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Description
Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds. According to the accompanying negative sleeve, the power plant was visited by the West, Schmitz and Lemberger party around 1912. The plant that stands in the images was not completed until 1917. It is more likely these images were taken around 1917 or later. Photograph of John Lemberger and other members of the West and Schmitz families leaving the Los Angeles Bureau of Power and Light's Power Plant No. 1 in San Francisquito Canyon after a visit. A wide dirt road extends across the bottom edge of the frame and narrows towards the center as it approaches the power plant in the distance. John Lemberger walks down the road, left-of-center, towards the camera. He holds a book in his hand as he waves his arm upward. To his left, Albert Schmitz and Christina Schmitz stand to the side of the road near a car parked in partial view at left. Behind and to the right of John Lemberger, 3 more members of the party walk down the road towards the camera. They are: Freda Schmitz, Mary Schmitz and Ray Schmitz; they stand in a row. Behind them, Power Plant No. 1 stands. It is viewed at an angle. To the right of the road, a hillside extends upward in the foreground. Beyond the power plant, low mountains rise in the distance. Penstocks extend down the mountainside in the distance at far right. Text from negative sleeve: 1177. San Francisquito Canyon, about 1912. L to R: Mrs A.B.Schmitz. John Lemberger standing with Mrs George M West in front of him. Ray Schmitz, Al Schmitz, Mary A West, then the mother of Al and Ray Schmitz, with Chester Schmitz in the front sitting down. 2. The power house in the canyon. 3. Uncle John Lemberger waving. Al Schmitz and his mother at left of Uncle John. Looks like Ray Schmitz with Mary A West and his wife in the right rear. 3 films
Type
Format
b&w nitrate negative
Identifier
uclamss_1998_1177_001 ark:/21198/zz002hsj0b
Language
No linguistic content
Subject
Penstocks--California--San Francisquito Canyon San Francisquito Canyon (Calif.) Power plants--California--San Francisquito Canyon Schmitz, Christina, b. 1845 or 46 Schmitz, Freda Grunert, 1891-1954 Schmitz, Raymond A., 1889-1972 Lemberger, John L., 1846-1932 Los Angeles (Calif.). Bureau of Power and Light Shepard, Mary Adelbert Teel West, 1883-1960 Schmitz, Albert B., 1871-1948
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