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Title: Water wheel for distribution
Alternative Title: Security Pacific National Bank Photo Collection
Date Created and/or Issued: Circa 1860
Contributing Institution: Los Angeles Public Library
Collection: Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection
Rights Information: Images available for reproduction and use. Please see the Ordering & Use page at http://tessa.lapl.org/OrderingUse.html for additional information.
Description: The water wheel built in the late 1850s to raise water from the Los Angeles River into the Zanja Madre or "Mother Ditch" to provide water for irrigation. The wheel was destroyed in a flood.
Type: image
Format: 1 photograph :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00017354
Security Pacific National Bank Collection
Industries-Water and Power-Water-Early development; A-002-497 4x5; C-(1878) 4x5.
CARL0000002631
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/89692
Subject: Water-supply--California--Los Angeles
Water-wheels--California--Los Angeles
Irrigation--California--Los Angeles
Panoramic views
Zanja Madre (Calif.)
Downtown Los Angeles (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Time Period: 1851-1860

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