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Title: Work on south branch of Gray Ridge Road
Creator: Lippincott, Joseph Barlow, 1864-1942
Date Created and/or Issued: 1908 June 21
Contributing Institution: UC Riverside, Library, Water Resources Collections and Archives
Collection: Joseph Barlow Lippincott papers
Rights Information: Public Domain
Material in the public domain. No restrictions on use.
Description: Scope/Content: Men digging.
Annotations/Markings: "leading into Water Canyon. The method of work consists in drilling deep holes along the upper side of the road, springing these holed with dynamite, then loading the cavities with black powder which breaks and throws the rock from its original position as shown in view. (J.B.L. - June 21, 1908)"
Type: image
Format: 1 photograph
Form/Genre: photographs
Identifier: ark:/13030/hb6m3nb3tf
cuwr_052_078_141_0241
Language: English
eng
Subject: Aqueducts--California
Aqueducts--Design and construction
Water resources development--California
Water supply--California
Metropolitan Water District of Southern California (Calif.)
Place: Los Angeles Aqueduct (Calif.)
Relation: Western Waters Digital Library
Provenance: Donated to the Water Resources Collections & Archives by Kenneth Q. Volk and Bette Volk of Los Angeles, 1967.
Location: Box 78

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