Mt. Lowe Railway, cable incline – Historic Reproduction
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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A window into the past: Mt. Lowe Railway, cable incline, preserved in this historic photograph. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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Mt. Lowe Railway, cable incline
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The cable incline on Mount Lowe, in the San Gabriel Mountains above Pasadena, was the steepest part of a route built to carry visitors from the valley floor to the Echo Mountain resort. Thaddeus Lowe, a balloonist who had used aerial reconnaissance during the Civil War, developed the line in the early 1890s, and the cars were hauled up the grade by cable. Detroit Photographic Co. issued views like this one for tourists, who came to see both the mountain scenery and the engineering that made it reachable. The image shows how the track was laid straight up the slope, which explains why the ride was as much a spectacle as a means of travel.
| Created / published | c1899. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print mounted on thin mat : cyanotype ; image 43.2 x 53.2 cm. |
| Notes | Detroit Photographic Co." Listed in Detroit |
| Subjects | Mount Lowe Railway. Inclined railroads. Mountains.United States--California--Los Angeles County--Lowe, Mount. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,119 × 1,417 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-219290 |
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