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

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  Rush hour, 1910-style, shows Los Angeles Railway and Pacific Electric trolleys lined up for three blocks on Seventh Street

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  Rush hour, 1910-style, shows Los Angeles Railway and Pacific Electric trolleys lined up for three blocks on Seventh Street. [COURTESY OF HUNTINGTON LIBRARY] Pg. 55.

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  Century Chevrolet Used Cars, with electric trolley lines on street

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  Miscellaneous. Mount Lowe trolley; Tournament of Roses day; Glendale; Trolley cars; Hollywood subway; 6th and Main Street station; Subway Terminal Building

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  The collection consists of 3396 black and white photographs (many with corresponding original and copy negatives), 116 unprinted glass plate negatives, memos, correspondence, press releases, and notes related to the Pacific Electric Railway, ca. 1870s-1950s. The collection provides a comprehensive overview of the routes and areas served by the Railway during the years of its operation, and thus a picture of the growth of Southern California during the first half of the twentieth century. The images include views of landscape along, and towns served by, the Pacific Electric routes, including Central Los Angeles; Pacific Electric track and stations; Pacific Electric advertising, publicity, and public relations photographs; Los Angeles and surrounding area parks; Pacific Electric employees and employee activities; construction of Pacific Electric facilities, such as the Hollywood subway, the 6th and Main Street terminal, and the Subway Terminal Building; and Pacific Electric trolley cars and buses.

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  Miscellaneous. Mount Lowe trolley; Tournament of Roses day; Glendale; Trolley cars; Hollywood subway; 6th and Main Street station; Subway Terminal Building

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  The collection consists of 3396 black and white photographs (many with corresponding original and copy negatives), 116 unprinted glass plate negatives, memos, correspondence, press releases, and notes related to the Pacific Electric Railway, ca. 1870s-1950s. The collection provides a comprehensive overview of the routes and areas served by the Railway during the years of its operation, and thus a picture of the growth of Southern California during the first half of the twentieth century. The images include views of landscape along, and towns served by, the Pacific Electric routes, including Central Los Angeles; Pacific Electric track and stations; Pacific Electric advertising, publicity, and public relations photographs; Los Angeles and surrounding area parks; Pacific Electric employees and employee activities; construction of Pacific Electric facilities, such as the Hollywood subway, the 6th and Main Street terminal, and the Subway Terminal Building; and Pacific Electric trolley cars and buses.

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  Exterior and street scene with cars, trolleys

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  The Bullock's Department Store Collection consists of 680 photographs, 2 boxes of ephemera related to Bullock's publicity and events, and 29 glass plate negatives, 1905-1971. It focuses primarily on the retail spaces, displays, departments, and employees at the downtown Los Angeles store once located at Broadway, 7th, and Hill Streets. The photographs document the various functions associated with the store including the full range of departments; window displays; store merchandising; employee activities and gatherings; children's parties and parades; advertising billboards; the August sales event and crowds; and construction scenes from 1912 and 1928. Photographers include Warren Bowen Studios; Brown and Warrington; Dubois Photo Co.; Frank C. Elliott; Jim England; Graham Photo; Keystone Photo; J.C. Milligan; Ernest Pratt; Otto Rothschild; Stagg Photography; Art Streib; "Dick" Whittington Studio; Whitland Locke Commercial Photography; and Witzel Photo.

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  Transportation - Streets Railways

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  Approx. 10 items: photocopy of 1889 event -- opening of cable car line to Boyle Heights ; photocopy of 1902 scene -- a horse-drawn trolley in Echo Park, 1902 ; LAT article copy, 6/9/1889, opening of Los Angele Cable Railway ; LAT article copy, 12/16/1911, "Links of Steel to a new city," on Pacific Electric line to Van Nuys ; LAT clips from 1930, 1933 on various aspects of street railway operations ; four 1988 flyers related to the history of rail / streetcar service in Los Angeles, 1880s to 1960s ; article copy, Southern California Quarterly, Fall 1987, "America's electric railway beginnings ... trolleys and daft dummies in Los Angeles."

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