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Title
Power house in San Gabriel, ca.1915
Date Created and/or Issued
circa 1915
Publication Information
University of Southern California. Libraries
Contributing Institution
California Historical Society
University of Southern California Digital Library
Collection
California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960
Rights Information
Doheny Memorial Library, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0189
Public Domain. Release under the CC BY Attribution license--http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/--Credit both “University of Southern California. Libraries” and “California Historical Society” as the source. Digitally reproduced by the USC Digital Library; From the California Historical Society Collection at the University of Southern California
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Description
Photograph of the interior of a San Gabriel Canyon power house (San Gabriel Electric Company) which supplies electricity to Los Angeles (28 miles distant) and water for orchards of Pomona Valley, ca.1915. Four turbines spin at left. The control panel is to the right.
Type
image
Format
2 photographs : glass photonegative, photoprint, b&w
17 x 22 cm.
glass plate negatives
photographic prints
photographs
Identifier
chs-m10082
USC-1-1-1-10222 [Legacy record ID]
CHS-1658
http://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m10082
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/CHS-1658.jpg
Subject
Engineering--Aqueducts #1--General
Water-supply
Electric power plants
Irrigation
Hydrographic structures
Time Period
circa 1915
Place
California
Los Angeles
San Gabriel
USA
Source
1-110-10 [Microfiche number]
1658 [Accession number]
CHS-1658 [Call number]
California Historical Society [Contributing entity]
Relation
California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960
Title Insurance and Trust, and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection, 1860-1960
USC
chs-m265

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