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Title: Water release from the Santa Anita Dam, Sierra Madre, 1930s
Date Created and/or Issued: [1930s]
1930/1939
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
Description: Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds.
Access to this collection is generously supported by Haynes Foundation funds.
Santa Anita Dam is a concrete thin arch dam on Santa Anita Creek in the San Gabriel Mountains, north of Sierra Madre, Arcadia and Monrovia, which serves for flood control, water conservation and debris control. The dam was built between 1923 and 1927.
Workers engaged in releasing water from the Santa Anita Dam.
Text from negative sleeve: Dams, Santa Anita
Type: image
Format: b&w nitrate negative
Identifier: uclamss_1429_1801
ark:/21198/zz002dcp2p
Language: No linguistic content
Subject: Santa Anita Dam (Calif.)
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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