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Title: Big Dalton Dam
Alternative Title: Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
Date Created and/or Issued: 1939
Contributing Institution: Los Angeles Public Library
Collection: Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection
Rights Information: Images available for reproduction and use. Please see the Ordering & Use page at http://tessa.lapl.org/OrderingUse.html for additional information.
Description: Photo from the Los Angeles County Flood Control District.
Completed in 1929, the Big Dalton Dam is located in Dalton Canyon, four miles northeast of Glendora. It controls, desilts and conserves flood water. It contained 70 acre feet of water on June 3, 1950, compared with its storage capacity of 952 acre feet. Photo date: May 3, 1939.
Type: image
Format: 1 photograph :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00049709
Herald Examiner Collection
He box 2834.
CARL0000053776
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/18339
Subject: Reservoirs--California--Los Angeles County
Flood control--California--Los Angeles County
Dams--California--Los Angeles County
Water-supply--California--Los Angeles County
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs

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