Subject: Dams--California--Los Angeles County / Genre: news photographs / Location: Los Angeles County (Calif.) - UCLA Library Digital Collections Search Results

Description:: Birds eye view of the top of the walkway and outer wall of the Pacoima Dam. The left side of the photo is obstructed.
Date:: [between 1926-1928]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: 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.
Date:: June 26, 1929
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Wooden construction tower attached to a wooden building in the mountainside at the Pacoima Dam construction site. Workers stand on a wooden bridge near the entrance of the building.
Date:: [circa 1926]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: View from behind an opening of a dry stream in the San Gabriel Canyon with some mountains in the background.
Date:: 1920-1930
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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.
Date:: June 26, 1929
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

Description:: A group of men standing by the Pacoima Dam which is seen in the background on the right.
Date:: [circa 1928]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: A group of men standing by the Pacoima Dam which is seen in the background on the right.
Date:: [circa 1928]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Photo appears with article "Flood Control Project Inspected: FIRST CONCRETE POURED IN PACOIMA DAM County Supervisors Pull Lever Sending Initial Batch of Mixture to Base of Structure That Will Rise in Year to 395-Foot Height," Los Angeles Times, 06 Aug 1926: A1.
Date:: [circa August 6, 1926]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

Description:: Men in canyon tunnels preparing to set explosives for blasting excavation 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 Jun. 1929: A10.
Date:: June 26, 1929
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

Description:: An unidentified man standing inside a hole at the bottom of the mountain at the San Gabriel Dam construction site.
Date:: 1920-1930
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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