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Title: Men at the wheels opening Los Angeles Aqueduct at Sylmar Gates
Date Created and/or Issued: 1913-11
Contributing Institution: Huntington Library
Collection: Photographs
Rights Information: For information on using Huntington Library materials, please see Reproductions of Huntington Library Holdings: https://www.huntington.org/library-rights-permissions
Description: Image of men at the wheels after the opening of the head water gates for the Los Angeles Aqueduct in present-day Sylmar, California, at the opening ceremony on November 5, 1913.
"Ernie from Hubert"--text, handwritten in pencil on verso. Title devised by cataloger; date supplied by cataloger based on similar images with the same people at the opening ceremony. The Los Angeles Department of Water and Power Photo Collection identifies the men who opened the gates as Roderick Mackay, chief construction engineer; H. A. Van Norman, Owens Valley division engineer; D. L. Reaburn, Saugus division engineer; A. C. Hansen, Jawbone Division engineer, and Adna R. Chaffee, Jr., U. S. Army
Type: image
Format: image/jpeg
Extent: 1 photograph : print ; sheet 13.8 x 8.7 cm (postcard format)
Identifier: photCL_555
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15150coll2/id/19138
Subject: Los Angeles Aqueduct (Calif.)
Aqueducts
Dedications
Rites and ceremonies
Sluice gates
Water resources development--California
Water-supply--California--Los Angeles
Photographs. (aat)
Place: Sylmar (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Source: Photographs, Huntington Digital Library

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