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Title
It's the water
Alternative Title
Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
Creator
Musgrove, Dean
Contributor
Made accessible through a grant from the John Randolph Haynes and Dora Haynes Foundation
Date Created and/or Issued
1988
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 Colorado River Aqueduct begins at the Parker Dam southeast of Lake Havasu City, Arizona, and terminates at Lake Mathews in western Riverside County, Calif. It was constructed between 1933-1941 by the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California. Conceived by William Mulholland and designed by Frank E. Weymouth, it was the largest public works project in southern California during the Great Depression. The project employed 30,000 people over an eight-year period and as many as 10,000 at one time.
Photograph caption reads: "Colorado River aqueduct provides liquid lifeline to farmers in the Imperial Valley". Photograph dated: Oct. 18, 1988.; Aerial view of the Colorado River Aqueduct as it wends its way through the desert like a broken dotted line.
Type
image
Format
1 photographic print :b&w ;31 x 28 cm.
Photographic prints
Identifier
00077907
Herald Examiner Collection
HH_b036_f5_i13
CARL0000078869
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/24932
Subject
Aqueducts--West (U.S.)--Aerial views
Water-supply--California, Southern
Colorado River Aqueduct--Aerial views
Aerial photographs
Los Angeles Herald-Examiner photographs
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs
Mulholland, William,1855-1935
Weymouth, F. E.(Frank Elwin),1874-1941

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