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Title: Valley steam plant transformer
Alternative Title: Valley Times Photo Collection
Creator: Los Angeles (Calif.).Department of Water and Power
Contributor: This project was supported in whole or in part by the U.S. Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act, administered in California by the State Librarian
Made accessible through a grant from the John Randolph Haynes and Dora Haynes Foundation and Photo Friends
Date Created and/or Issued: 1957
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: This huge 25-foot three-phase transformer at the Valley steam plant steps up voltage from 18,000 to 138,000 volts for transmission to the distribution system. The plant has about 1700 control switches, instruments and relays. Photo date: May 16,1957.
Type: image
Format: 1 photograph :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00058322
Valley Times Collection
HCN box 3584.
CARL0000060291
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/41627
Subject: Los Angeles (Calif.).--Department of Water and Power
Electric power-plants--California--Sun Valley (Los Angeles)
Electric transformers--California--Sun Valley (Los Angeles)
Valley Times Collection photographs

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