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Title: Moving mountains in Lopez Canyon
Alternative Title: Valley Times Photo Collection
Creator: Flint, Porter
Contributor: This project was supported in whole or in part by the U.S. Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act, administered in California by the State Librarian
Made accessible through a grant from the John Randolph Haynes and Dora Haynes Foundation and Photo Friends
Date Created and/or Issued: 1957
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: Title supplied by cataloger.
Refuse collected from dozens of Valley communities is trucked in a steady stream to this well hidden dump in Lopez Canyon within five minutes drive of the City of San Fernando. This view looking southerly shows 80-foot fill of canyon. Area will be utilized later for industrial developments. Hill in foreground has been cut down 40 feet. Photograph dated April 22, 1957.; See images #00144677 through #00144683 for all photos in this series.
Type: image
Format: 1 photographic print :b&w ;21 x 26 cm.
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00144679
Valley Times Collection
HCNVT_d053_f25_i25
CARL0005861962
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/73148
Subject: Sanitary landfills--California--Los Angeles County
Refuse and refuse disposal--California--Los Angeles County
Earthmoving machinery--California--Los Angeles County
Mountains--California, Southern
San Gabriel Mountains (Calif.)
Lopez Canyon (Los Angeles County, Calif.)
Los Angeles County (Calif.)
Panoramic views
Valley Times Collection photographs
Time Period: 1951-1960

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