A view of early pipe used for building the L.A. Aqueduct to Owens Valley, done between 1907 and 1913. The aqueduct was considered the 2nd greatest engineering accomplishment of its age, after the Panama Canal. Here men are working with a large pipe being buried in a trench.
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