Collection context
Summary
- Creators:
- Mount Lowe Railway
- Abstract:
- A souvenir photograph album of the Mount Lowe Railway, a tourist line to Echo Mountain and Mount Lowe in the San Gabriel Mountains, California.
- Extent:
- 1 Volume (12 photographs)
- Language:
- Materials are in English.
- Preferred citation:
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Mount Lowe Railway souvenir album, The Huntington Library, San Marino, California.
Background
- Scope and content:
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A souvenir album of 12 photographs, 3 1/4 x 4 inches each, mounted on paper, dating from approximately 1894 to 1900. The back inside cover is stamped "From Mount Lowe Ry. Photo. Dept., Echo Mountain P. O., Cal." Views show the railway winding up the mountain, a massive searchlight at the top of Echo Mountain, scenic views, and the Echo Mountain House exteriors and interior lobby.
- Biographical / historical:
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The Mount Lowe Railway was a scenic tourist line that opened in 1894 to bring visitors to the San Gabriel Mountains above Altadena and Pasadena, California. A portion of the railway was a cable-driven funicular, the Incline Railway from Rubio Pavilion to a hotel called the Echo Mountain House, which opened in 1894 at the summit of Echo Mountain. A narrow-gauge trolley carried travelers on the route from Echo Mountain to Mount Lowe.
- Acquisition information:
- Purchased from Cherokee Bookstore, December 1977.
- Processing information:
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Cataloged by Huntington Library staff, late-20th century. In 2021, Suzanne Oatey created a finding aid.
- Rules or conventions:
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
Indexed terms
- Subjects:
- Hotels -- California
Street-railroads -- California -- Los Angeles -- History
Railroads, Cable -- California -- Lowe, Mount (Los Angeles County)
Tourism -- California
Outdoor recreation -- California -- San Gabriel Mountains
Photographs
Photograph albums - Places:
- San Gabriel Mountains (Calif.) -- Recreational use
Access and use
- Restrictions:
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Open for use by qualified researchers and by appointment. Please contact Reader Services at the Huntington Library for more information.
- Terms of access:
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The Huntington Library does not require that researchers request permission to quote from or publish images of this material, nor does it charge fees for such activities. The responsibility for identifying the copyright holder, if there is one, and obtaining necessary permissions rests with the researcher.
- Preferred citation:
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Mount Lowe Railway souvenir album, The Huntington Library, San Marino, California.
- Location of this collection:
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1151 Oxford RoadSan Marino, CA 91108, US
- Contact:
- (626) 405-2129