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Title: San Jose Electric Light Tower
Contributor: Gordon, John C. (photographer) (Creator)
Contributing Institution: San José State University, Special Collections and Archives
Collection: John C. Gordon Photographic Collection
Rights Information: For more information on copyright or permissions for this image, please contact San Jose State University Special Collections & Archives Department. http://library.sjsu.edu/sjsu-special-collections/sjsu-special-collections-and-archives
Description: Photograph shows the San Jose Light Tower with surrounding buildings of downtown San Jose.
Electric Light Tower in San Jose, inspired by J. J. Owen, editor of the San Jose Mercury. The tower stood 237-feet tall and was lighted on December 13, 1881. The tower was damaged by a windstorm on February 1915 and collapse on December 1915 at 11:55 a.m. Inscription reads: '3147 - Santa Clara Street and Electric Tower, San Jose, California. Looking west from First National bank Building'.
Scanned with Microtek Scanmaker 1000XL Pro; as a 600 dpi TIFF image in 8-bit Grayscale. Auto Level image processing applied and compressed into JPG format using Photoshop CS3.
Type: image
Format: image/jpeg
8 x 10 in.
Identifier: islandora:78_2
filename: jcg_light_tower_001
oclc: 566078497
islandora: 78_2
Language: English
Subject: The Arts
Urban Life
Electric lighting
Electricity
Towers
Landscape photography
Owen, James Jerome, b. 1827
Place: San Jose
California
Relation: John C. Gordon Photograph Collection

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