McCarthy Album 04, Photograph 123

Title: McCarthy Album 04, Photograph 123
Description: Caption: "Bakersfield-Los Angeles Ridge Route. Note the winding road. (X) marks the road in the distance." c. 1920. Mountain scene showing road winding around hills and ridges, with a few scattered automobiles also present. First opened in 1915, the Ridge Route was the first paved highway connecting Los Angeles with the San Joaquin Valley.
Contributor: Audrey Fullerton-Samora of Sacramento, great niece of William and Grace McCarthy, donated the William M. McCarthy Photograph Collection to the California State Archives in 1996.
Coverage: Los Angeles and Kern counties, California
Date: 1920
Format: JPEG, scanned at 400 DPI, 24-bit color
Identifier: 96-07-08-alb04-123
Language: English
Publisher: California State Archives, a division of the California Secretary of State's Office
Source: Image of a photograph within the William M. McCarthy Photograph Collection (96-07-08)
Subject: Castaic-Tejon Route, or Ridge Route
Type: Still Image