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Blown-out section of pipe along the Los Angeles Aqueduct in No-Name Canyon, Inyo County vicinity, [about 1927]

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Title: Blown-out section of pipe along 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.
This photograph is very similar to another 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
An aqueduct pipe in the mid-ground enters frame from the left and stretches across the image and towards a hillside at right. Concrete feet elevate the pipe above the ground. It stops at the base of the hillside where a section of crumpled and twisted metal pipe sits. The damaged section of pipe stretches towards camera at right. The hillside slopes upwards to the right. Water flows down the hillside towards the pipes. Some water flows beside the damaged pipe and towards camera. A wooden barrier stretches across the foreground. Rubble and rocks are strewn across the ground beneath the pipes. Mountains rise in the far distance at left.
A different photograph of the same damaged Los Angeles Aqueduct pipe 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
Text from negative sleeve: LOS ANGELES AQUEDUCT [handwritten:] Los Angeles Aqueduct
Type: Image
Format: b&w nitrate negative
Identifier: uclamss_1429_5797
ark:/21198/zz002cvwh5
Language: No linguistic content
Subject: Pipes (Conduits)--California--Inyo County
Bombings--California--Inyo County
Los Angeles Aqueduct (Calif.)
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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