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 Arcadia funds. Related to Los Angeles Times article, May 23, 1924, Quick Grand Jury Action Pledged in Bomb Plot, Inyo Prosecutor Gets Evidence Pointing to Mojave Desert Ranchers, Owens Stockmen. Desert ranchers from Mojave and cattle owners and ranchers from the Owens Valley, moving in swift automobiles and with their faces covered, blew up the Los Angeles Aqueduct early Wednesday morning at the spillway three miles north of Lone Pine, according to evidence … Negative damaged or bent at top Damaged or open section of aqueduct pipe on concrete braces, spilling water, with man standing on pipe, shed, shrubs, and trees at left, large flooded area with mud, rocks, and plants in foreground Text from nitrate negative sleeve: [Typewritten:] Los Angeles Aqueduct [Handwritten:] bombing
Type
image
Format
b&w nitrate negative
Identifier
uclamss_1429_0153 0153 ark:/21198/zz002d9cc3
Language
No linguistic content
Subject
Disaster Bombings--California--Inyo County Government Environment Los Angeles Aqueduct (Calif.) Floods--California
Source
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection OpenUCLA Collections
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