Image: Main irrigation ditch in the San Gabriel Canyon, ca.1900 (CHS-1365)
Description: Main irrigation ditch in the San Gabriel Canyon, ca.1900 Photograph of a man standing next to a large irrigation ditch in the San Gabriel Canyon, ca.1900. The ditch brings water from the mountains to the Pomona Valley. A plank crossing the ditch which is full of water at a diversion is in the foreground and there is another further back. Mountains are in the background. Call number: CHS-1365 Filename: CHS-1365 Coverage date: circa 1900 Part of collection: California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960 Format: glass plate negatives Type: images Part of subcollection: Title Insurance and Trust, and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection, 1860-1960 Repository name: USC Libraries Special Collections Accession number: 1365 Microfiche number: 1-110-6 Archival file: chs_Volume69/CHS-1365.tiff Repository address: Doheny Memorial Library, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0189 Geographic subject (country): USA Format (aacr2): 1 photograph : photoprint, b&w ; 8 x 10 in.; 1 photograph : glass photonegative, b&w ; 17 x 20 cm. Rights: Digitally reproduced by the USC Digital Library; From the California Historical Society Collection at the University of Southern California Subject (adlf): canals 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): photographs Geographic subject (state): California Subject (file heading): Agriculture -- Irrigation Legacy record ID: chs-m9446; USC-1-1-1-9583 Geographic subject: canyons: San Gabriel Canyon; valleys: Pomona Valley 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): Water-supply; Irrigation
Title: Main irrigation ditch in the San Gabriel Canyon, ca.1900 (CHS-1365)
Credit: http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/ref/collection/p15799coll65/id/9702
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