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Two men stand atop a blast-damaged section of the Los Angeles Aqueduct in No-Name Canyon, Inyo County vicinity, [about 1927]

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Title: Two men stand atop a blast-damaged section of the Los Angeles Aqueduct in No-Name Canyon, Inyo County vicinity, [about 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.
Two men stand at the end of a length of blast-damaged pipe and appear to inspect it. The large segment of aqueduct pipe is viewed close-up in the foreground. Its mangled form stretches back on an angle to the right. The two men stand at the far end of the pipe at right. The leftmost man crouches down and the rightmost man stands. Another section of damaged pipe appears to emerge from beneath the left side of the near pipe. It extends upward on an angle to the left and out-of-frame. In the near distance, an intact section of the aqueduct enters frame from the right and stretches towards the left where it meets a hillside.
This photograph is 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
Possibly related to a similar image 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
Text from negative sleeve: LOS ANGELES AQUEDUCT [handwritten:] Los Angeles Aqueduct
Type: Image
Format: b&w nitrate negative
Identifier: uclamss_1429_5794
ark:/21198/zz002cvwdm
Language: No linguistic content
Subject: Pipes (Conduits)--California--Inyo County
Bombings--California--Inyo County
Investigation--California--Inyo County
Los Angeles Aqueduct (Calif.)
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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