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Description:: The San Gabriel Dam is a rock-fill dam on the San Gabriel River in Los Angeles County, California, within the Angeles National Forest. It was under construction from 1932 to completion in 1939.
Date:: [1925-1939]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Description:: The San Gabriel Dam is a rock-fill dam on the San Gabriel River in Los Angeles County, California, within the Angeles National Forest. It was under construction from 1932 to completion in 1939.
Date:: [1929-1933]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

Description:: Neil cabin is probably associated with the Neil gold mining claim. Those claims were ultimately purchased in the process of the planning and building of the San Gabriel Dam.
Date:: [1925-1939]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

Description:: View of the entrance to a mining shaft on the grounds of the Neil claim in San Gabriel Canyon.
Date:: [1925-1939]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

Description:: The San Gabriel Dam is a rock-fill dam on the San Gabriel River in Los Angeles County, California, within the Angeles National Forest. It was under construction from 1932 to completion in 1939.
Date:: [1932-1939]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

Description:: The San Gabriel Dam is a rock-fill dam on the San Gabriel River in Los Angeles County, California, within the Angeles National Forest. It was under construction from 1932 to completion in 1939.
Date:: [1925-1939]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

Description:: Bird's-eye view of San Gabriel Canyon during the construction of the dam. The canyon floor has been cleared of gravel, and trucks and buildings are visible on the site.
Date:: February 12, 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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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
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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
OpenUCLA Collections

Description:: The San Gabriel Dam is a rock-fill dam on the San Gabriel River in Los Angeles County, California, within the Angeles National Forest. It was under construction from 1932 to completion in 1939.
Date:: [1925-1939]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: OpenUCLA Collections
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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