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Exterior aerial view of the Permanente Cement Company, ca.1940
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Exterior aerial view of the Permanente Cement Company, ca.1940
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Photograph of exterior aerial view of the Permanente Cement Company, ca.1940. At center, the large factory can be seen sitting among the surrounding mountain ranges. Several pipes lie near the center of the factory by the adjacent buildings. A small square building lined with windows is visible at the north end of the factory, and a tall smokestack can be seen adjacent to this building. On the left side of the factory, two large circular tanks can be seen embedded into the ground. Two small buildings lie at the edge of the tanks, and a group of cylindrical tanks can also be seen nearby. Across the ravine further in the foreground, a larger group of cylindrical tanks can be seen adjacent to a rectangular building. In the extreme foreground to the left, a large building is seen extending small platforms to the nearby mountain ridge. Small structures can be seen along the edge of this forested mountain ridge. In the extreme background, a winding road surrounds the outer perimeter of the factory. Numerous hills and curved roads can be seen on both the left and the right.; Back of photoprint reads: "Permanente Cement Company , already the largest cement plant in the world, has been expanded to boost production to 5,500,000 barrels or 22,000,000 sacks annually. Built in less than seven months in 1939 to supply all the cement for mighty Shasta Dam, the Henry J. Kaiser-directed enterprise provided the Pacific war theater with all its bulk cement during world war II. The plant is located in Northern California's Santa Clara Valley where hight quality raw materials, limestone and clay, are located on its property. Novel in operation of the plant is the 48-inch conveyor belt which moves rock downhill at the rate of which there are more than four miles in the plant, generators driven by gravity flow supply enough electricity to operate a five-yard shovel in the quarry. Branch facilities of the cement plant include bulk ship loading equipment located at Redwood City on San Francisco Bay; packhouse and silo storage equipment at Honolulu, T.H. and another manufacturing division at Seattle, Washington".
Asset Metadata
Title
Exterior aerial view of the Permanente Cement Company, ca.1940
Subject
Cement
(lcsh),
Factories
(lcsh),
industrial sites
(adlf),
Industry -- Plants -- Panoramic views
(file heading)
Tags
OAI-PMH Harvest
Place
California
(states),
San Francisco
(city or populated place),
USA
(countries)
Temporal Subject
1940
Type
images
Format
1 photograph : photoprint, b&w ; 21 x 26 cm.
(aacr2),
photographic prints
(aat),
photographs
(aat)
Source
California Historical Society
(contributing entity),
California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960
(collection),
Los Angeles Area Chamber of Commerce Collection, 1890-1960
(subcollection)
Date Created
1940
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.
Access Conditions
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Permanent Link (DOI)
https://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m10446
Identifier
46162 (
accession number
), CHS-46162 (
call number
), CHS-46162 (
filename
), chs-m825 (
legacy collection record id
), chs-c65-13514 (
legacy record id
), chs-m10446 (
legacy record id
), USC-2-1-1-10593 (
legacy record id
), 84-1-2015 (
microfiche number
), USC (
project
), 40794 (
unidentified no.
)
IIIF ID
[Document.IIIFV3ID]
DM Record ID
13514
Unique identifier
UC137402
Legacy Identifier
CHS-46162.tiff
Type
Image
Internet Media Type
image/tiff
Resolution
21.8 in × 17.9 in at 300dpi
55.6 cm × 45.4 cm at 300dpi
Inherited Values
Title
Los Angeles Area Chamber of Commerce Collection 1890-1960
Description
The more than 3,600 unique photographs of this collection document the Chamber's promotional efforts during the city's early years. In addition to stock photographs, there are pictures of the elaborate booths and displays that the Chamber prepared for use at state fairs and international trade shows. The photographic collection contains images showing the growth of important municipal enterprises, such as ground transportation systems, aviation, and shipping. In addition there are about 1,000 lantern slides in this collection -- not yet fully digitized.
Date Created
1860/1960
Linked assets
Los Angeles Area Chamber of Commerce Collection 1890-1960
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