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Title: Silver Lake Reservoir
Alternative Title: Security Pacific National Bank Photo Collection
Date Created and/or Issued: 1932
Contributing Institution: Los Angeles Public Library
Collection: Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection
Rights Information: Images available for reproduction and use. Please see the Ordering & Use page at http://tessa.lapl.org/OrderingUse.html for additional information.
Description: The reservoir is named after Herman Silver, a member of Los Angeles' first Board of Water commissioners. The Department of Water and Power established these reservoirs in the early 1900s as part of the city-wide system of water storage & delivery that today has only 10 open reservoirs remaining.
Panoramic view of Silver Lake Reservoir, under construction.
Type: image
Format: 1 photograph :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00045687
Security Pacific National Bank Collection
Industries-Water and power-Reservoirs-Silver Lake; A-011-967 4x5
CARL0000049558
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/101738
Subject: Reservoirs--California--Silver Lake (Los Angeles)
Dwellings--California--Silver Lake (Los Angeles)
Streets--California--Silver Lake (Los Angeles)
Mountains--California, Southern
Panoramic views
San Gabriel Mountains (Calif.)
Verdugo Mountains (Calif.)
Silver Lake Reservoir (Calif.)
Silver Lake (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Time Period: 1931-1940

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