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Title: Bouquet Reservoir
Alternative Title: Works Progress Administration Photo Collection
Date Created and/or Issued: 1937
Publication Information: Federal Writers' Project
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: View of Bouquet Reservoir, an integral part of the Los Angeles Aqueduct system located about 15 miles west of the city of Palmdale. The dam, built in 1934, has a capacity of 36,500 acre feet and is formed by Bouquet Canyon Dam on Bouquet Creek. Constructed of earthfill, the 190' (58 m) tall dam stores water and regulates releases in case there is an interruption in water movement upstream. Photo dated: April 14, 1937.
Type: image
Format: 1 photographic print :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00071397
Works Progress Administration Collection
WPA 636-A 4x5
CARL0000075148
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/3057
Subject: Water-supply--California
Reservoirs--California--Los Angeles County
Bouquet Reservoir (Calif.)
Los Angeles County (Calif.)
Works Progress Administration Collection photographs

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