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Overview of the Collection
Repository::
The Huntington Library
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA
91108
Phone: 626-405-2180
Email: jwatts@huntington.org
Title:
Pacific Electric Railway Company Photographs
Dates:
ca. 1870s-1950s
Dates:
bulk 1910s-1940s
Quantity:
21.59 linear ft.,
27 boxes
Abstract:
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.
Identification:
photCL 91
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