Aerial view of the Morris Dam and San Gabriel River, 1938

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Photograph of the Morris Dam and San Gabriel River, 1938. The smooth, lightly-colored water resembles milk as it winds between the dark hillsides and rushes through the spillway of the dam at center. The foamy water hits the gravel bed in the foreground forecefully, moistening the dry ground on contact. To the left a thin road can be seen curving along the side of the hill into the background. The road intersects a road which bridges over the spillway and crosses the top of the dam to get to the hills on the right.

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Title Aerial view of the Morris Dam and San Gabriel River, 1938

Subject dam sites (adlf), Dams (lcsh), Engineering -- Dams (file heading)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

Place California (states), Los Angeles (counties), USA (countries)

Temporal Subject 1938

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)

Date Created 1938

Contributor Prejza, Paul (donated 1978-03) (donor)

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-m10312

Identifier 40405 (accession number), CHS-40405 (call number), CHS-40405 (filename), chs-m15009 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-12455 (legacy record id), chs-m10312 (legacy record id), USC-0-1-1-10457 (legacy record id), 1-110-68 (microfiche number), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 12455

Unique identifier UC133061

Legacy Identifier CHS-40405.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 20.8 in × 16.3 in at 300dpi
52.9 cm × 41.5 cm at 300dpi

Inherited Values

Title California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960

Description The California Historical Society Collection is incomparable for the documentary picture it provides of the growth of Southern California, particularly the development of the Los Angeles region, between 1860 and 1960. The collection contains more than 25,000 photographs. The full archive was placed on long-term deposit at USC in 1990 and includes the Title Insurance and Trust Company Collection, also known as TICOR, and the Los Angeles Area Chamber of Commerce Collection.

We are grateful to the following individuals who have improved the information in the Digital Library by bringing inaccuracies to our attention as well as adding information. C.J. Bell, Paul Boyle, James Cartwright, Phil Coscia, Bill Counter, Richard Davis, Ray DeLea, Mark French, Amanda Frye, Eric Gustafson, James King, Bill Morgan, Heather Pitts, Tim Poyorena-Miguel, Jo Anne Sadler, Ellen Lloyd Trover, Ruth Wallach, Kim Walters, Cynthia Wilson, Betsy Woodford, Chancy Woolridge, and many others.

Date Created 1860/1960

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