Explosion debris in San Gabriel Canyon during the construction of San Gabriel Dam, Los Angeles County, 1929

Item Overview

Title

Explosion debris in San Gabriel Canyon during the construction of San Gabriel Dam, Los Angeles County, 1929

Date Created

June 26, 1929

Date

1929-06-26

Publisher

Los Angeles Times

Language

No linguistic content

Collection

Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

Notes

Description

Cloud of dust and debris cascading down San Gabriel Canyon wall after explosion during construction of San Gabriel Dam. Reported in "GIGANTIC BLAST AIDS DAM WORK: Ninety Tons of Powder Used at San Gabriel Side of Canyon Seems Molten Before Explosive Engineering Feat Figured to Exact Result," Los Angeles Times, 27 June 1929: A10.

Caption

Text from negative sleeve: Dam, San Gabriel.

Physical Description

Extent

1 photograph

Dimensions

10 x 12.5 cm.

Medium

b&w glass negative

Keywords

Genre

news photographs
glass plate negatives

Location

Los Angeles County (Calif.)

Longitude

34.20654955

Latitude

-117.8608131

Resource type

still image

Subjects

San Gabriel Dam (Calif.)
Blasting--California--Los Angeles County
Dams--Design and construction
San Gabriel Canyon (Calif.)
Dams--California--Los Angeles County