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Title
Steam shovel Number Four of the Mojave Division on Los Angeles Aqueduct construction
Publication Information
University of Southern California. Libraries
Contributing Institution
California Historical Society
University of Southern California Digital Library
Collection
California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960
Rights Information
Doheny Memorial Library, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0189
Public Domain. Release under the CC BY Attribution license--http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/--Credit both “University of Southern California. Libraries” and “California Historical Society” as the source. Digitally reproduced by the USC Digital Library; From the California Historical Society Collection at the University of Southern California
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Description
Photograph of steam shovel Number Four of the Mojave Division on Los Angeles Aqueduct construction, [s.d.]. The front-end tractor is shown at center, a man standing on the roof of its cabin. Farther in, seven men are positioned on top of one of the two sand mounds that flank the shovel. A ninth man stands on the arm of the steam shovel.
Type
image
Format
1 photograph : photoprint, b&w
21 x 26 cm.
photographic prints
photographs
Identifier
chs-m20509 [Legacy record ID]
CHS-37028
http://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m20509
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/CHS-37028.jpg
Subject
Engineering--Aqueducts #6--Los Angeles Aqueduct
Los Angeles Department of Water and Power
Water-supply
Aqueducts
Engineers
Deserts
Place
California
Los Angeles
USA
Source
37028 [Accession number]
CHS-37028 [Call number]
California Historical Society [Contributing entity]
Relation
California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960
Los Angeles Area Chamber of Commerce Collection, 1890-1960
chs-m825

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