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Title: Electric tower
Contributor: Kessler (artist) (Creator)
Contributing Institution: San José State University, Special Collections and Archives
Collection: San José State University Archives Photograph Collection
Rights Information: For more information on copyright or permissions for this image, please contact San Jose State University Special Collections & Archives department. http://www.sjlibrary.org/research/special/special_coll/index.htm
Description: Drawing of the San Jose electric tower. Electric Light Tower in San Jose, inspired by J. J. Owen, editor of the San Jose Mercury. The tower stood 237-feet tall and was lighted on December 13, 1881. The tower was damaged by a windstorm on February 1915 and collapsed on December 1915 at 11:55 a.m.
Scanned with Microtek Scanmaker 1000XL Pro; as a 600 dpi TIFF image in 8-bit Grayscale. Auto Level image processing applied and compressed into JPEG format using Photoshop CS3.
Type: image
Format: image/jpeg
8 X 10 in.
Identifier: islandora:81_599
filename: ua_elec_tower_001
oclc: 601769049
islandora: 81_599
Language: English
Subject: Community Life
Electric lighting
Electricity
Towers
Place: San Jose
California
Relation: San Jose State University Archives Photograph Collection

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