Plaque for the Big Tujunga Dam No. 1, Los Angeles County, 1931
Item Overview
- Title
- Plaque for the Big Tujunga Dam No. 1, Los Angeles County, 1931
- Date Created
- 1931
- Date
- 1931
- Publisher
- Los Angeles Times
- Language
- No linguistic content
- Collection
- Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Notes
- Description
- Plaque to commemorate the opening of the Big Tujunga Dam No. 1 that includes who it was constructed by, years of construction, and names of board of supervisors. The dam was completed in 1931.
- Caption
-
Text from negative sleeve: Dams—Big Tujunga. Opening of.
Plaque text: Big Tujunga Dam No 1 / Constructed by / Los Angeles County Flood Control District / 1919-1931 A. D. / Board of Supervisors / Henry W. Wright / Hugh A. Thatcher – John R. Quinn / Frank L. Shah – J. Don Mahaffey / Chief Engineer / E. C. Eaton / Contractor / L. E. Dixon Company / Type of dam variable radius arch – Purpose – Flood control & conservation / Height of dam – 200 ft. Volume of concrete – 79,500 cu. yd. Reservoir capacity – 7400 acre ft.
Physical Description
- Extent
- 1 photograph
- Medium
- b&w glass negative
Keywords
- Genre
-
news photographs
glass plate negatives - Location
- Angeles National Forest (Calif.)
- Longitude
- 34.293679
- Latitude
- -118.18748
- Resource type
- still image
- Subjects
-
Big Tujunga Dam (Los Angeles County, Calif.)
Dams--California--Los Angeles County
Find This Item
- Repository
- University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
- Local Identifier
- uclamss_1429_b3700_G1203
- ARK
- ark:/21198/z1hn12bs
- Manifest url
-
Access Condition
- Rights statement
- copyrighted
- Rights contact
- UCLA Library Special Collections, A1713 Charles E. Young Research Library, Box 951575, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575. Email: spec-coll@library.ucla.edu. Phone: (310) 825-4988
- Rights Holder
- The Regents of the University of California
- Rights Country
- US