Construction site for the expansion of the Pacific Electric Railroad, Los Angeles, 1925

Item Overview

Title

Construction site for the expansion of the Pacific Electric Railroad, Los Angeles, 1925

Date Created

1925

Date

1925

Publisher

Los Angeles Times

Collection

Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Notes

Description

Possibly related to the article, "Utility Invests Millions in Future of Southland: Pacific Electric Progress Program to Care for Increased Growth Amounts to $10,500,000," Los Angeles Times, 11 Jan. 1925: E4.
Two men in suits and straw hats, one holding rolled up papers, stand and confer in an area of dirt and broken pavement at the site where the Pacific Electric Hill Street Station had recently stood (on Hill St., between 4th and 5th Streets). Directly behind them on the left are a surveyor looking through the telescope of a theodolite on a tripod with a man in a straw hat crouching beneath him. A steam shovel and several spouts of smoke are in the center middle ground, the storage yard is visible on the right, and tall commercial buildings are in the background. Hill Street is directly behind the photographer.

Caption

Text from negative sleeve: Pacific Electric R.R., 1925

Physical Description

Extent

1 photograph

Medium

b&w nitrate negative

Keywords

Genre

cellulose nitrate film
news photographs

Names

Pacific Electric Railway Company

Location

Los Angeles (Calif.)

Resource type

still image

Subjects

Electric railroads--California--Los Angeles
Surveyors--California--Los Angeles
Street railroads--California--Los Angeles