View of a generator and the reconstruction site of the Bureau of Power and Light's Power House #2, San Francisquito Canyon, 1928

Title: View of a generator and the reconstruction site of the Bureau of Power and Light's Power House #2, San Francisquito Canyon, 1928
Photographer: Watson, George R., 1892-1977
Date Created: [circa May 14, 1928]
Date: 1928-05-14
Publisher: Los Angeles Times
Language: No linguistic content
Collection: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description: Appears merged with another photograph in the photo spread, “Small Army of Men Work Night and Day To Rebuild Power House No. 2,” Los Angeles Times, 14 May 1928: 8
See also Item Ark: 21198/zz002cw43s
A road stretches across the bottom edge and winds into the distance along the right half of the image. Behind and to the left of it, a construction pit sits in partial view. It is viewed from a slightly elevated perspective. Reinforced concrete walls line the pit. One of the Power House #2's surviving generators stands on its original base along the left edge. At center and to the right of the pit, a tall towers rises beyond the top edge. Farther back on the worksite, a sawmill stands in partial view along the left edge, lumber lines the winding road, right-of-center, and cars park in front of a small building along the right edge. Canyon walls line the background. The water line of the St. Francis Dam disaster's flood waters is visible stretching across the canyon walls.
Caption: Text from negative sleeve: LOS ANGELES WATER & POWER DEPT. PLANT #2
Text from newspaper caption: "Site of Power House No. 2 as it Appears Today, Showing Two Generators on Original Bases. Generator ‘A’ Operated Throughout Deluge," Los Angeles Times, 14 May 1928: 8

Genre: cellulose nitrate film
news photographs
Names: Los Angeles (Calif.). Bureau of Power and Light
Location: San Francisquito Canyon (Calif.)
Resource type: still image
Subjects: Los Angeles Aqueduct (Calif.)
Disasters--California--San Francisquito Canyon
Construction--California--San Francisquito Canyon
Floods--California--San Francisquito Canyon
Power plants--California--San Francisquito Canyon

Repository: University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
Local Identifier: uclamss_1429_5986
ARK: ark:/21198/zz002cw41r
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