Fisher Electric railway system photographs

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  Photographs of track laying for the Los Angeles Cable Railway in Boyle Heights and other views in Los Angeles

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  Various cabinet card photographs of Los Angeles, including a series of four images showing digging and laying track for the First Street cable railway in central Los Angeles (Boyle Heights), 1880s. Other photographs in this folder: Grounds of J. M. Workman, Boyle Heights; panoramic view of Los Angeles from the road to San Gabriel by Carleton Watkins; view of Los Angeles Railway Company car on Fifth Street, Los Angeles; Ostrich Farm; image of various Native American water baskets, taken by photographer Jarvis, Pasadena, California.

  photPF 610-619

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  Pacific Electric Railway Company Photographs

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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. The views along the Pacific Electric routes include beach communities such as San Pedro, Long Beach, Newport Beach, Redondo Beach, Laguna Beach, Venice, Ocean Park and Santa Monica. These images include views of the coastline, the towns, and the amusement areas of Long Beach, Redondo Beach, Venice, and Ocean Park. Also included are many photographs of Mount Lowe—the cable incline railway, the trolley up to Ye Alpine Tavern, the Tavern itself, and the Mount Lowe Tavern. The Riverside, San Bernardino, and Orange County views document the landscape and popular sites in and around the towns served by the Railway; these include the Glenwood Mission Inn and Rubidoux Drive summit. Also of note are the photographs documenting activities of Pacific Electric employees, including construction of and activities in the Pacific Electric Club and outings sponsored by the Railway; and the construction of the Pacific Electric and Subway Terminal Buildings.

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  Carleton Watkins photographs of Santa Monica wharf, hotel and bath house

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  Early photographs of Santa Monica, showing the Santa Monica Hotel with railroad tracks visible in the foreground; the wharf and railroad cars on tracks at the end; landscape views showing the beach, canyon, bathers, bath house, and bluff. All are card photographs imprinted "From Watkins' Yosemite art gallery..." One unrelated photograph (photPF 600) of a drinking fountain in Alum Rock Park, San Jose, also in this folder.

  photPF 600-609

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  Los Angeles and Mount Washington Railway and other photographs

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  Copy photographs of incline railway to Mount Washington in Los Angeles; Mount Washington Hotel; and sign on railway station, approximately 1910s. Also in this folder, three unrelated cabinet card photographs of California missions: man on horse in front of Mission Santa Barbara by Hayward & Muzzall; San Fernando Mission and adobe structures by Carleton Watkins; and vertical view of steps of San Gabriel Mission.

  photPF 1034-1040

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  Cabinet card photograph of Ortega family members and other photographs

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  A studio portrait photograph dated 1884 of Maria Casimira Pico Ortega (1804-1894), (sister of Governor Pio Pico); her daughter Maria del Refugio Ortega (1823–1918), and the daughter’s son, Alfredo Stokes (b. 1840). Alfredo's father (not pictured) was Edward Stokes. Also in this folder are unrelated snapshots of the Grand Canyon and other scenery, 1903.

  photPF 2340-2349

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  Photographs of American occupation of Veracruz, Mexico

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  Twenty photographs (5 x 7 inches) documenting the U.S. military occupation of Veracruz during the Mexican Revolution. Images show sailors posed in groups, fighting in the streets with rifles, stockpiles of guns, the dock, officials, and dead bodies in Veracruz, 1914. Includes letter explaining provenance of photographs. This folder also contains two unrelated photographs of a Pacific Mail Steamship Company ship heading to Japan and Hong Kong, 1916.

  photPF 2250-2271