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. A man can be seen sitting atop the large piece of machinery. Large mountains of dirt are on either side of him and the earth is covered in tire tracks from the equipment. Photograph appears with the article, "Huge Flood Curb Project Soon To Give Jobs To 2000," Los Angeles Times, 14 Jan 1939: A8. The Prado Dam is to be the largest project in the history of Orange County, costing $7,000,000 for a county-wide flood control and water conservation program, which is using hundreds of men to complete the job with scores of costly machines. Text from negative sleeve: 15399 - PRADO DAM Above Santa Ana Construction work [stamped:] Jan 23 1939 [stamped:] Jan 25 1939 Text from newspaper caption: Equipment is shown throwing up earth-fill structure that will extend for mile and which will form huge lake at Prado in extensive flood and water-conservation project.
Type
image
Format
b&w nitrate negative
Identifier
uclamss_1429_14789 ark:/21198/zz002j8fhb
Language
No linguistic content
Subject
Dam construction--California--Prado Dam Flood control--California--Prado Dam Conservation of natural resources--California--Prado Dam Dirt Machinery
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