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Title
Interior view of an electric plant, ca.1930
Date Created and/or Issued
circa 1930
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 the interior of an electric plant, ca.1930. A row of darkly colored semi-circular machines runs from the left foreground to the right background. The machines alternate in two different sizes. The larger machines have rounded edges and oval shaped hole running along the curve while the smaller objects have sharp edges with no holes. In the center foreground sits s rectangular hole in the floor. The hole is surrounded by a guard rail made of metallic poles. A rounded apparatus is visible inside the hole. Similar holes extend into the background while light cascades into the room through long rectangular windows on the left.
Type
image
Format
1 photograph : photoprint, b&w
21 x 26 cm.
photographic prints
photographs
Identifier
chs-m11912
USC-2-1-1-12064 [Legacy record ID]
CHS-40736
http://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m11912
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/CHS-40736.jpg
Subject
Electric power plants
Industry--Electric
Southern California Edison Company
Industrial sites
Time Period
circa 1930
Place
California
Los Angeles
USA
Source
40736 [Accession number]
84-1-1203 [Microfiche number]
CHS-40736 [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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