Subject: Dams--California--Los Angeles County - 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:: A dragline excavator on top of a hill at the Hansen Dam construction site.
Date:: 1938
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
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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
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Description:: ANSWER: Yep, it's the spillway of Hansen Dam. (Didn't you notice those foothill peaks peeking through the opening?) And sure, it's racy. They have outboard motorboat races on the lake behind it and sports car races on a track directly below it.
Date:: March 4, 1956
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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