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Title: 3,000 gallons per minute
Alternative Title: Valley Times Photo Collection
Creator: Siddon, Dave
Contributor: This project was supported in whole or in part by the U.S. Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act, administered in California by the State Librarian
Made accessible through a grant from the John Randolph Haynes and Dora Haynes Foundation and Photo Friends
Date Created and/or Issued: 1956
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: Photograph caption dated August 1, 1956 reads, "Water is pumped at rate of 3,000 gallons per minute by this bank of pumps in lower left. These pumps are part of colling system for bearings. They are horizontal single-stage pumps driven by 200-horse-power motots, In all, plant uses 284, 000 gallons of water per minute for cooling purposes."
Type: image
Format: 1 photographic print:b&w ;26 x 21 cm.
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00058202
Valley Times Collection
HCNVT_d010_f21_i17
CARL0000061348
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/41635
Subject: Valley Steam Plant (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Steam power plants--California--Los Angeles
Pumps
Electric utilities--California--Los Angeles
Sun Valley (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Valley Times Collection photographs
Night photographs
Time Period: 1951-1960

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