Mt. Lowe, California, 1907 – Historic Photo 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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Step back in time with Mt. Lowe, California, 1907, a historic image rich in period detail. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
Library of Congress record: Southern California as seen from Mt. Lowe, 1907
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Mt. Lowe, California, 1907
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Mount Lowe, in the San Gabriel Mountains above Pasadena, California, was in 1907 a mountain resort built around the Mount Lowe Railway, which the balloonist and engineer Thaddeus S. Lowe had begun in the early 1890s. Visitors rode electric cars up steep grades, including the Great Incline, to reach the Echo Mountain House hotel and the observatory and its large telescope, and many came from Los Angeles and Pasadena for cool summer air and mountain views. The railway depended on the region's booming tourist trade, which had grown rapidly during the Southern California land boom of the 1880s and the citrus-driven growth of the San Gabriel Valley. The resort was a point of local pride, and the scene it recorded was one of a new leisure economy taking shape alongside orange groves and the growing cities below.
| Created / published | 1907 |
|---|---|
| Creator | california panorama co. |
| Notes | Panoramic photograph. |
| Subjects | Panoramic photographs--California |
| Source | Library of Congress, Panoramic Photographs |
| Original scan | 5,400 × 973 px · prints to 18 × 3 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Southern California as seen from Mt. Lowe, 1907 |
| Reference | CA Mt. Lowe 1907 |
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