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Title: Soledad siphon
Alternative Title: Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
Date Created and/or Issued: 1913
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: The south half of the Soledad siphon of the Los Angeles Aqueduct, also called "Mulholland's Folly," when his "crazy scheme" to bring water 250 miles to Los Angeles was under widespread criticism in 1913. Shortly afterward the aqueduct went into successful operation.
Type: image
Format: 1 photograph :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00044527
Herald Examiner Collection
HE box 1071.
CARL0000048460
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/14502
Subject: Water-supply--California
Aqueducts--California
Los Angeles Aqueduct (Calif.)
Owens Valley (Calif.)
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs

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