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 Send requests to address or e-mail given USC Libraries Special Collections specol@usc.edu
Description
Photograph of Florence Lake, storage reservoir of Southern California Edison Co., November 1931. In the extreme foreground, a line of trees is visible extending from the left to the right. Beyond the trees at center, a large circular lake is visible. Mountains and hillsides can be seen completely bordering the edges of the lake. On the far left edge of the lake, a large columned structure is visible. The lake's edge is visible near the top of the large column. A large gap is visible between each column, and the structure appears to slant outwards at an angle. The base of the structure is obscured by the trees. In the extreme background, large mountain ranges filled with trees can be seen from the far left to the right. Caption on the side of the image reads: "Florence Lake storage reservoir of the Southern California Edison Co. The multiple arch dam is 3,200 feet long and 154 feet high, storage capacity is 64,400 acre feet. Florence Lake is situated at an elevation of 7,327 feet in the High Sierra of Fresno County".
Type
image
Format
1 photograph : photoprint, b&w 21 x 26 cm. negatives (photographic) photographs
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