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Title: Pacoima Dam
Alternative Title: Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
Date Created and/or Issued: 1929
Contributing Institution: Los Angeles Public Library
Collection: Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection
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Description: View of Pacoima dam showing it when the highest secton stood 255 feet above the water line and was then 20 feet shy of completion. The dam, now completed, is 375 feet high. Here we have 100 feet below water, plus 255 feet above water. This looks down on the dam from above where 12,000 acre feet of water will be impounded. It is an arch type structure and is prounced absolutely safe. Photographd March 13, 1929.
Type: image
Format: 1 photograph :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00046394
Herald Examiner Collection
HE box 1951
CARL0000051146
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/16816
Subject: Dams--California--Los Angeles County
Mountains--California, Southern
Pacoima Dam (Calif.)
San Gabriel Muntains (Calif.)
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs

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