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 first electric arc lamp-mast (electric light pole) in Los Angeles, located on the Baker Block, Main Street, north from Commercial Street, ca.1887. The lamp provided lighting equivalent to four 3000 candle-powered lamps and it was turned on for the first time on December 30, 1881. The lamp stands at approximately eight-stories tall. Halfway up is an island where a man is standing. Mild vehicle and pedestrian traffic flow in the streets below. A majority of the buildings are three-stories tall.
Type
image
Format
1 photograph : photonegative, b&w 21 x 26 cm. negatives (photographic) photographs
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