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Title: Filtration Plant
Creator: Frederick-Burkett Foto Service
Date Created and/or Issued: 1928
Contributing Institution: Sacramento Public Library
Collection: Sacramento Room Photographs
Rights Information: This image may be protected by Copyright Law (Title 17 U.S.C.). Copyright restrictions applying to the reproduction and use of this image are available from the Sacramento Public Library.
Description: This 1928 photo shows the pumping station at Sacramento's water purification plant, located just north of the Southern Pacific Railroad yard. Built in an Italian Romanesque style, the building's frieze is ringed with the names of 16 pioneers in the realm of water purification: Kutter, Bernoulli, Chezy, Venturi, Simpsom, Mills, Sedgwick, Pasteur, Whipple, Gorgas, Kirkwood, Hazen, Toricelli, Pitot, Johnson and Fuller.
Type: image
Identifier: 1187
http://sacroom.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15248coll1/id/2230
Subject: Buildings, Government
Water Filtration Facilities
Source: Sacramento Room Photograph Collection

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