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[Pacific Electric Railway Company] - PACIFIC ELECTRIC RAILWAY COLLECTION

Title: PACIFIC ELECTRIC RAILWAY COLLECTION
Description: (Los Angeles): Pacific Electric, (n. d.). Ca. 1927 - 1952. Beige paper printed with black & red (broadside & tickets), map with blue and red color illustration to outer covers, black and white illustrated wrappers to pamphlets. 5 items, of varying pages each (2 Broadsides and ticket stubs all single sheets). Blue, red and white illustrations and photographic images within map, black and white photographic images and illustrations in pamphlets. Black and white image reproduced on broadside. Varying sizes. 18" x 6" (broadside), 7-1/2" x 5-1/2" (pamphlets). 21-7/8" x 33-1/8" (map when unfolded). Moderate wear to all items (rubbing and toning to edges). Ticket stubs soiled and perforated, map and pamphlets rubbed and worn at edges. Broadside with one perforated hole to top edge, one 1/4" tear (no losses) to left edge. Withal, a VG collection. Includes: 1 Broadside (printed recto only, n.d. but circa late 1920s/1930s), 1 map of Pacific Electric Lines "In Southern California" (dated August 1947), two black and white photographic informational pamphlets (dated 1952 & 1945), one collection of used ticket stubs (7 and a half) from all over the Pacific Electric Railway (including Joint tickets, Glendale Motor Coach Transfers, the Fairfax Avenue Line, etc. dated 1928 to 1949). As a privately owned, mass transit system, Pacific Electric was probably one of the best-known and most extensive systems in the United States. This Southern California company consisted of streetcars, light rail, and buses - and was the largest electric railway system in the world by the 1920s. The railroad itself was created in 1901 by Henry Huntington (a Vice-President of the Southern Pacific Railroad). Huntington wanted to consolidate travel in Southern California by creating a universal bus, rail and trolley system where tickets could be interchangeable and therefore travel less hectic. While the map details lines in the Pacific Electric system in the late 1940s, the broadside is also extremely interesting. It details the Los Angeles County Fair (presumably sometime in the late 1920s), extolling a Brilliant Night Horse Show, 125 Beautiful Dancers, a Million Dollar Livestock Parade, and a Huge Carnival Zone of Music and Laughter with Thrilling Free Acts. The ticket stubs are perforated and worn, evidence of their use.

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Price: US$ 357.50 Seller: Tavistock Books, ABAA
- Book number: 40366

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