Los Angeles River at Griffith Park, ca.1898-1910 (CHS-2033)

Los Angeles River at Griffith Park, ca.1898-1910
Photograph of the Los Angeles River on the north side of Griffith Park, ca.1898-1910.
A man in a bowler hat is sitting on the bank watching the river flow through the sluice gate of a water ditch.
Relatively still waters in the foreground. Trees and foliated hills in background.;
Originally, the record was entitled as "Headwaters of the Los Angeles River at Griffith Park". The Los Angeles River's headwaters, however, are farther NW in the western San Fernando Valley, in Canoga Park.



Call number: CHS-2033
Filename: CHS-2033
Coverage date: 1898/1910
Part of collection: California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960
Format: glass plate negatives
Type: images
Geographic subject (city or populated place): Griffith Park; Los Angeles
Repository name: USC Libraries Special Collections
Accession number: 2033
Microfiche number: 1-91-; 1-110-
Archival file: chs_Volume34/CHS-2033.tiff
Part of subcollection: Title Insurance and Trust, and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection, 1860-1960
Repository address: Doheny Memorial Library, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0189
Geographic subject (country): USA
Format (aacr2): 2 photographs : photoprints, b&w ; 21 x 26 cm.
Rights: Digitally reproduced by the USC Digital Library; From the California Historical Society Collection at the University of Southern California
Subject (adlf): hydrographic structures
Project: USC
Repository email: [email protected]
Contributing entity: California Historical Society
Date created: 1898/1910
Publisher (of the digital version): University of Southern California. Libraries
Format (aat): photographic prints; photographs
Geographic subject (state): California
Subject (file heading): Los Angeles -- Parks -- Griffith Park; Engineering -- Aqueducts -- General; Los Angeles -- Los Angeles River
Legacy record ID: chs-m2357; USC-0-1-1-2418; USC-0-1-1-10217
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): Parks; Rivers; Water-supply