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English: Man standing near a water ditch at the bank of Los Angeles River, north side of Griffith Park, ca.1900
  • Photograph of a man standing near a water ditch (acequia) at the bank of Los Angeles River, on north side of Griffith Park, ca.1900.
  • The ditch (full of water) has been dug at left. A stand of trees is beside the relatively still water.
  • Originally, the record was entitled as "Man standing next to the headwater of the Los Angeles River, north side of Griffith Park ". The Los Angeles River's headwaters, however, are in the far western in the San Fernando Valley (Canoga Park), CA.
Call number: CHS-2008
Filename: CHS-2008
Coverage date: circa 1900
Part of collection: California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960
Format: glass plate negatives
Type: images
Geographic subject (city or populated place): Los Angeles
Repository name: USC Libraries Special Collections
Accession number: 2008
Microfiche number: 1-110-
Archival file: chs_Volume71/CHS-2008.tiff
Part of subcollection: Title Insurance and Trust, and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection, 1860-1960
Repository address: Doheny Memorial Library, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0189
Geographic subject (country): USA
Format (aacr2): 1 photograph : photoprint, b&w ; 21 x 26 cm.; 1 photograph : glass photonegative, b&w ; 21 x 26 cm.
Rights: Digitally reproduced by the USC Digital Library; From the California Historical Society Collection at the University of Southern California
Subject (adlf): rivers
Project: USC
Repository email: specol@usc.edu
Contributing entity: California Historical Society
Date created: circa 1900
Publisher (of the digital version): University of Southern California. Libraries
Format (aat): photographic prints; photographs
Geographic subject (state): California
Subject (file heading): Engineering -- Aqueducts -- General; Los Angeles -- Los Angeles River
Legacy record ID: chs-m10079; USC-1-1-1-10219
Geographic subject: parks: Griffith Park
Access conditions: Send requests to address or e-mail given. Phone (213) 821-2366; fax (213) 740-2343.
Geographic subject (county): Los Angeles
Subject (lcsh): Rivers; Water-supply
Date circa 1900
date QS:P,+1900-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902
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Source http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/ref/collection/p15799coll65/id/10315
Author Unknown authorUnknown author

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