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Workers and an olive oil press, San Fernando, Los Angeles, ca.1900 (CHS-5360)

Workers and an olive oil press, San Fernando, Los Angeles, ca.1900 Photograph of workers and an olive oil press, Sylmar area, northeastern San Fernando Valley (rural Los Angeles), ca.1900. Two workers are working on the filtering process in the olive mill. The mill is directly behind the area the men are working at. Filter plates (screens?) are lifted by hydraulic or mechanical lifts to a position where the men can load the plates underneath the end of a funnel out of which the olive oil will fl

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Workers bottling olive oil, San Fernando Valley, Los Angeles, ca.1900 (CHS-5358)

Workers bottling olive oil, San Fernando Valley, Los Angeles, ca.1900 Photograph of workers bottling olive oil, Sylmar area, northeastern San Fernando Valley, Los Angeles, ca.1900. The room's roof is comprised of a framework of horizontal wooden beams supported by rows of wooden posts. To the left are rows of metallic barrels lines up on pallets or some type of wooden structure. The barrels are covered with cloths. At right are cylindrical vats(?) situated on top of tall wooden tables. In the ce

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Pacific DC Intertie with Cell Phone Tower disguised as a tree

Pacific DC Intertie (L) and Cell Phone Tower disguised as a tree (R), in Sylmar, California

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Pacific DC Intertie at Sylmar California

Pacific DC Intertie at Sylmar California, seen from Interstate 5

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Burned mobile home neighborhood in California edit

The remains of a mobile home park in Sylmar, California. 480 of the park's 600 mobile homes were burned in the Sayre Fire in November 2008. The homes in the background that did not sustain fire damage become uninhabitable due to the lack of utilities.

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Floods - California - Bueena Park through Yoba Linda - NARA - 68157379

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Baist's real estate atlas of surveys of Los Angeles, California, 1921 (31384)

Baist's real estate atlas of surveys of Los Angeles, California, 1921 Covers the area of Los Angeles in a roughly 6-7 mile concentric circle centered on Broadway and First Street in downtown Los Angeles. Includes index to tracts additions and subdivisions, tract maps, and the San Fernando Valley. "Complete in one volume, compiled and published from official records, private records, actual surveys" -- title page. Geographic Coordinates: 34.0500,-118.2500 Legacy Record ID: rbm-m Filename: rbm-a-

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