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Title
Aqueduct blast
Alternative Title
Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
Date Created and/or Issued
1927
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
A guard stands over the six-foot concrete wall of the L.A. aqueduct which was shattered by dynamite, eight miles below the Alabama Hills dam. This is the fourth blast within the month. Photo dated: June 20, 1927.
Type
Image
Format
1 photograph :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier
00041987
Herald Examiner Collection
HE box 1071.; HE-002-165 4x5
CARL0000046046
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/13389
Subject
Water-supply--California
Aqueducts--California
Explosions--California
Los Angeles Aqueduct (Calif.)
Owens Valley (Calif.)
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs

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