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Reservoir - at Dry Canyon - Los Angeles Aqueduct Lake. Showing portion of dam in foreground.
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Los Angeles Aqueduct - Dam at Dry Canyon Reservoir.
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Manuscripts
Contains correspondence and data, project studies on Rampart Canyon Dam and Reservoir.
mssMorris, Samuel papers
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Manuscripts
Format of original: Reel. Description: Fictionalized account of the Los Angeles Aqueduct and the rise of hydroelectric power to fuel the growth of the city of Los Angeles; includes scenes of downtown and power plants, circa 1922. Produced by Robert Brunton for the Board of Public Service Commissioners of the City of Los Angeles. Detailed footage of downtown Los Angeles; Mayor Fred Eaton in his office; the Board of Public Water Commissioners in a meeting; William Mulholland surveying in the field, the aqueduct landscape and its infrastructure (Owens River Gorge, Long Valley Reservoir, Tinemaha Reservoir, Division Creek Power House, artesian wells, a cement plan at Monolith, CA, Haiwee Reservoir, and Jawbone, Pine Canyon, and Antelope Siphons). Film ends abruptly.
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Saddlebags Reservoir, Lee Vining Creek Watershed, Tioga Reservoir, Rhinedollar Reservoir, Sylvester Meadows, Rush Meadows Dam and Reservoir, Gem Lake Dam and Reservoir, Agnew Dam and Reservoir, Grant Lake Dam and Reservoir, Cain Ranch, Lee Vining Creek Cascades, Poole Powerhouse substation and penstock, Poole Powerhouse interior, Lee Vining Creek Plant No. 3, Mill Creek Plant (Lundy Powerhouse), Adams Main Plant (Owens River Gorge), Adams Cottages, and Adams Auxiliary Plant. First page states that photographs were "Taken in July, 1927, by Edwin Avery Field for the illustrated booklet of the Nevada-California Electric Corp."
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Automobile trip taken by J. G. Oliver and W. H. Frick from Los Angeles to the Owens Valley. The 260-mile trip follows the route of the aqueduct and depicts the landscape of Owens Valley, Owens Lake, and the reservoirs, conduits, concrete canals, siphons, and power plants bringing water to Los Angeles. The trip ends at 1837 Canyon Drive with a photograph of a woman watering her lawn. The 1915 Los Angeles City Directory, lists 1837 Canyon Drive as the residence of Julius G. Oliver. His friend, William H. Frick, a salesman at the Cass-Smurr-Damerell Company, lived nearby at 4534 Kingswell. 1837 Canyon was demolished.
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