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Title
Interior of the boiler room in Plant #3 at the Long Beach Steam Station, ca.1925
Date Created and/or Issued
circa 1925
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 the boiler room in Plant #3 at the Long Beach Steam Station, ca.1925. The large room is supported by thick metal girders riveted together. There is a tile floor and several consoles contain gauges. The boilers and their pipes can be seen on both sides of the room. Two men can be seen standing on the floor and looking at the readings on the gauges. The plant was operated by Southern California Edison Company.
Type
image
Format
2 photographs : photonegative, photoprint, b&w
13 x 10 cm., 26 x 21 cm.
negatives (photographic)
photographic prints
photographs
Identifier
chs-m11873
USC-2-1-1-12025 [Legacy record ID]
CHS-33205
http://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m11873
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/CHS-33205.jpg
Subject
Electric power
Steam power-plants
Industry--Electric
Southern California Edison Company
Power generation sites
Time Period
circa 1925
Place
California
Long Beach
Los Angeles
USA
Source
33205 [Accession number]
84-1-1197 [Microfiche number]
CHS-33205 [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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