Unidentified worker sitting in a bulldozer, Calexico, 1936

Description: The details of the rigorous construction of the All American Canal.
An unidentified man sits in a bulldozer atop a hill.
Photograph appears with the article, "Blazing Skies Defied by Hurrying Crews Digging Big Ditch in Desert," Los Angeles Times, 16 Mar 1936: 10.
Caption: Text from newspaper caption: Above is a view of the tremendous bulldozer that pushes back sand dug out of the all-American canal cut eighteen miles east of Calexico by a huge dragline. Below is a section of the twenty-two miles of canal built with man and mule labor in the Calexico sector. This phase of the job will be done June 1.
Text from negative sleeve: 4973 - Shots at the All-American Canal near xxxxxx Calexico, California. (one removed for cleaning) 4/16/36 [stamped:] Apr 23 1936

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