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Description:: Caption for a similar photograph taken on the same occasion: Bouquet Canyon Earth-Fill Dam Rapidly Taking on Permanent Form. Work Progressing. The city's dam in Bouquet Canyon to furnish storage for both water and power and to replace the ill-fated St. Francis Dam is rising steadily each day to the tune of rumbling trucks hauling earth from the pits to the dam site. The view here is from upstream looking at the concrete covered upstream face. The white streaks are streams of water poured on to aid the concrete to cure properly [Los Angeles Times, 6 Sept. 1933].
Date:: September 1933
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Description:: View of the top of the concrete inlet-outlet tower, 130 feet high, at the Bouquet Canyon Reservoir. Scaffolding is visible at the top of the tower.
Date:: March 28, 1934
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: View from the side of the concrete covered upstream face of the Bouquet Canyon Dam. A truck and 3 workers are in the foreground and workers score the surface of the earth or concrete on the face of the dam in the distance.
Date:: September 1933
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Related to published Los Angeles Times photographs with the caption: Here's Where Flow Started; View of Control Tower [Los Angeles Times, "Water in New Reservoir," 3/29/1934]
Date:: March 28, 1934
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Description:: Related to published Los Angeles Times photographs with the caption: Here's Where Flow Started; View of Control Tower [Los Angeles Times, "Water in New Reservoir," 3/29/1934]
Date:: March 28, 1934
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Caption for a similar photograph taken on the same occasion: Bouquet Canyon Earth-Fill Dam Rapidly Taking on Permanent Form. Work Progressing. The city's dam in Bouquet Canyon to furnish storage for both water and power and to replace the ill-fated St. Francis Dam is rising steadily each day to the tune of rumbling trucks hauling earth from the pits to the dam site. The view here is from upstream looking at the concrete covered upstream face. The white streaks are streams of water poured on to aid the concrete to cure properly [Los Angeles Times, 6 Sept. 1933].
Date:: September 1933
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: View from the side of the concrete covered upstream face of the Bouquet Canyon Dam. A truck, 2 automobiles and a tractor pulling rollers for scoring the earth or concrete are on top of the dam and workers are on slope of the dam.
Date:: September 1933
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: View of the top of the dam, with the concrete face on the right
Date:: September 1933
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: View of the officials and a truck next to the concrete inlet-outlet tower, 130 feet high, at the Bouquet Canyon Reservoir during the dedication ceremony when the water was first released to fill the reservoir. More than 50 persons attended the opening including Mayor Shaw; H. A. Van Norman, Chief Engineer and General Manager of the Bureau of Water Works; William Mulholland; Henry L. Jacques, E. F. Scattergood; President Hugh J. McGuire of the Board of Public Works; Lloyd Aldrich, City Engineer; Water Power Commissioner Arthur J. Mullen; T. A. Panter; William W. Hurlbut and Mrs Harriett Sunday of the Civil Service Commission; J. B. Lippincott, consulting engineer; and President William P. Whitsett of the Metropolitan Water District.
Date:: March 28, 1934
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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