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Pacific Electric Railroad cars and track

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Pacific Electric Railroad cars and track

Description: 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The collection was compiled by Edwin L. Lewis, a LARy employee for 51 years, as background information for a proposed, unpublished, two-volume history of the Los Angeles railway systems.
Type: Visual Materials(Opens in new tab)
Date: Undated
Call number: photCL 58
Provenance: Donated by Edwin L. Lewis, June 1939.
Associated people: Lewis, Edwin L.
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