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Metropolitan Water District workmen celebrate the completion of a water tunnel to supply Los Angeles with Colorado River water, Pasadena, 1937

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Title: Metropolitan Water District workmen celebrate the completion of a water tunnel to supply Los Angeles with Colorado River water, Pasadena, 1937
Date Created and/or Issued: March 17, 1937
1937-03-17
Publication Information: Los Angeles Daily News
Contributing Institution: UCLA, Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library
Collection: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives
Rights Information: US
Description: Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds.
Metropolitan Water District workmen celebrate the completion of a water tunnel. The tunnel was part of a distributing system that brought Colorado River water to Los Angeles and surrounding communities.
Text from original nitrate sleeve: L.A. Aqueduct -- Pasadena Tunnel. This tunnel was completed yesterday afternoon. It was started February 21 and is 3-1/3 miles long. Truck dumping last batch of concrete aggregate into mixing machinery used in connection with lining of Pasadena Tunnel on the Metropolitan Aqueduct.
Type: image
Format: b&w nitrate negative
Identifier: ark:/21198/zz00288hh0
Language: No linguistic content
Subject: Water supply--California--Pasadena
Government
Tunnels--California--Los Angeles
Business
Metropolitan Water District of Southern California (Calif.)--Employees
Source: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

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