%2F0%2Fdefault.jpg&w=750&q=75)
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Shows streets and prospective electric streetcar lines in red and black. Probably dates before 1903 as the rail lines are not named. Legend gives weights of rails laid. 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. "H.E.H." are the initials of Henry E. Huntington, who owned the Pacific Electric Railway Company. 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
Map of Southern California showing the early transmission line corridors belonging to Pacific Light and Power, Southern California Edison and Southern Sierras Power Co. before the time of Edison's acquisition of PL&P. No number originally assigned by Cal. Electric and - no documentation included.
photCL SCE 07 - 00036
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Points of Interest at the bottom of the map covers every known tourist attraction and sales job for Southern California. Prime meridian: GM. Relief: hachures. Projection: Cylindrical. Printing Process: Lithography. Verso Text: Sticker: 492489.
492489
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Map showing early transmission line corridors in southern California for Southern Sierras Power Co., Pacific Light & Power, and Southern California Edison.
photCL SCE 07 - 02447