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Title
Hard-rock miners in the San Jacinto tunnel, Banning, 1938
Date Created and/or Issued
November 21, 1938
1938-11-21
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.
After much speculation and many setbacks, the water tunnel through the San Jacinto Mountains has finally been completed.
Five hard-rock miners look at an object in the San Jacinto tunnnel. This photograph was taken when the tunnel was completed.
Text from negative sleeve: 15011 [mining? 11-21-38 doesn't seem to be what comes up in neg# search: Mayor Bowron Roger Jessup (Chairman of Board of Sups)
Handwritten on negative: 11-21-38
Type
image
Format
b&w nitrate negative
Identifier
uclamss_1429_11745
ark:/21198/zz002h8k66
Subject
San Jacinto Mountains (Calif.)
Miners--California--Banning
Source
OpenUCLA Collections
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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