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Title
Owens River Aqueduct, ca.1920
Date Created and/or Issued
circa 1920
Publication Information
University of Southern California. Libraries
Contributing Institution
California Historical Society
University of Southern California Digital Library
Collection
California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960
Rights Information
Doheny Memorial Library, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0189
Public Domain. Release under the CC BY Attribution license--http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/--Credit both “University of Southern California. Libraries” and “California Historical Society” as the source. Digitally reproduced by the USC Digital Library; From the California Historical Society Collection at the University of Southern California
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Description
Photograph of a view of the Owens River Aqueduct pipes next to a road, ca.1920. The dirt road extends from the center foreground to the right distance where the grassy hillside stands. Grass and electrical poles line the right side of the road while the aqueduct lies on the left. The pipe is thick and darkly-colored on top of concrete supports. A man examines the pipe at center.
Type
image
Format
2 photographs : photoprints, b&w
19 x 23 cm., 26 x 21 cm.
photographic prints
photographs
Identifier
chs-m10230
USC-0-1-1-10375 [Legacy record ID]
CHS-36288
http://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m10230
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/CHS-36288.jpg
Subject
Aqueducts
Engineering--Aqueducts #1--General
Engineering--Aqueducts #6--Los Angeles Aqueduct
Roadways
Time Period
circa 1920
Place
California
USA
Source
36288 [Accession number]
CHS-36288 [Call number]
California Historical Society [Contributing entity]
Relation
California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960
Los Angeles Area Chamber of Commerce Collection, 1890-1960
USC
chs-m825

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