Name/Title
Print, PhotographicEntry/Object ID
2012.16.67Description
Photo of laborers using two wheeled carts to pour concrete along an excavated trench (dirt is piled up on left side). They may be prepping and putting a concrete roof on a covered conduit section of the aqueduct in the Antelope Valley.
Written in lower left corner: 2219.
Complete Report on Construction of the Los Angeles Aqueduct, 1916, pages 75-76: "Through the Mojave desert there is 70 miles of 'cut-and-cover' construction in the desert plain. There steam shovels excavated the necessary trench about 12 feet wide and 10 feet deep, in which the Aqueduct was built, the cover being kept below the surface of the ground so as to offer no obstruction to the occasional 'cloudbursts' which at rare intervals run down the desert slopes."Collection
Albert Ross Collection