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Title
Pacoima Dam, showing an inclining railway, January 4, 1927
Date Created and/or Issued
1927-01-04
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 Pacoima Dam, showing an inclining railway, January 4, 1927. A small car rides up the railway from the ground on the left to the top of the jagged rock wall on the right. A small, wooden structure stands embedded in the rocks to the left of the railway. Men observe from the ground as the car travels.
Type
image
Format
1 photograph : photoprint, b&w
26 x 21 cm.
photographic prints
photographs
Identifier
chs-m20606 [Legacy record ID]
CHS-36916
http://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m20606
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/CHS-36916.jpg
Subject
Dams
General Subjects--Engineering--Dams--Uncataloged
Dam sites
Time Period
1927-01-04
Place
California
Los Angeles
USA
Source
36916 [Accession number]
CHS-36916 [Call number]
California Historical Society [Contributing entity]

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