Close
Home
Collections
Login
USC Login
Register
0
Selected
Invert selection
Deselect all
Deselect all
Click here to refresh results
Click here to refresh results
USC
/
Digital Library
/
California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960
/
Title Insurance and Trust and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection 1860-1960
/
Trolley in front of the Florence Hotel in San Diego, ca.1888
(USC DC Image)
Trolley in front of the Florence Hotel in San Diego, ca.1888
Loading details...
You do not have the permission to view Original image
Download
Share
Copy Asset Link
Request this asset
Linked assets
Title Insurance and Trust and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection 1860-1960
Conceptually similar
An electric motor-driven car of San Diego Electric Rapid Transit, 1885-1888
View of San Diego looking southwest from the Florence Hotel, ca.1888
Guests sitting on the veranda of the Florence Hotel in San Diego, ca.1888
Hotel Del Coronado, San Diego, ca.1888
Exterior view of San Diego's Hotel Del Coronado from the ocean, ca.1888
Exterior view of the Hotel at Ocean Beach in San Diego, ca.1890
San Diego's Hotel Del Coronado surrounded by a massive tent city, ca.1888
Hotel Del Coronado, San Diego, from the patio, ca.1900
Double-decker street car in San Diego, ca.1903
An Early horse car at foot of Fifth Avenue in San Diego, ca.1888
San Diego Cable Railway cable car, ca.1898-1912
Hotel Del Coronado, San Diego, from the ocean, ca.1900
San Diego's first streetcar, 1886
Exterior view of San Diego's Horton House, ca.1890
Close-up view of Pacific Electric hotel trolley car, ca.1900
Exterior view of San Francisco's St. Francis Hotel, ca. 1905
Drawing of the exterior of San Francisco's Palace Hotel, ca.1890
Court (patio) of Hotel Del Coronado, San Diego, ca.1900
Hotel Julian in San Diego, California, ca.1928-1930
The "Dummy" line (?), a San Diego and Pacific Beach railroad car, ca.1890
Similar tones
View images with similar tones
Description
Photograph of a trolley in front of the Florence Hotel in San Diego, ca.1888. There are three buildings that make up the hotel; all of them are long rectangular buildings with white wooden siding and flat roofs. The small trolley is in the foreground on a dirt road and there are several people inside of it. A sign on the front of the trolley reads "P.C.S.S. Wharf & University Heights". "Note the Electric Rapid Transit Company car has trolley pull on the roof. The wire being hooked from the car roof to the trolley wire". Photoprint reads: "San Diego Rapid Transit Electric Co. has no trolly pole on roof, the wire being looped from the car roof to the trolley wire".
Asset Metadata
Title
Trolley in front of the Florence Hotel in San Diego, ca.1888
Subject
buildings
(adlf),
Electric railroads
(lcsh),
Florence Hotel
(subject),
Hotels, taverns, etc.
(lcsh),
Railroads
(lcsh),
San Diego County -- San Diego -- Architecture
(file heading),
Transportation -- Street Railroads -- General -- Outside L.A. County
(file heading),
Views
(lcsh)
Tags
OAI-PMH Harvest
Place
4th Street & Fir Street
(roadway),
California
(states),
San Diego
(city or populated place),
San Diego
(counties),
USA
(countries)
Temporal Subject
1888
Type
images
Format
2 photographs : photonegative, photoprint, b&w ; 21 x 26 cm.
(aacr2),
negatives (photographic)
(aat),
photographic prints
(aat),
photographs
(aat)
Source
California Historical Society
(contributing entity),
California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960
(collection),
Title Insurance and Trust, and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection, 1860-1960
(subcollection)
Date Created
1888
Publisher
University of Southern California. Libraries
(digital)
Repository Email
specol@lib.usc.edu
Repository Name
USC Libraries Special Collections
Repository Location
Doheny Memorial Library, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0189
Rights
Public Domain. Please credit both “University of Southern California. Libraries” and “California Historical Society” as the source. Digitally reproduced by the USC Digital Library.
Permanent Link (DOI)
https://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m8744
Identifier
10127 (
accession number
), CHS-10127 (
call number
), CHS-10127 (
filename
), chs-m265 (
legacy collection record id
), chs-m8744 (
legacy record id
), USC-1-1-1-8876 (
legacy record id
), USC-1-1-1-12762 (
legacy record id
), chs-c65-9116 (
legacy record id
), 1-120-83 (
microfiche number
), USC (
project
)
IIIF ID
[Document.IIIFV3ID]
DM Record ID
9116
Unique identifier
UC138680
Legacy Identifier
CHS-10127.tiff
Type
Image
Internet Media Type
image/tiff
Resolution
20.2 in × 16.4 in at 300dpi
51.3 cm × 41.6 cm at 300dpi
Inherited Values
Title
Title Insurance and Trust and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection 1860-1960
Date Created
1860 to 1960