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Title: How Hansen Dam was built
Alternative Title: Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
Date Created and/or Issued: 1940
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: This photo shows how Hansen Dam was built. Over the earth was spread a 6-inch layer of gravel, left. Over this was placed a thick layer of rock, right. The rock was dumped by the 30-ton truck at top, which was lowered by derrick from ramp where it was filled.
Type: image
Format: 1 photograph :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00059991
Herald Examiner Collection
HE Box 8999.
CARL0000064340
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/23395
Subject: Dams--California--San Fernando Valley
Hansen Dam (Calif.)
San Fernando Valley (Calif.)
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs

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