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Photograph was edited for publication purposes Photograph article dated January 18, 1962 partially reads, "When I entered, John Morgan was letting off some steam...As a boiler control operator at the Valley Steam Plant in Pacoima, his job is to keep an eye on the temper and pulse of one of its four gigantic steam boilers. 'Glad you came,' said Morgan...glancing up from a desk that sat in a sea of dials and levers. 'This is my office.'"
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image
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1 photographic print :b&w ;26 x 21 cm. Photographic prints
Steam power plants--California--Los Angeles Steam power plants--Electric equipment--California--Los Angeles Steam power plants--California--Los Angeles--Employees Men--California--Los Angeles Telephones Pacoima (Los Angeles, Calif.) Valley Times Collection photographs
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