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
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Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds. The two women, wearing shin-length dresses of different patterns stand next to a large structure of gleaming tubes and pipes, each with one hand on a lever. Wife of the general manager of the dry ice company Mrs. Carl M. Einhart was the inventor of the plant, all thanks to her curiosity over the smoking baby volcanos mired in the gray mud. The plant is located by the Salton Sea, one of the hottest places in America, and churns out product that is chilled at 109 degrees below zero. Photograph appears with the ,"Famous Bubbling Mud Pots Become Site of Niland's Busy Dry Ice Plant", Los Angeles Times, 01 June 1936: 12. Text from negative sleeve: 5758 - From the well the gas goes round and round through machines and as snow finally reaches a gigantic "vise" where it is compressed and emerges into fifty-pound cakes ready for market. Shown at the gigantic hydraulic "vise" are Mrs. Sidney Burritt, left, and Mrs. Parkman Burritt. The plant, now producing ten tons of dry ice a day, may soon have to expand. 6-12-36 [stamped:] Jun 16 1936 Text from newspaper caption: From the well the gas goes round and round through machines and as snow finally reaches a gigantic "vise" where it is compressed and emerges into fifty-pound cakes ready for market. Shown at the gigantic hydraulic "vise" are Mrs. Sidney Burritt, left, and Mrs. Parkman Burritt. The plant, now producing ten tons of dry ice a day, may soon have to expand.
Type
Image
Format
b&w nitrate negative
Identifier
uclamss_1429_14358 ark:/21198/zz002j7xnq
Language
No linguistic content
Subject
Power plants--California--Niland Machinery Industry--California--Niland Burritt, Sidney, (Mrs.) Burritt, Parkman, (Mrs.)
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