File:Opening day of the Pacific Electric line(?) at the Long Beach Pier, ca.1900-1902 (CHS-1989).jpg

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Opening day of the Pacific Electric line[?] at the Long Beach Pier, ca.1900-1902
Photograph of a celebration for opening day of the Pacific Electric line or of the new pier and pavilion at the Long Beach Pier, ca.1900-1902. Throngs of people crowd the street and pier which reaches out into the ocean toward a steamship. Rail tracks are visible in the street with electric lines directly above. Many American flags are waving. Legible signs include: "Grand ocean excursion in the steamship Hermosa to yacht and launch races, breakwater and night parade, H. Browne, agt."
Call number: CHS-1989
Filename: CHS-1989
Coverage date: circa 1900/1902
Part of collection: California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960
Format: glass plate negatives
Type: images
Geographic subject (city or populated place): Long Beach; Long Beach
Repository name: USC Libraries Special Collections
Accession number: 1989
Microfiche number: 1-32-
Archival file: chs_Volume51/CHS-1989.tiff
Part of subcollection: Title Insurance and Trust, and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection, 1860-1960
Repository address: Doheny Memorial Library, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0189
Geographic subject (country): USA
Format (aacr2): 2 photographs : photonegative, glass photonegative, b&w ; 10 x 13 cm., 17 x 22 cm.
Rights: Digitally reproduced by the USC Digital Library; From the California Historical Society Collection at the University of Southern California
Subject (adlf): piers
Project: USC
Repository email: specol@usc.edu
Contributing entity: California Historical Society
Date created: circa 1900/1902
Publisher (of the digital version): University of Southern California. Libraries
Format (aat): negatives (photographic); photographs
Geographic subject (state): California
Subject (file heading): Long Beach -- General -- Pike and pier
Legacy record ID: chs-m5842; USC-1-1-1-5950
Access conditions: Send requests to address or e-mail given. Phone (213) 821-2366; fax (213) 740-2343.
Geographic subject (county): Los Angeles
Subject (lcsh): Piers; Electric railroads
Subject: Long Beach; Long Beach (LA) -- General Views (Pier and Pike)
Date circa 1900
date QS:P,+1900-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902
/1902 (date created)
Source http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/ref/collection/p15799coll65/id/5856
Author Unknown authorUnknown author

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