Water wheel near Elysian Park which raised water from the Zanja Madre that flowed to a reservoir in the Pueblo, ca.1870

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Title	Water wheel near Elysian Park which raised water from the Zanja Madre that flowed to a reservoir in the Pueblo, ca.1870
Description	Photograph of the water wheel near Elysian Park which raised water from the Zanja Madre that flowed to a reservoir in the Pueblo, ca.1870. This wheel was shipped from San Francisco and erected at a point just north of the Southern Pacific Railway yards at Elysian Park. The wheel raised water 36 feet from the Zanja Madre and the water flowed through wooden flumes to a reservoir located at the Los Angeles Plaza. The wheel itself had paddles 6-feet wide to each of which was fastened a 15-gallon bucket. Agricultural tracts visible in the background.
Subject (adlf)	hyrdrographic structures
Subject (file heading)	Engineering -- Aqueducts #5 -- Zanjas
Subject (lcsh)	Water-supply
Geographic subject (city or populated place)	Los Angeles Plaza; Elysian Park; Los Angeles
Geographic subject (county)	Los Angeles
Geographic subject (state)	California
Geographic subject (country)	USA
Coverage date	circa 1870
Publisher (of the digital version)	University of Southern California. Libraries
Date created	circa 1870
Type	images
Format (aacr2)	2 photographs : photonegative, photoprint, b&w ; 20 x 25 cm.
Format (aat)	negatives (photographic) photographs
Accession number	1878
Call number	CHS-1878
Microfiche number	1-15-32; 1-110-13
Legacy record ID	chs-m10075; USC-1-1-1-10215
Part of collection	California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960
Part of subcollection	Title Insurance and Trust, and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection, 1860-1960
Project	USC
Rights	California Historical Society
Access conditions	Send requests to address or e-mail given. Phone (213) 821-2366; fax (213) 740-2343.
Repository name	USC Libraries Special Collections
Repository address	Doheny Memorial Library, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0189
Repository email	specol@usc.edu
Filename	CHS-1878
Full text	Raising Water From The Zanja, Los Angeles, 1868
Archival file	chs_Volume71/CHS-1878.tiff

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