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Title
Exterior view of El Centro's ice plant and power house, ca.1910
Date Created and/or Issued
circa 1910
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 exterior view of El Centro's ice plant and power house, ca.1910. A large, warehouse-sized building can be seen at left. A train can be seen at center to the right of the building on tracks that run from the right foreground. A man can be seen walking in the center of the tracks, while two horses can be seen hitched to a wagon at left. A building is visible at right with long, arched windows. What appear to be four smoke stacks can be seen behind the building. Miscellaneous lumber and other materials can be seen in front of the building at right.
Type
image
Format
1 photograph : photoprint, b&w
13 x 18 cm.
photographic prints
photographs
Identifier
chs-m7311
USC-0-1-1-7440 [Legacy record ID]
CHS-45189
http://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m7311
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/CHS-45189.jpg
Subject
Ice
Electric power plants
Cold storage
Imperial County--El Centro
Power generation sites
Time Period
circa 1910
Place
California
El Centro
Imperial
USA
Source
45189 [Accession number]
CHS-45189 [Call number]
California Historical Society [Contributing entity]
unidentified no: 8368; unidentified no: 21516 [Identifying number]
Relation
California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960
USC
chs-m15009

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