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Title: Dynamite in the L.A. Aqueduct
Alternative Title: Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
Date Created and/or Issued: 1928
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: Photo shows a box of dynamite in the Los Angeles aqueduct, which led investigators to discoveries which will result in many arrests. The dynamite was let down by a rope through a manhole and was expected to float into No Name siphon, and explode there, but it failed to go off despite waterproof fuses and electric contact. Photo dated: February 22, 1928.
Type: image
Format: 1 photograph :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00041984
Herald Examiner Collection
HE box 1071.
CARL0000046044
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/13388
Subject: Water-supply--California
Aqueducts--California
Explosions--California
Dynamite--California
Los Angeles Aqueduct (Calif.)
Owens Valley (Calif.)
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs

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