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Title: Dragline excavator on Hansen Dam construction site, San Fernando Valley, 1938
Date Created and/or Issued: 1938
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.
A dragline excavator on top of a hill at the Hansen Dam construction site.
This photograph appears with the article, "MECHANICAL GIANTS TESTED ON VALLEY FLOOD PROJECT," Los Angeles Times, 1 Jan. 1939: A6.
Text from newspaper caption: Dragline shown at work in San Fernando Valley
Text from negative sleeve: 14409 / (Bldg of Hansen Dam, 1938?)
Type: image
Format: b&w nitrate negative
Identifier: uclamss_1429_11672
ark:/21198/zz002h8gbt
Language: No linguistic content
Subject: Construction--California--Los Angeles
Dam construction
Dams--California--Los Angeles County
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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