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Title
Artesian well at an old adobe ranch house, South Pasadena, ca.1884-1886
Creator
Friend, Herv
Date Created and/or Issued
circa 1884
Publication Information
University of Southern California. Libraries
Contributing Institution
California Historical Society Collection at Stanford
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 artesian well at an old adobe panel ranch house, South Pasadena, ca.1884-1886. Water flows up out of a pipe in the center of a round cement cistern two- to three-feet high. The porch and 2nd-story balcony of the dwelling is visible at left. Large old trees dot the yard. A wire mesh and wood post fence runs across at back.
Type
image
Format
2 photographs : photonegative, photoprint, b&w
21 x 26 cm.
negatives (photographic)
photographs
Identifier
chs-m10086
USC-1-1-1-10226 [Legacy record ID]
CHS-3856
http://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m10086
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/CHS-3856.jpg
Subject
Engineering--Aqueducts #4--Irrigation ditches, wells
Wells
Water-supply
Time Period
circa 1884
Place
California
Los Angeles
South Pasadena
USA
Source
1-110-23 [Microfiche number]
3856 [Accession number]
CHS-3856 [Call number]
California Historical Society [Contributing entity]
Relation
California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960
Title Insurance and Trust, and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection, 1860-1960
USC
chs-m265

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