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"Cinco" headquarters division seven, Los Angeles Aqueduct
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"Cinco" headquarters division seven, Los Angeles Aqueduct
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Elevated landscape view of the Mojave Desert around Cinco, California, in Kern County, with the buildings of the headquarters for the Jawbone Division (No. 7), used during construction on the Los Angeles Aqueduct in the area, visible at center.
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Los Angeles Aqueduct right of way
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Image of territory for the Los Angeles Aqueduct right of way near Sugar Loaf Mountain in Kern County, California, with features named and tunneling spots marked by hand. Features named are Sugar Loaf Mt., Jawbone Syphon, Twin Buttes, RX. Camp, S. Portal, and Water Canyon.
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Los Angeles Aqueduct
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Image of a pipeline for the Los Angeles Aqueduct, presumably the Deadman Canyon Siphon in the Bouquet Canyon area of Saugus in Los Angeles County, California.
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Los Angeles aqueduct survey photographs
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The collection consists of photographs (the majority of which are housed in two photograph albums), negatives, published material, and ephemera that depict locations throughout California and the Western United States. Many of these were locations where Frank Rolfe, a geologist, worked on various surveys, including the Los Angeles aqueduct survey. The collection contains two photograph albums: one depicts the initial Los Angeles aqueduct survey, the second contains photographs of Los Angeles (central Los Angeles and neighborhoods where Rolfe and his wife lived), the San Gabriel Valley and other locations in Los Angeles County (Devil's Gate Dam, the San Gabriel Mountains, the St. Francis Dam and San Francisquito Canyon), San Bernardino County (the San Bernardino Mountains, Big Bear Lake), Riverside County (the Coachella Valley, Tahquitz Canyon, the Temescal Valley, Riverside, the San Jacinto Mountains), Kern County, and commercially produced images of Yosemite. Boxes 3 and 4 contain negatives; viewing of the negatives must be arranged with the Curator of Photographs. The negatives depict street scenes in central Los Angeles, including the wrecking of the Temple Block, the Amestoy Block, the Hall of Records, and Bunker Hill. Also included are views of the West Adams neighborhood; houses where Rolfe and his wife lived in the 1920s and 30s; the snowstorm of 1932; and the 1920 Inglewood earthquake. The collection also includes images of Hollywood and vicinity (including a number of photographs of the Mulholland Dam and images of Brentwood and Bel Air); Santa Monica (including the Santa Monica Mountains and Decker Canyon); Santa Catalina Island; north Los Angeles County (including the San Fernando and Santa Clarita valleys, the ruins of the Saint Francis Dam and San Francisquito Canyon, and the golden spike celebration at Lang); the San Gabriel Valley (including many views of the San Gabriel Mountains); Orange County (including Modjeska's home, Santiago Canyon, San Juan Capistrano, the Puente hills, and Santa Ana Canyon); San Diego County; San Bernardino County (including a number of photographs of mining camps, including Ivanpah and Camp Roach; construction of the Ludlow and Southern Railway; and mining operations, such as the Bagdad Chase Mine and the Bagdad Mining and Milling Company); Riverside County (including the Temescal Tin Mine, Temescal and the Temescal Valley, Hog Lake, the San Jacinto River, Mount San Jacinto, and Idyllwild); Ventura County; Kern County (images of the Kern River); Inyo County; Yosemite; northern California (including Stanford and Susie Lake); Nevada (Truckee River dam projects); Oregon; Washington; Utah; Glacier Park, Montana; people (Rolfe, his family and friends); and miscellaneous photographs (a number of desert views, mostly Southern California). The collection also contains commercial photographs of the Rolfe family, many in carte-de-visite format. The ephemerial materials consist of a letter written in 1862 from Sutter Creek by Rolfe's father Ovid to his brother Alfred in Dorchester, Massachusetts; biographical sketches of members of the Rolfe family; clippings compiled by Rolfe; Rolfe's high school and college diplomas; card files on Rolfe family history, covered wagons in Los Angeles, and Temescal history; and negative books.
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Los Angeles Aqueduct pipeline
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Image of a pipeline for the Los Angeles Aqueduct, presumably the Deadman Canyon Siphon in the Bouquet Canyon area of Saugus in Los Angeles County, California.
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Cascades, Los Angeles Aqueduct
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Panoramic view of the Cascades of the Los Angeles Aqueduct and the surrounding foothills and land in present-day Sylmar, California, in the San Fernando Valley. Crowds of people and parked automobiles are in the area, and people are lining the concrete wall where the water is seen flowing down the mountain.
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