Name/Title
Print, PhotographicEntry/Object ID
2024.0.487Description
Photo of a long mule team hauling four wagons of supplies and/or equipment for the Los Angeles Aqueduct.
Stamped in purple ink on reverse: "Los Angeles Department of Water and Power Public Relations Division Photographic Section" and "H68-1024."
"Maximum livestock use during aqueduct construction was September 1911 when over 1,355 mules and horses toiled away. 755 of these beasts of burden were city owned and 600 were rented from various contractors." -LA Aqueduct Statistics, Final Report, 1916, pg. 271.