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Title: Washing clothes at the Zanja Madre
Alternative Title: Security Pacific National Bank Photo Collection
Date Created and/or Issued: Circa 1900
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: View of three women and two children washing clothes at the Zanja Madre (Mother Ditch). A few small buildings, visible throughout the image, appear to serve as barns. The Zanja Madre system ran from the Los Angeles River for more than a mile to the plaza, where the Olvera Street marketplace is now. Residents not only got their drinking water from the ditch, but the surrounding vineyards and farmland were also irrigated by its water.
Type: Image
Format: 1 photograph :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00066847
Security Pacific National Bank Collection
Industries-Water and Power-Water-Early development.; A-011-870 4x5
CARL0000070214
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/109601
Subject: Women--California--Los Angeles
Water-supply--California--Los Angeles
Barns--California--Los Angeles
Children--California--Los Angeles

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