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 Haynes Foundation funds. Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds. See also Item Ark: 21198/zz002cw407 A construction site sits in the near distance on a canyon floor at center. It is viewed from a slightly elevated perspective. Rubble sits in a pile to the left. Directly behind it stands a small building. To the right, workers cluster together by piles of lumber. The surviving penstocks and generators of the Bureau of Power & Light's Power House #2 rise in the background at right. The two generators sit on the canyon floor at the base of the wall. From them, the penstocks extend up the canyon wall. The canyon wall stretches across the background. The water line of the St. Francis Dam disaster's flood waters is visible stretching across the canyon walls. Workers' tents are visible in the distance along the left edge. 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 Text from negative sleeve: LOS ANGELES WATER & POWER DEPT. PLANT #2 Text from newspaper caption: "Another View of Site. Figures '1' and '2' Indicate Penstocks Which Escaped Flood Uninjured. Arrows Trace High Mark of Flood," Los Angeles Times, 14 May 1928: 8
Type
Image
Format
b&w nitrate negative
Identifier
uclamss_1429_5987 ark:/21198/zz002cw428
Language
No linguistic content
Subject
Construction--California--San Francisquito Canyon Floods--California--San Francisquito Canyon Power plants--California--San Francisquito Canyon Disasters--California--San Francisquito Canyon Los Angeles Aqueduct (Calif.) Penstocks--California--San Francisquito Canyon Los Angeles (Calif.). Bureau of Power and Light
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