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Construction workers at a Kaiser Homes housing tract in Los Angeles, Calif., 1947

Date:: 1947
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Works Projects Administration construction workers extending La Brea Avenue in Los Angeles, Calif., circa 1935

Date:: 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Metropolitan Water District construction workers at entrance of a tunnel along the Colorado River Aqueduct, 1937

Date:: 1937
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Looking down upon the half-finished Santa Anita Dam and tower, Los Angeles County, 1926

Description:: Photo appears with the article "HALF-WAY MARK REACHED IN DAM CONSTRUCTION: Santa Anita Structure Stands 115 Feet High Already, With Work Rushing," Los Angeles Times, 10 Aug. 1926: A1.
Date:: August 9, 1926
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Workers walking on the face of Santa Anita Dam during construction, Los Angeles County, 1926

Date:: 1926
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Workers at the Pacoima Dam site during constructions, Los Angeles County, circa 1926

Description:: Workers at the bottom of the canyon at the Pacoima Dam site working on wood framing and concrete pouring. Men in suits and women wearing dresses and sun hats observe.
Date:: [circa 1926]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Workers in railcar at Pacoima Dam during construction, Los Angeles, circa 1926

Description:: View looking down a 45° inclined railway on canyon wall at Pacoima Dam, Calif. site, with workers in a railcar.
Date:: [circa 1926]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Know Your City No.127; Construction of steel framework of Los Angeles County Courthouse at 1st and Hill Streets, 1956

Description:: In 2002 the Los Angeles County Central Courthouse was renamed Stanley Mosk Courthouse in memory of Supreme Court Justice Stanley Mosk.
Date:: March 23, 1956
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: OpenUCLA Collections
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Unidentified makers of the L.A. Times "Globe", Los Angeles, 1935

Description:: Photograph of unidentified workers who worked on the large metal globe that stands in the lobby of The Los Angeles Times building to this day. The Art deco building, built in 1935, is located in the southwest corner of First and Spring streets. The lobby, today popular as "The Globe Lobby," has a circular, arched marble rotunda. In the center is this gigantic metal globe, whose surface is a map of the world, on a bronze pedestal.
Date:: [1935]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Cranes swing large cement buckets of concrete to foundation floor of city hall in Burbank, Calif., 1960

Date:: March 18, 1960
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Striking workers at W.P.A. work site in Los Angeles, Calif., 1936

Description:: Quote from newspaper article: "Stone-hurling agitators completely paralyzed a Works Progress Administration job yesterday were more than 2,500 former dole-recipients were being given work. The picture shows idle workers at Higuera Street and Moynier Lane during an official parley."
Date:: March 3, 1936
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Nick Phillips operates a power shovel as part of the rescue operation to save Kathy Fiscus, 1949.

Description:: KathyFiscus fell into and was trapped in a 110 ft. San Marino well and subsequently died before rescue workers could reach her.
Date:: April 10, 1949
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Construction on Los Angeles River Channel between 23rd St. and Downey Road in Vernon, Calif., 1938

Date:: December 2, 1938
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Construction workers and tradesmen picketing for federal government intervention in construction industry, Los Angeles, Calif., 1974

Date:: October 13, 1974
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Ballard, Kathleen
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Construction worker walking around earthmoving machine during construction at Castaic Dam and Reservoir, Calif., 1970

Description:: 9-foot-high, 4-foot-wide tire. One-of-a-kind 125-ton vehicle that does nothing but push another machine along a rocky canyon floor about 45 miles northwest of Los Angeles. They are part of a fleet of giant earth-moving equipment, mobilized by the Western Contracting Corp. of Sioux Falls, S.D., to work on the monumental Castaic Dam and Reservoir, the southern terminus of the 44-mile California Aqueduct being built in a $2.8 billion State Water Project.
Date:: July 8, 1970
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Montney, Cal
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Remodeling of Bancroft Whitney Building on W. 1st Street in Los Angeles, Calif., 1942

Date:: April 7, 1942
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Construction site at the Pacoima Dam, Los Angeles County, circa 1926

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

Workers hanging mid air in a small wooden transportation box, Los Angeles County, circa 1926

Description:: Workers inside a small wooden transportation box suspended from a cable spanning the canyon at the construction site of the Pacoima Dam.
Date:: [circa 1926]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Workers building framing for concrete and digging during reconstruction of Los Angeles River, Calif., 1938

Date:: April 28, 1938
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Underground construction of Metro rail system in Los Angeles, Calif., 1989

Date:: April 12, 1989
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Meyer, Rick
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Workers hanging mid air in a small wooden transportation box, Los Angeles County, circa 1926

Description:: Workers inside a small wooden transportation box suspended from a cable spanning the canyon across the construction site of the Pacoima Dam.
Date:: [circa 1926]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Construction workers on 13th floor of building in high wind, Los Angeles, 1969

Description:: Image that accompanies caption in print is clus1429_b629_250531_13A
Date:: March 5, 1969
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Montney, Cal
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Overhead view of the Pacoima Dam construction site, Los Angeles County, circa 1926

Description:: Top view of the Pacoima Dam construction site. A railway track is seen on the side.
Date:: [circa 1926]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Workmen shingling roofs on new tract of three bedroom houses in Van Nuys, Calif., 1948

Date:: April 13, 1948
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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Construction workers at a Kaiser Homes housing tract in Los Angeles, Calif., 1947

Works Projects Administration construction workers extending La Brea Avenue in Los Angeles, Calif., circa 1935

Metropolitan Water District construction workers at entrance of a tunnel along the Colorado River Aqueduct, 1937

Looking down upon the half-finished Santa Anita Dam and tower, Los Angeles County, 1926

Workers walking on the face of Santa Anita Dam during construction, Los Angeles County, 1926

Workers at the Pacoima Dam site during constructions, Los Angeles County, circa 1926

Workers in railcar at Pacoima Dam during construction, Los Angeles, circa 1926

Know Your City No.127; Construction of steel framework of Los Angeles County Courthouse at 1st and Hill Streets, 1956

Unidentified makers of the L.A. Times "Globe", Los Angeles, 1935

Cranes swing large cement buckets of concrete to foundation floor of city hall in Burbank, Calif., 1960

Striking workers at W.P.A. work site in Los Angeles, Calif., 1936

Nick Phillips operates a power shovel as part of the rescue operation to save Kathy Fiscus, 1949.

Construction on Los Angeles River Channel between 23rd St. and Downey Road in Vernon, Calif., 1938

Construction workers and tradesmen picketing for federal government intervention in construction industry, Los Angeles, Calif., 1974

Construction worker walking around earthmoving machine during construction at Castaic Dam and Reservoir, Calif., 1970

Remodeling of Bancroft Whitney Building on W. 1st Street in Los Angeles, Calif., 1942

Construction site at the Pacoima Dam, Los Angeles County, circa 1926

Workers hanging mid air in a small wooden transportation box, Los Angeles County, circa 1926

Workers building framing for concrete and digging during reconstruction of Los Angeles River, Calif., 1938

Underground construction of Metro rail system in Los Angeles, Calif., 1989

Workers hanging mid air in a small wooden transportation box, Los Angeles County, circa 1926

Construction workers on 13th floor of building in high wind, Los Angeles, 1969

Overhead view of the Pacoima Dam construction site, Los Angeles County, circa 1926

Workmen shingling roofs on new tract of three bedroom houses in Van Nuys, Calif., 1948

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