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Title
Old water wheel on the Zanja Madre on South Alameda Street near Washington Boulevard, ca.1900
Date Created and/or Issued
circa 1900
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 an old water wheel on the Zanja Madre on South Alameda Street near Washington Boulevard, ca.1900. The wooden water wheel is at center and has multiple paddles on the end of its long wooden spokes. Behind the wheel are two very large wooden barrels on top of wooden supports. There is a low picket fence running in front of the water wheel, and a line of utility poles in front of the fence. The wheel is also surrounded by several trees and bushes.
Type
image
Format
1 photograph : photonegative, b&w
21 x 26 cm.
negatives (photographic)
photographic prints
photographs
Identifier
chs-m10257
USC-1-1-1-10402 [Legacy record ID]
CHS-11430
http://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m10257
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/CHS-11430.jpg
Subject
Engineering--Aqueducts #5--Zanjas
Water-supply
Irrigation
Hydrographic structures
Time Period
circa 1900
Place
California
Los Angeles
South Alameda Street near Washington Boulevard
USA
Source
1-110-38 [Microfiche number]
11430 [Accession number]
CHS-11430 [Call number]
California Historical Society [Contributing entity]
Relation
California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960
Title Insurance and Trust, and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection, 1860-1960
USC
chs-m265

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