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Description
Plates in: Mulholland, "The pay roll town of the San Fernando Valley", pg. 11, 14. View 1. (ca0592). Picture showing development work of Tejunga Water & Power Co. in the Big Tejunga Canyon. Shows wooden structure, trench, concrete mixer in background, construction workers. "The substructure of this great dam goes to bed rock and is being raised from the surface of the canyon 230 feet in the air, thus impounding both the subterranean and surplus winter surface flow of a rain shed of 147 square miles" (part of caption) -- view 2 (ca0595). Another picture of the work on the great dam of the Tejunga Water & Power Company. Walter M. Lenz and Robert J. Widney, sales agents for project to develop town of Mulholland and Mulholland Hills in San Fernando Valley. Project developed by Mulholland Development Company, opened to public Nov. 10, 1912.
Type
image
Format
Photographs. Nonprojected graphic
Extent
2 photographic prints ; 9 3/4 x 7 3/4 in.
Identifier
(C)001435678CSL01-Aleph
Language
English
Subject
Tejunga Water & Power Company--Photographs Dam construction--California--San Fernando Valley Concrete mixers--California--San Fernando Valley Construction workers--California--San Fernando Valley San Fernando Valley (Calif.)--Photographs Photographic prints Photograph albums
Place
California San Fernando Valley San Fernando Valley (Calif.)
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