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Title: Colorado Aqueduct relief map
Alternative Title: Security Pacific National Bank Photo Collection
Date Created and/or Issued: Circa 1930
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: Two women pose with a large relief map showing the route of the proposed Colorado Aqueduct, including the Calajo Reservoir and Pine Canyon Reservoir and water lines to the Southern California communities. In 1931, in the midst of the Depression, voters in the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California approved a bond issue of $220 million to build the Colorado Aqueduct.
Type: image
Format: 2 photographic prints :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00009570
Security Pacific National Bank Collection
Industries-Water and Power-Water-Colorado Aqueduct.; N-004-261.1-.2 4x5
CARL0000011547
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/83838
Subject: Water resources development--West (U.S.)
Water-supply--California, Southern--Maps
Aqueducts--West (U.S.)--Maps
Relief models
Maps
Colorado River Aqueduct

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