Print, Photographic

Name/Title

Print, Photographic

Entry/Object ID

1975.58.31

Description

Photo of a man identified as Homer Taylor standing on a dipper dredge floating on an open, unlined section of the L.A. Aqueduct. This and another dredge were used to excavate a majority of the 21 miles of ditch that comprised the Owens Valley Division of the project. The location is somewhere between the Intake and Independence. Note the lights attached on the sides of dredge boom in the center of image. Written in pencil on reverse: Homer Taylor on dredge.

Collection

Florence Dyer Collection

Made/Created

Date made

1908 - 1913