Dr. George M. Uhl, city health officer demonstrating electrostatic precipitator, or "smog catcher" in Los Angeles, Calif., 1945

Item Overview
- Title
- Dr. George M. Uhl, city health officer demonstrating electrostatic precipitator, or "smog catcher" in Los Angeles, Calif., 1945
- Date Created
- September 14, 1945
- Publisher
- Los Angeles Times
- Language
- No linguistic content
- Collection
- Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Notes
- Description
- Los Angeles health officials began using this device to measure air pollution on September 13, 1945.
- Caption
- SMOG CATCHER: Left to right, Dr. George M. Uhl, city health officer, pointing; Harry E. Kunkel and Capt. Thomas Marsh demonstrating electrostatic precipitator, or "smog catcher."
Physical Description
- Extent
- 1 photograph
- Dimensions
- 10 x 12.5 cm.
- Medium
- b&w negative
Keywords
- Genre
- news photographs
- Subjects
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Electrostatic apparatus and appliances
Air--Pollution--Measurement
Science
Public health personnel--California--Los Angeles
People
Smog--California--Los Angeles County - Location
- Los Angeles (Calif.)--Officials and employees
- Longitude
- 34.0550061087703
- Latitude
- -118.241327404975
- Resource type
- still image
Find This Item
- Repository
- University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
- Local identifier
- uclalat_1429_b3216_37181
- ARK
- ark:/21198/zz0002v6pm
- Manifest url
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Access Condition
- Rights statement
- copyrighted
- Rights contact
- UCLA Library Special Collections, A1713 Charles E. Young Research Library, Box 951575, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575. Email: spec-coll@library.ucla.edu. Phone: (310) 825-4026
- Rights Holder
- The Regents of the University of California
- Rights Country
- US
- License
- https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
- License
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This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License .