File:Solar motor for pumping water near Phoenix Arizona, ca.1903 (CHS-1304).jpg

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Solar motor for pumping water near Phoenix Arizona, ca.1903
Photograph of a solar motor near Phoenix, Arizona, showing detail of boiler where 2000 mirrors focus on sun's rays. It pumps water for irrigation. Gear mechanism in the left foreground rotates the dish-shaped mirror to follow the sun.
Call number: CHS-1304
Filename: CHS-1304
Coverage date: circa 1903
Part of collection: California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960
Format: glass plate negatives
Type: images
Geographic subject (city or populated place): Phoenix
Repository name: USC Libraries Special Collections
Accession number: 1304
Microfiche number: 1-110-4
Archival file: chs_Volume71/CHS-1304.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 : glass photonegative, photoprint, b&w ; 22 x 17 cm.
Rights: Digitally reproduced by the USC Digital Library; From the California Historical Society Collection at the University of Southern California
Subject (adlf): industrial sites
Project: USC
Repository email: specol@usc.edu
Contributing entity: California Historical Society
Date created: circa 1903
Publisher (of the digital version): University of Southern California. Libraries
Format (aat): photographic prints; photographs
Geographic subject (state): Arizona
Legacy record ID: chs-m10066; USC-1-1-1-10206; USC-1-1-1-14017
Access conditions: Send requests to address or e-mail given. Phone (213) 821-2366; fax (213) 740-2343.
Subject (file heading): Industry -- Plants -- Installations -- Exteriors; Outside California -- Arizona -- Phoenix
Subject (lcsh): Solar energy; Water-supply
Subject: Irrigation & Water
Date circa 1903
date QS:P,+1903-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902
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Source http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/ref/collection/p15799coll65/id/10302
Author Unknown authorUnknown author

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