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Title: View showing the submerged dam in Pacoima Canyon
Contributor: Lenz & Widney
Date Created and/or Issued: [between 1905 and 1912]
Publication Information: Los Angeles, Calif. : Lenz & Widney
Contributing Institution: California State Library
Collection: California History Section Picture Catalog
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Description: Plates in: Mulholland, "The pay roll town of the San Fernando Valley", pg. 16.
Men, women and children standing among wooden platforms, ditch.
Ca0597.
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.
Pacoima Submerged Dam built across Pacoima Creek in San Fernando Valley to create underground reservoir. Constructed by digging down to bedrock, two gathering wells included.
Type: image
Format: Photographs.
Nonprojected graphic
Extent: 1 photographic print ; 7 1/2 x 9 1/2 in.
Identifier: (C)001435707CSL01-Aleph
Language: English
Subject: Dams--California--Pacoima Canyon
Construction workers--California--Pacoima Canyon
Mountains--California
Pacoima Canyon (Calif.)--Photographs
San Fernando Valley (Calif.)--Photographs
Photographic prints
Photograph albums
Place: California
Pacoima Canyon
Pacoima Canyon (Calif.)
San Fernando Valley (Calif.)

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