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Title	Redondo Salt Works, California, ca.1895-1910
Description	Photograph (ca.1895-1910) of the Redondo Salt Works, California, owned by Fred Mellus, son of Henry Mellus. Looking northeast over evaporation pools, vats and buildings of the salt works at Redondo Beach. Distant vista is of vacant land on hills of Hermosa Beach. The brine of Lake Salinas (as the pond was called) was of unusual composition. The extracted salt was brought to Los Angeles and prepared for market at the works on Alameda Street near Aliso Street (?).
Subject (adlf)	commerical sites
Subject (file heading)	Los Angeles County -- Redondo Beach -- Architecture -- General
Subject (lcsh)	Buildings Salt industry and trade Salt lakes
Geographic subject (city or populated place)	Redondo Beach; Hermosa Beach; Redondo Beach; Hermosa Beach
Geographic subject (county)	Los Angeles
Geographic subject (state)	California
Geographic subject (country)	USA
Coverage date	1895/1910
Photographer	Packman, Mrs.
Publisher (of the digital version)	University of Southern California. Libraries
Date created	1895/1910
Type	images
Format	glass plate negatives
Format (aacr2)	2 photographs : photoprints, b&w ; 8 x 10 in.; 2 photographs : photonegative, glass photonegative, b&w ; 20 x 25 cm., 21 x 26 cm.
Format (aat)	negatives (photographic) photographs
Contributing entity	California Historical Society
Accession number	2132
Call number	CHS-2132
Microfiche number	1-104-12
Legacy record ID	chs-m1181; USC-1-1-1-1225; USC-1-1-1-11306
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	Digitally reproduced by the USC Digital Library; From the California Historical Society Collection at the University of Southern California
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-2132
Archival file	chs_Volume26/CHS-2132.tiff

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