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  The City of Los Angeles' Owens River Aqueduct

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  The City of Los Angeles' Owens River Aqueduct in the Southern end of the Owens Valley, showing the tailrace from the Cottonwood Powerhouse.

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  Water - Los Angeles Aqueduct - Articles and Pamphlets

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  approx. 20 items: collection of material on above topic including some major articles. Among the significant articles with sources and dates: Sunset, 12/1909, "Water for Millions--building the great aqueduct...to supply Los Angeles" ; personal account of Jack Heyser, 1939, "Los Angeles City Fathers go water hunting...the birth of the Owens River Aqueduct" ; American Heritage, 12/1961, "The Water War" ; Historical Society of Southern California Quarterly, 3/1963, "Myth-making in the Los Angeles Area" ; California Historical Quarterly, "The politics of California water-- Owens Valley and the Los Angeles Aqueduct, 1900-1927" ; California History, 9/1986, "Picnic at Alabama Gates...the Owens Valley Rebellion, 1904-1927" ; Historical Society of Southern California, Fall 1988, "The Los Angeles Aqueduct -- 1913 -1988, A 75th Anniversary Tribute."

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  Photograph album of automobile road trips in Owens Valley, California

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  A photograph album of group automobile trips chiefly through the Owens Valley, California area in 1932, including visits to the towns of Lone Pine, Panamint City, and Independence; hiking in the eastern Sierra Nevada Mountains; rifle shooting; and drives to mines and mining camps. Several images depict the filming of the Western movie "Flaming Guns" (1932) around Lone Pine, showing the film crew and actor Tom Mix. The unknown photographer may have been working at the Natural Soda Products Company plant, which was situated on the dry lakebed of Owens Lake near Keeler, as there are several images of the mineral plant, the Keeler swimming pool, and a small bedroom captioned "my room at N.S.P. Co." Other images show an Easter service in Keeler, the Cerro Gordo Mine, Estelle Mine, Onion Valley, and in Nevada, the towns of Lida and Goldfield. There are also travel scenes with friends and family in Southern California, including Hermosa Beach, Redondo Beach, Palos Verdes peninsula, and crowds at a Christian Endeavor convention in Whittier.

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  Letter to Wiliton S. Hamilton (Mono Power Co.) From W.B. Mathews (Los Angeles Dept. of Pubic Works/Los Angeles Aqueduct) regarding the construction of hydroelectric power projects in the Owens Valley. No number originally assigned by Cal. Electric and

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  Letter to Wiliton S. Hamilton (Mono Power Co.) From W.B. Mathews (Los Angeles Dept. of Pubic Works/Los Angeles Aqueduct) regarding the construction of hydroelectric power projects in the Owens Valley. No number originally assigned by Cal. Electric and - no documentation included. (G-B-07-00039, 00040 and 00041 are Identical plates)

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  Letter to Wiliton S. Hamilton (Mono Power Co.) From W.B. Mathews (Los Angeles Dept. of Pubic Works/Los Angeles Aqueduct) regarding the construction of hydroelectric power projects in the Owens Valley. No number originally assigned by Cal. Electric and

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  Letter to Wiliton S. Hamilton (Mono Power Co.) From W.B. Mathews (Los Angeles Dept. of Pubic Works/Los Angeles Aqueduct) regarding the construction of hydroelectric power projects in the Owens Valley. No number originally assigned by Cal. Electric and - no documentation included. (G-B-07-00039, 00040 and 00041 are Identical plates)

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  The Los Angeles Aqueduct

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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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