Metropolitan Water District workmen celebrate the completion of a water tunnel to supply Los Angeles with Colorado River water, Pasadena, 1937

Title: Metropolitan Water District workmen celebrate the completion of a water tunnel to supply Los Angeles with Colorado River water, Pasadena, 1937
Date Created: March 17, 1937
Date: 1937-03-17
Publisher: Los Angeles Daily News
Language: No linguistic content
Collection: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description: Metropolitan Water District workmen celebrate the completion of a water tunnel. The tunnel was part of a distributing system that brought Colorado River water to Los Angeles and surrounding communities.
Caption: Text from original nitrate sleeve: L.A. Aqueduct -- Pasadena Tunnel. This tunnel was completed yesterday afternoon. It was started February 21 and is 3-1/3 miles long. Truck dumping last batch of concrete aggregate into mixing machinery used in connection with lining of Pasadena Tunnel on the Metropolitan Aqueduct.

Genre: news photographs
cellulose nitrate film
Names: Metropolitan Water District of Southern California (Calif.)--Employees
Location: Pasadena (Calif.)
Resource type: still image
Subjects: Water supply--California--Pasadena
Government
Tunnels--California--Los Angeles
Business

Repository: University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
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