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Title: Los Angeles Aqueduct siphon
Alternative Title: Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
Date Created and/or Issued: 1926
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: The famous Jawbone siphon of the Los Angeles Owens River aqueduct, built by Mr. Mulholland, which crosses two mountain ranges and the Mojave Desert to bring the city its water supply from the snow-capped High Sierras--a 250-mile journey. Photo date: December 13, 1926.
Type: image
Format: 1 photograph :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00044504
Herald Examiner Collection
HE box 1071.
CARL0000048439
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/14480
Subject: Water-supply--California
Aqueducts--California
Los Angeles Aqueduct (Calif.)
Owens Valley (Calif.)
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs

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