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Title: Burbank fears no water shortage
Alternative Title: Valley Times Photo Collection
Contributor: This project was supported in whole or in part by the U.S. Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act, administered in California by the State Librarian
Made accessible through a grant from the John Randolph Haynes and Dora Haynes Foundation and Photo Friends
Date Created and/or Issued: 1957
Contributing Institution: Los Angeles Public Library
Collection: Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection
Rights Information: Images available for reproduction and use. Please see the Ordering & Use page at http://tessa.lapl.org/OrderingUse.html for additional information.
Description: Photograph caption dated August 12, 1957 reads, "And not a drop to drink - Some 11,000,000 gallons of Burbank water is hidden from view as 22 inches of soil and landscaping cover city's newest reservoir. Small pumping station, left, is only telltale structure at new Palm drive and Sunset Canyon drive facility. Burbank's total water consumption last month averaged 30,561,639 gallons per day, a new all-time record."
Type: Image
Format: 1 photographic print :b&w ;15 x 20 cm.
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00129719
Valley Times Collection
HCNVT_d035_f5_i15
CARL0005469698
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/60502
Subject: Pumping stations--California--Burbank (Los Angeles County)
Reservoirs--California--Burbank (Los Angeles County)
Streets--California--Burbank (Los Angeles County)
Burbank (Los Angeles County, Calif.)
Valley Times Collection photographs

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