US UCLA Library Special Collections, A1713 Charles E. Young Research Library, Box 951575, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575. Email: spec-coll@library.ucla.edu. Phone: (310) 825-4988
Description
Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds. Access to this collection is generously supported by Haynes Foundation funds. Appears merged with another photograph in the photo spread, “Small Army of Men Work Night and Day To Rebuild Power House No. 2,” Los Angeles Times, 14 May 1928: 8 See also Item Ark: 21198/zz002cw43s A road stretches across the bottom edge and winds into the distance along the right half of the image. Behind and to the left of it, a construction pit sits in partial view. It is viewed from a slightly elevated perspective. Reinforced concrete walls line the pit. One of the Power House #2's surviving generators stands on its original base along the left edge. At center and to the right of the pit, a tall towers rises beyond the top edge. Farther back on the worksite, a sawmill stands in partial view along the left edge, lumber lines the winding road, right-of-center, and cars park in front of a small building along the right edge. Canyon walls line the background. The water line of the St. Francis Dam disaster's flood waters is visible stretching across the canyon walls. Text from negative sleeve: LOS ANGELES WATER & POWER DEPT. PLANT #2 Text from newspaper caption: "Site of Power House No. 2 as it Appears Today, Showing Two Generators on Original Bases. Generator ‘A’ Operated Throughout Deluge," Los Angeles Times, 14 May 1928: 8
Type
image
Format
b&w nitrate negative
Identifier
uclamss_1429_5986 ark:/21198/zz002cw41r
Language
No linguistic content
Subject
Los Angeles Aqueduct (Calif.) Disasters--California--San Francisquito Canyon Construction--California--San Francisquito Canyon Floods--California--San Francisquito Canyon Power plants--California--San Francisquito Canyon Los Angeles (Calif.). Bureau of Power and Light
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