Trestle supporting a San Diego flume that brought water to the city, 1888

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Photograph of a trestle supporting a San Diego flume that brought water to the city, 1888. Five levels of scaffolding are visible, extending from the right foreground to the left background. Through the structure, mountains and what appears to be water can be seen in the distance.; The high trestle was completed in 1888; it as 1700 feet long, and 85 feet high. It was part of the Cuyamaca Water Company. Flume.

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Title Trestle supporting a San Diego flume that brought water to the city, 1888

Subject Canals (adlf), Cuyamaca Water Company (subject), Flumes (lcsh), San Diego County -- General (file heading), Trestles (lcsh), Water-supply (lcsh)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

Place California (states), San Diego (counties), USA (countries)

Temporal Subject 1888

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), Title Insurance and Trust, and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection, 1860-1960 (subcollection)

Date Created 1888

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-m6295

Identifier 11775 (accession number), CHS-11775 (call number), CHS-11775 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-6388 (legacy record id), chs-m6295 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-6405 (legacy record id), 1-46- (microfiche number), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 6388

Unique identifier UC116770

Legacy Identifier CHS-11775.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 20.2 in × 15.7 in at 300dpi
51.5 cm × 40.0 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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