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Largest searchlight in the world on Echo Mount, Calif.
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Largest searchlight in the world on Echo Mount, Calif.
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Description
Identifier
clloy_177
Title
Largest
searchlight
in the
world
on
Echo
Mount
,
Calif
.
Creator
Unknown
Date Published
circa
1910
Subject (Topic)
Searchlights--California--Los
Angeles
;
Mountains--California--Los
Angeles
;
Subject (Place)
Echo
Mountain
(Los
Angeles
County
,
Calif.)
;
Type
image
Form/Genre
Postcards
Physical Description
1
postcard
:
Color
;
9
x
14
cm
.
Institution
Department
of
Archives
and
Special
Collections
,
William
H
.
Hannon
Library
,
Loyola
Marymount
University
Country of Creation
DE
Copyright Status
public
domain
Copyright Statement
http://library.lmu.edu/generalinformation/departments/digitallibraryprogram/copyrightandreproductionpolicy/
Publisher
Pacific
Novelty
Company
Place of Publication
San
Francisco
,
Cal
.
Language
eng
Description
A
man
stands
next
to a
large
searchlight
on a
platform
on
top
of
Echo
Mountain
in
Los
Angeles
,
California
. A
reflection
of the
Echo
Mountain
House
is
visible
in the
lens
of the
searchlight
. The
landscape
below
is
largely
undeveloped
farmland
.
Historical Background
Shortly
after
retiring
to
Los
Angeles
in the
1880s
,
Thaddeus
Lowe
began
construction
on the
Mount
Lowe
Railway
,
which
wound
for
nearly
seven
miles
around
Mount
Lowe
and
Echo
Mountain
. The
track
ended
at the
summit
of
Echo
Mountain
,
where
tourists
could
visit
an
observatory
,
casino
and
dance
hall
, or
stay
at
one
of
several
hotels
. In
1893
,
Lowe
purchased
a
three
million
candlepower
searchlight
from the
Columbian
Exposition
held
in
Chicago
. In
1894
,
Lowe
installed
on
Echo
Mountain
a
three
million
candlepower
searchlight
purchased
from the
Columbian
Exposition
held
in
Chicago
. The
searchlight's
reflecting
mirror
wass
60
inches
in
diameter
, and was
manufactured
by
Mangin
, in
Paris
,
France
. The
beam
from the
light
had a
35-mile
projection
, and was
advertised
as
being
able
to
illuminate
the
island
of
Catalina
from its
mountain
perch
.
Residents
announcing
their
birthdays
could
have the
light
shone
on their
homes
in the
evening
. By the
1930s
,
however
, the
light
was
considered
a
public
nuisance
and was
shut
off
permanently
.
Additional Printed Matter
On back: "Quality Series"
Publisher's Identifier
Publisher's serial number: No. 847
Additional Notes
Approximate
date
from
postmark
;
Made
in
Germany
.
Source
Werner
von
Boltenstern
Postcard
Collection
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