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Title
Department of Public Works employee checking flow measurements on the Venturi flume, spilling water to the ground, ca.1930
Date Created and/or Issued
circa 1930
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 a Department of Public Works employee checking flow measurements on the Venturi flume, spilling water to the ground, ca.1930. The man is shown at right, leaning over a pump of some sort, with a aperture at the left, through which water is flowing. A large tube runs from the right foreground towards the pump. The previous version of this record reads: "Venturi flume by Sewer Design Division in cooperation with Sewer Division".
Type
image
Format
1 photograph : photoprint, b&w
12 x 18 cm.
photographic prints
photographs
Identifier
chs-m4291
USC-0-1-1-4382 [Legacy record ID]
CHS-41977
http://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m4291
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/CHS-41977.jpg
Subject
Los Angeles--Department of Public Works--Sewage treatment and disposal
Los Angeles Department of Public Works
Sewage disposal
Municipal officials and employees
Industrial sites
Time Period
circa 1930
Place
California
Los Angeles
USA
Source
41977 [Accession number]
CHS-41977 [Call number]
California Historical Society [Contributing entity]
Relation
California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960
USC
chs-m15009

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