Devil's Lake, La Cañada Flintridge
Item Overview
- Title
- Devil's Lake, La Cañada Flintridge
- Date Created
- [between 1920-1939]
- Date
- 1920/1939
- Publisher
- Los Angeles Times
- Language
- No linguistic content
- Collection
- Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Notes
- Description
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View across Devil's Lake (Hahamongna Lake, Hahamongna Basin Watershed) with the San Gabriel Mountains visible in the distance. The lake was formed by the Devil's Gate Dam in 1920.
The Devil's Gate Dam was the first flood control dam constructed in Los Angeles County. Designed by the flood engineers from the Los Angeles County Flood Control District and completed in 1920 Bent Brothers company, it formed the Hahamongna flood basin. The dam is located in La Cañada Flintridge at Devil's Gorge, the narrowest point on the Arroyo Seco. The Arroyo Seco is a seasonal river and watershed that begins at Red Box Saddle near Mount Wilson in the San Gabriel Mountains and ends at the confluence with the Los Angeles River near Elysian Park, north of Downtown Los Angeles.
Physical Description
- Extent
- 1 photograph
- Medium
- b&w nitrate negative
Keywords
- Genre
-
news photographs
cellulose nitrate film - Location
- La Cañada Flintridge (Calif.)
- Resource type
- still image
- Subjects
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Devil's Gate Dam (Calif.)
Lake Hahamongna (La Cañada Flintridge, Calif.)
Find This Item
- Repository
- University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
- Local Identifier
- uclamss_1429_2026
- ARK
- ark:/21198/zz002dcxtf
- Manifest url
Access Condition
- Rights statement
- copyrighted
- Rights Holder
- UCLA Charles E. Young Research Library Department of Special Collections, A1713 Young Research Library, Box 951575, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575. E-mail: spec-coll@library.ucla.edu. Phone: (310)825-4988
- Rights Country
- US
- Funding Note
- Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds.
- License
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This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License .