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Close-up view of a large section of dynamited pipe along the Los Angeles Aqueduct in No-Name Canyon, Inyo County vicinity, [about 1927]

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Title: Close-up view of a large section of dynamited 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.
Water flows over a bed of rocks in the foreground at center. Beyond the water and to the right, a large, mangled section of aqueduct pipe enters frame and extends on an angle towards the left. As it stretches towards the left, the metal begins to twist. Another part of the pipe lies to the left of it. Behind the pipe, a man stands in the near distance at left. Another pipe enters frame from the right and disappears behind the damaged pipe. This second pipe appears to be intact. A rocky hillside rises in the distance at right. Silhouetted mountains and a basin are visible in the far distance at left.
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 viewed from a different angle 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_5810
ark:/21198/zz002cvwzw
Language: No linguistic content
Subject: Bombings--California--Inyo County
Pipes (Conduits)--California--Inyo County
Los Angeles Aqueduct (Calif.)
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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