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Title
Timeteeping at the Pasadena Lite Plant, Pasadena, 1935
Date Created and/or Issued
August 1935
Publication Information
Los Angeles Times
Contributing Institution
UCLA, Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library
Collection
Los Angeles Times Photographic Archives
Rights Information
US
Description
Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds.
At the Pasadena Lite Plant a master clock controls all of the electric clocks in the city.
Two gauges and a clock are positioned on top of each other in a wooden frame.
Photograph appears with the article, "Era of Seconds Comes with Electric Timing," Los Angeles Times, 28 Sep 1935: A1.
Handwritten on negative: Clock in Pasadena lite Plant 8-30-35
Text from negative sleeve: 1967 - Carl W. Koiner Walter H Schahfer + Pasadena Lite Plant 8-31-35 [stamped:] Sep 4- 1935
Text from newspaper caption: Here are the top-sergeants in the Pasadena clock army. Everyone is out of step but us.
Type
Image
Format
b&w nitrate negative
Identifier
uclamss_1429_8313
ark:/21198/zz002dg5hh
Language
No linguistic content
Subject
Clocks & watches
Gauges
Source
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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