Penstocks and generators stand in the background at the rebuilding site of Power House #2, San Francisquito Canyon, 1928

Title: Penstocks and generators stand in the background at the rebuilding site of 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: See also Item Ark: 21198/zz002cw407
A construction site sits in the near distance on a canyon floor at center. It is viewed from a slightly elevated perspective. Rubble sits in a pile to the left. Directly behind it stands a small building. To the right, workers cluster together by piles of lumber. The surviving penstocks and generators of the Bureau of Power & Light's Power House #2 rise in the background at right. The two generators sit on the canyon floor at the base of the wall. From them, the penstocks extend up the canyon wall. The canyon wall stretches across the background. The water line of the St. Francis Dam disaster's flood waters is visible stretching across the canyon walls. Workers' tents are visible in the distance along the left edge.
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
Caption: Text from negative sleeve: LOS ANGELES WATER & POWER DEPT. PLANT #2
Text from newspaper caption: "Another View of Site. Figures '1' and '2' Indicate Penstocks Which Escaped Flood Uninjured. Arrows Trace High Mark of Flood," 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: Penstocks--California--San Francisquito Canyon
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_5987
ARK: ark:/21198/zz002cw428
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