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Title: Sawpit Canyon Dam, aerial view
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: Aerial view of Sawpit Canyon Dam located beyond Monrovia. The dam is 160 ft. high with a 57 ft. base. Construction was completed in June 1927, in plenty of time to impound the waters from the season's first rainfall. The record construction work of the district protects 120 miles of the 300 miles of stream channels, according to Engineer Eaton. Photo dated: December 13, 1927.
Type: image
Format: 1 photograph :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00045105
Herald Examiner Collection
HE Box-1951.
CARL0000049375
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/15778
Subject: Dams--California
Sawpit Canyon Dam (Calif.)
Aerial photographs
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs

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