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Title
Bouquet Dam
Alternative Title
Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
Date Created and/or Issued
1934
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
Upstream view of Bouquet Dam on April 10, 1934, said to be the largest and most modern earth-fill dam in the United States. The dam is 50 feet wide at the crest, 1160 feet long, and about one quarter-mile thick at the base.
Type
image
Format
1 photograph :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier
00044521
Herald Examiner Collection
HE box 1071.
CARL0000048454
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/14497
Subject
Water-supply--California
Dams--California
Reservoirs--California
Los Angeles Aqueduct (Calif.)
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs

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