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Title: Great siphon ripped by explosion, 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: Two sections of the Grapevine siphon of the Los Angeles aqueduct were dynamited today in a new outbreak of the clash between the city and the Owens Valley ranchers, over water rights. Photo shows a section of the famous No Name siphon, broken after it was dynamited. The Grapevine siphon is situated seven miles to the south of No Name siphon.
Type: image
Format: 1 photograph :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00041990
Herald Examiner Collection
HE box 1071.; HE-002-166 4x5
CARL0000046049
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/13393
Subject: Water-supply--California
Aqueducts--California
Explosions--California
Los Angeles Aqueduct (Calif.)
Owens Valley (Calif.)
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs

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