Power house in San Gabriel, ca.1915

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Photograph of the exterior of a San Gabriel Power House which supplies electricity to Los Angeles and water for orchards of Pomona Valley, ca.1915. Here a mountain stream is diverted and brought through steel pipes to the power house. Two other buildings are visible at right. A water conduit running down the mountain side is visible behind the power house. The banks of concrete swale in the foreground are lined with river stones and landscaped with small plants.

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Title Power house in San Gabriel, ca.1915

Subject Electric power plants (lcsh), Engineering -- Aqueducts #4 -- Irrigation ditches, wells (file heading), Irrigation (lcsh), power generation sites (adlf), Water-supply (lcsh)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

Place California (states), Los Angeles (city or populated place), Los Angeles (counties), San Gabriel (city or populated place), USA (countries)

Temporal Subject 1915

Type images

Format 2 photographs : glass photonegative, photoprint, b&w ; 17 x 22 cm. (aacr2), glass plate negatives (format), photographs (aat)

Source California Historical Society (contributing entity), California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960 (collection), Title Insurance and Trust, and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection, 1860-1960 (subcollection)

Date Created 1915

Publisher University of Southern California. Libraries (digital)

Repository Email specol@lib.usc.edu

Repository Name USC Libraries Special Collections

Repository Location Doheny Memorial Library, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0189

Rights Public Domain. Please credit both “University of Southern California. Libraries” and “California Historical Society” as the source. Digitally reproduced by the USC Digital Library.

Copyright Public Domain. Please credit both “University of Southern California. Libraries” and “California Historical Society” as the source. Digitally reproduced by the USC Digital Library.

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Permanent Link (DOI) https://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m10083

Identifier 1657 (accession number), CHS-1657 (call number), CHS-1657 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-10319 (legacy record id), chs-m10083 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-10223 (legacy record id), 1-110-9 (microfiche number), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 10319

Unique identifier UC140330

Legacy Identifier CHS-1657.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 16.8 in × 12.9 in at 300dpi
42.9 cm × 32.9 cm at 300dpi

Inherited Values

Title Title Insurance and Trust and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection 1860-1960

Description The nearly 15,000 unique photographs of this collection contain the work of C.C. Pierce which cover the Los Angeles region city, street and architectural views, California Missions, Southwestern Native Americans, and turn-of-century Nevada, Arizona, and California. Pierce, active from 1886 to 1940, was one of the leading photographers of his day and amassed a collection of 15,000 images, including his own and those bought and copied from his contemporaries, George Wharton James and Charles Puck. The James collection contains over 2,000 images of portraits, customs, ceremonies, arts, and games of various groups of Southwestern Native Americans.

Date Created 1860/1960

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