Subject: Dams--Design and construction - UCLA Library Digital Collections Search Results

Description:: Partial view on the construction of the Santa Anita Dam. The top part of the dam is still not finished. The dam was completed in 1927.
Date:: 1920-1927
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Looking down on construction of the Santa Anita Dam. The dam was completed in 1927.
Date:: 1920-1927
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Topographic model of the San Gabriel Dam on top of a white sheet. Related article, "Dam Models Completed: County Flood Control Engineers Have Types of Two Structures Proposed for San Gabriel Canyon," Los Angeles Times, 28 May 1925: 3.
Date:: 1925
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Top side view of a half-finished Santa Anita Dam. The dam was completed in 1927.
Date:: 1920-1927
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: View of the San Gabriel Canyon wall before explosion for the excavation of the San Gabriel Dam. Related "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 1929
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: An unidentified man stands at the base of Dalton Dam, looking over at the construction crew on the opposite side.
Date:: [between 1928 and 1929]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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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:: Construction crew seen working on base of Big Dalton Dam, located approximately 4 miles north of Glendora.
Date:: [between 1928 and 1929]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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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

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