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Title: American Meter Co., Fullerton
Alternative Title: Kelly-Holiday Mid-Century Aerial Photo Collection
Creator: Kelly, Howard D
Contributor: Made accessible through a grant from the John Randolph Haynes and Dora Haynes Foundation
Date Created and/or Issued: 1955
Publication Information: Kelly-Holiday
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: Title supplied by cataloger.
American Meter manufactures measurement and control equipment and was established in 1836 when Samuel Down produced the first gas meters in the United States. In 1863, Down merged with two other meter manufacturers and the resulting entity was incorporated as American Meter.
Looking northeast over the plant for American Meter Co., located at 300 N. Gilbert Street (bottom left corner) where it meets W. Raymer Avenue (lower right corner) in Fullerton. Railroad tracks (bottom right corner) run south of the plant and some citrus groves are in the background. Photograph dated November 22, 1955.
Type: image
Format: 1 negative :safety ;12 x 14 cm.
Photographic safety negatives
Identifier: 00088940
Kelly-Holiday Mid-Century Aerial Collection
GPC_b22_f1_i28 (Photographic print); KHAF 224-1
CARL0004941136
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/4554
Subject: American Meter Co
Industrial facilities--California--Fullerton
Flow meter industry--California--Fullerton
Industries--California--Fullerton
Streets--California--Fullerton
Citrus--California--Fullerton
Railroad tracks--California--Fullerton
Fullerton (Calif.)
Fullerton (Calif.)--Aerial views
Aerial photographs
Time Period: 1951-1960

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