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. The details of the rigorous construction of the All American Canal. An unidentified man sits in a bulldozer atop a hill. Photograph appears with the article, "Blazing Skies Defied by Hurrying Crews Digging Big Ditch in Desert," Los Angeles Times, 16 Mar 1936: 10. Text from newspaper caption: Above is a view of the tremendous bulldozer that pushes back sand dug out of the all-American canal cut eighteen miles east of Calexico by a huge dragline. Below is a section of the twenty-two miles of canal built with man and mule labor in the Calexico sector. This phase of the job will be done June 1. Text from negative sleeve: 4973 - Shots at the All-American Canal near xxxxxx Calexico, California. (one removed for cleaning) 4/16/36 [stamped:] Apr 23 1936
Type
image
Format
b&w nitrate negative
Identifier
uclamss_1429_14166 ark:/21198/zz002j7q1h
Language
No linguistic content
Subject
Sand--California--Calexico Bulldozers All American Canal (Calif.)
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