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 an aerial view of the Long Beach Steam Station, Southern California Edison Company, 1929. A row of large rectangular buildings can be seen stretching across the image at center. Three of the buildings have multiple cylindrical smokestacks on the roof. A large body of water is visible in the background, and metal utility poles can be seen behind the buildings at left. A caption in the bottom right corner reads: "1929 556,000 Horsepower".
Type
image
Format
1 photograph : photoprint, b&w 21 x 26 cm. photographic prints photographs
Electric power Electric power plants Hydroelectric power plants Los Angeles County--Long Beach--General views Southern California Edison Company Industrial sites
Time Period
1929
Place
California Long Beach Los Angeles USA
Source
36972 [Accession number] CHS-36972 [Call number] California Historical Society [Contributing entity]
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