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Title
Aerial view of the Long Beach Steam Plant, September, 1929
Date Created and/or Issued
1929-09
Publication Information
University of Southern California. Libraries
Contributing Institution
California Historical Society
University of Southern California Digital Library
Collection
California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960
Rights Information
Doheny Memorial Library, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0189
Public Domain. Release under the CC BY Attribution license--http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/--Credit both “University of Southern California. Libraries” and “California Historical Society” as the source. Digitally reproduced by the USC Digital Library; From the California Historical Society Collection at the University of Southern California
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Description
Photograph of an aerial view of the Long Beach Steam Plant, September, 1929. A compound of large lightly colored buildings sits in the center of the image at an angle. Smokestacks of various sizes protrude out of the roofs of some of the buildings. Land covered in sparse plant life, railroad tracks, and electrical towers surround the building while a body of water sits behind the factory.
Type
image
Format
1 photograph : photoprint, b&w
21 x 26 cm.
photographic prints
photographs
Identifier
chs-m11876
USC-2-1-1-12028 [Legacy record ID]
CHS-40713
http://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m11876
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/CHS-40713.jpg
Subject
Electric power
Steam power-plants
Industry--Electric
Southern California Edison Company
Industrial sites
Time Period
1929-09
Place
California
Long Beach
Los Angeles
USA
Source
40713 [Accession number]
84-1-2097 [Microfiche number]
CHS-40713 [Call number]
California Historical Society [Contributing entity]
Relation
California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960
Los Angeles Area Chamber of Commerce Collection, 1890-1960
USC
chs-m825

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