A crane digging in the sand, Calexico, 1936
Item Overview
- Title
- A crane digging in the sand, Calexico, 1936
- Date Created
- March 15, 1936
- Date
- 1936-03-15
- Publisher
- Los Angeles Times
- Language
- No linguistic content
- Collection
- Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Notes
- Description
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From the view of the control house the gigantic crane can be seen digging trenches in the sand.
The details of the rigorous construction of the All American Canal.
Photograph appears with the article, "Blazing Skies Defied by Hurrying Crews Digging Big Ditch in Desert," Los Angeles Times, 16 Mar 1936: 10.
Physical Description
- Extent
- 1 photograph
- Medium
- b&w nitrate negative
Keywords
- Genre
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cellulose nitrate film
news photographs - Names
- All American Canal (Calif.)
- Location
- Calexico (Calif.)
- Resource type
- still image
- Subjects
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Sand--California--Calexico
Hoisting machinery
Find This Item
- Repository
- University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
- Local Identifier
- uclamss_1429_14161
- ARK
- ark:/21198/zz002j7pvf
- Manifest url
Access Condition
- Rights statement
- copyrighted
- Rights contact
- UCLA Library Special Collections, A1713 Charles E. Young Research Library, Box 951575, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575. Email: spec-coll@library.ucla.edu. Phone: (310) 825-4988
- Rights Holder
- The Regents of the University of California
- 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 .