OPEN TODAY: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.

Tickets

Visual Materials

San Diego Flume Co. trestle

Image not available

Description
The sepia-toned photograph contains an annotated description on the recto, "1284 Ft. Trestle SD Flume." Also on verso in ink, "It would take a week to fully descend the magnificent flume 40 miles long and bringing pure snow--water from the heights of the Cuyamaca Mountains to San Diego. Cost $20,000.00 per mile." Also added in pencil, "San Diego County, Flume carrying water to city from Cuyamaca Mts. Hardy 1945." The depiction is a view of the trestle with mountains in the distance among the natural terrain of San Diego.
Type
Visual Materials(Opens in new tab)
Production date
approximately 1886-1910.
Call number
photPF 3828
Provenance
Acquired from various sources.
Restrictions
Open for use by qualified researchers and by appointment. Please contact Reader Services at the Huntington Library for more information.
Rights
The Huntington Library does not require that researchers request permission to quote from or publish images of this material, nor does it charge fees for such activities. The responsibility for identifying the copyright holder, if there is one, and obtaining permission rests with the researcher.
Dimensions
14 x 22 cm
Find out more
View in the Library catalog(Opens in new tab)

You might also be interested in

  • A close-up view of the erection of the trestle of the flume at Tule Plant

    A close-up view of the erection of the trestle of the flume at Tule Plant

    Visual Materials

    A close-up view of the erection of the trestle of the flume at Tule Plant.

    photCL SCE 04 - 00463

  • Image not available

    San Diego Edition

    Manuscripts

    Approx. 75 items: memos, letters, reports and other material related to LAT's San Diego Edition, 1977 - 1981. Notable items: 8-page "Special advertising section," copied from San Diego magazine of 2/15/1978 ; several news releases from LAT related to the start-up of the San Diego Edition ; 10-pp. "San Diego County Edition - Consumer Promotion" ; approx. 10-pp. article copy of San Diego mag., "Now, San Diego County has everything!," (somewhat sarcastic look at what SD mag considered the colonization of the county by LAT); letter from Stickell for SD Mayor Pete WIlson ; multi-page packet (bright orange) of "Display advertising" figures for San Diego edition. 21-pp. text of speech, "Tom Johnson - San Diego Ad Club..." for use 6/20/1979, with "revised draft" - 6/8/1979.

    mssLAT

  • Image not available

    Old Mission San Louis [sic] Rey, San Diego Co

    Visual Materials

    View of the front facade of the Mission San Luis Rey Mission in San Diego County, California.

    photPF 20121

  • View of flume #14

    View of flume #14

    Visual Materials

    View of flume #14, a ditch full of water, and a transmission pole at Kaweah #2 Hydro Plant, showing the mountains in the background, November 10, 1904.

    photCL SCE 04 - 00062

  • Image not available

    Views of Southern California including the San Gabriel Mountains and San Diego County

    Visual Materials

    5 snapshots taken by Mary Augusta Nailen in 1925 of the Pacific Electric Railroad at Mount Lowe and Echo Mountain and the chapel at Switzer's Falls in the San Gabriel Mountains, and 4 photographic postcards depicting various tourist sites in the San Gabriel Mountains, Pasadena, and San Diego County, California. Includes one photographic postcard depicting East Green Street, Pasadena, looking East from Los Robles, 1930 (photPF 20066); one photograph of an automobile stage on road to Mount Wilson (photPF 20067); two photographic postcards by Frashers Foto, Pomona of the Old Spanish Light House, Point Loma, Calif., ca. 1931 (photPF 20068-20069); and one photographic postcard shows the highway in Encinitas, California, ca. 1929 (photPF 20070).

    photPF 20061-20070

  • Men at work on trestle bridge crossing Arroyo Seco

    Men at work on trestle bridge crossing Arroyo Seco

    Visual Materials

    Several men work on top of a railroad trestle bridge of the Los Angeles and San Gabriel Valley Railroad that crosses the wide dry river bed of the Arroyo Seco near Pasadena, California. Loose railroad ties are scattered on either side of the structure.

    photPF 569