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Description
Photograph of an interior view of the City of Los Angeles Hyperion Treatment Plant, North Screening Plant of the Department of Public Works, Sewer and Drain Maintenance division, showing employees with large machinery, ca.1929. The photo shows five of the ten large "Dorrco" drum screens (the half cylindrical objects in the background) that were housed in the North Screening Plant. Four men, three in work clothes and one in a suit stand at center. The belt-driven machines the men are standing next to are the screening de-watering elevators that take the screenings off of the drums and drop them into a screening pit for disposal. Arched doors stand slung open on the left wall. Sunlight brightens the room from those open doors.
Type
image
Format
1 photograph : photoprint, b&w 13 x 18 cm. photographic prints photographs
Los Angeles--Department of Public Works--Sewage treatment and disposal Los Angeles Department of Public Works City of Los Angeles Hyperion Treatment Plant, North Screening Plant Sewage disposal Machinery Municipal officials and employees
Time Period
circa 1929
Place
California Los Angeles USA
Source
41981 [Accession number] CHS-41981 [Call number] California Historical Society [Contributing entity]
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