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Water flows down a hillside and towards blast-damaged pipes of the Los Angeles Aqueduct in No-Name Canyon, Inyo County vicinity, [circa 1927]

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Title: Water flows down a hillside and towards blast-damaged pipes of the Los Angeles Aqueduct in No-Name Canyon, Inyo County vicinity, [circa 1927]
Date Created and/or Issued: [circa May, 1927]
Publication Information: Los Angeles Times
Contributing Institution: UCLA, Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library
Collection: Los Angeles Times Photographic Archives
Rights Information: US
UCLA Library Special Collections, A1713 Charles E. Young Research Library, Box 951575, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575. Email: spec-coll@library.ucla.edu. Phone: (310) 825-4988
Description: Access to this collection is generously supported by Haynes Foundation funds.
Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds.
A few damaged aqueduct pipes lie at the base of a hillside in the foreground at center. The largest segment is shaped like a flume and stretches back on a slight upward angle from right to left. A crumpled and twisted segment lies to the left of it in the shape of an "L." A smaller segment sits to the right. The rock-strewn hillside extends upward on a slight angle to the left. To the right of the pipes, water cascades down the hillside, emanating from a broken pipe near the upper left corner.
This photograph is possibly related to a similar one of a damaged aqueduct pipe captioned, "Views in Owens River Valley Above—The power plant, X showing where second explosion took place. Center—The blown out section of pipe. Below—No Name Canyon, scene of Friday’s dynamiting," Los Angeles Times, 29 May 1927: 2
Possibly related to a different photograph of a damaged Los Angeles Aqueduct pipe that appears with the article, "Six Hundred Police Ready to Balk New Dynamiting: Squad Rushed to Owens Valley after Second Aqueduct Outrage at Big Pine Power House Police Ready to Rush North," Los Angeles Times, 29 May 1927: 1
Handwritten text from negative sleeve: L.A. Aqueduct
Type: Image
Format: b&w nitrate negative
Identifier: uclamss_1429_5751
ark:/21198/zz002cvtxd
Language: No linguistic content
Subject: Pipes (Conduits)--California--Inyo County
Bombings--California--Inyo County
Water
Los Angeles Aqueduct (Calif.)
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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