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Description:: Photo appears with the article "CITY HONORS MULHOLLAND: Dedicates New Dam in Name of Engineer; Water is Turned Into Los Angeles Mains," Los Angeles Times, 18 Mar. 1925: A1.
Date:: March 1925
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Description:: People gathered at Mulholland Dam. This photograph may be related to the article, "CITY HONORS MULHOLLAND: Dedicates New Dam in Name of Engineer; Water is Turned Into Los Angeles Mains," Los Angeles Times, 18 Mar. 1925: A1. The photograph appears to be stained.
Date:: March 1925
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: View of Mulholland Dam and Hollywood Reservoir. Sign reading Bryn Mawr above dam, which was likely an advertisement for a housing development.
Date:: [between 1925-1939]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: OpenUCLA Collections
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: View of Mulholland Dam and Hollywood Reservoir. Reported in "CITY HONORS MULHOLLAND: Dedicates New Dam in Name of Engineer; Water is Turned Into Los Angeles Mains," Los Angeles Times, 18 Mar. 1925: A1.
Date:: March 1925
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: View from an elevation of Mulholland Dam and Hollywood Reservoir with some small dwellings at the edge. The Hollywood Land sign can be seen in the background. Photograph may be related to the article, "CITY HONORS MULHOLLAND: Dedicates New Dam in Name of Engineer; Water is Turned Into Los Angeles Mains," Los Angeles Times, 18 Mar. 1925: A1.
Date:: March 1925
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: View of Hollywood Reservoir taken from above the Mulholland Dam. Hollywoodland sign is visible on hill in the distance and reflected in the reservoir.
Date:: [between 1925-1939]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Description:: A crowd is gathered to hear former president Herbert Hoover deliver a speech at the Morris Dam dedication. Hoover can be seen on the platform in the left side of the photograph.
Date:: May 26, 1934
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Former president Herbert Hoover unveils the plaque dedicating Morris Dam. Noted Los Angeles attorney Joe Scott stands on the left, in a grey suit, with his hand in his pocket.
Date:: May 26, 1934
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: The Hollywood Reservoir is photographed here, with surrounding hills in the background and utility trucks.
Date:: December, 1933
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Description:: In 1933, about ten years after the Dam was completed, the city started building what was known as a “psychological dam” -- made of dirt and gravel -- on the opposite side of the reservoir in order to appease residents’ safety concerns.
Date:: December, 1933
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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