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".

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Title Exterior aerial view of the Permanente Cement Company, ca.1940

Publisher University of Southern California. Libraries (digital)

Date Created 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)

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 Send requests to address or e-mail given

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

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