Author: Spencer Crump
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 116

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Author: William B. Friedricks
Publisher: Ohio State University Press
ISBN: 0814205534
Category : Businessmen
Languages : en
Pages : 264

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Henry E. Huntington, nephew and protégé of Southern Pacific Railroad magnate Collis Huntington, decided to invest his fortune in developing interurban railroads serving the Los Angeles Basin, beginning in 1898 and working through 1920. With enough capital to put railroads where he felt they would work best, he exerted considerable influence on the early growth of Southern California. He also invested in a number of other regional industries, and as an avid collector of rare books and art, he and his second wife Arabella created a notable cultural legacy as well.

Author: Paul A. Smedley
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780870951299
Category : Railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 432

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Author: Donald Duke
Publisher: Gem Guides Book Company
ISBN: 9780870951176
Category : Street-railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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This railroad series chronicles the World's Largest Interurban Electric Systems, developed by Henry Huntington, throughout Southern California.

Author: Jim Walker
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 9780738546889
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 140

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Of the rail lines created at the turn of the 20th century, in order to build interurban links through Southern California communities around metropolitan Los Angeles, the Pacific Electric grew to be the most prominent of all. The Pacific Electric Railway is synonymous with Henry Edwards Huntington, the capitalist with many decades of railroad experience, who formed the "P. E." and expanded it as principal owner for nearly its first decade. Huntington sold his PE holdings to the giant Southern Pacific Railroad in 1910, and the following year the SP absorbed nearly every electric line in the fourcounty area around Los Angeles in the "Great Merger" into a "new" Pacific Electric. Founded in 1901 and terminated in 1965, Pacific Electric was known as the "World's Great Interurban."

Author: Isaac Frederick Marcosson
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 44

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Author: David L. Garcia
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780984624768
Category : Electric railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 254

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Author: Jim Walker
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 9780738547916
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 132

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Local rail-borne transit in Los Angeles began with horsecars in 1874, evolving with cable-powered and later electric-powered passenger vehicles. "Yellow Cars" describes the principal local transit system in and around Los Angeles in the first half of the 20th century. The canary-colored local streetcars formed the inner-neighborhood lines between a vast rail network of main lines known as the "interurban" system, primarily the Pacific Electric Railway "Red Cars," which spiderwebbed throughout Los Angeles County and into Orange, Riverside, and San Bernardino Counties. Rail tycoon Henry Edwards Huntington consolidated several independent lines into this great interurban empire. He sold it in 1910 to the Southern Pacific Railroad, keeping the Los Angeles Railway Yellow Cars. These evocative photographs illustrate travel during decades of change, progress, economic setbacks, war, and postwar retrenchment, when streetcar service was taken over by bus lines.

Author: Spencer Crump
Publisher:
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Category : Local transit
Languages : en
Pages : 248

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Author: James Glisson
Publisher: Huntington Library Press
ISBN: 9780873282680
Category : Nineteen nineteen, A.D.
Languages : en
Pages : 260

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Race riots. Labor strikes. Women's battle for the vote. The aftermath of the Great War. The transformative events and harsh realities of the year 1919 still reverberate a century later. Nineteen Nineteen, published to accompany a centennial exhibition of the Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens in San Marino, California, explores the institution and its founding through the lens of this single, tumultuous year. The fully illustrated catalog features works from The Huntington's vast collections of books, manuscripts, photographs, ephemera, and art, many of them never exhibited or published before.