Name/Title
Print, PhotographicEntry/Object ID
2012.16.179Description
B & W digital scan of LA Aqueduct Workmen posing in front of Tent Cabins, LA Aqueduct Construction Camp, location unknown. Note Vent Pipes from Wood Burning Stoves providing heat during winter months. "The City furnished sleeping tents and bunks for the laborers, but the men supplied thier own bedding. Married men, with their families in the field, were supplied either with houses or individual frame tents with floors." -from LA Aqueduct Construction, Final Report, pg. 256.Collection
Alex Ross Collection