
May 1927: A section of the aqueduct at No Name Canyon is shown after dynamite was used to destroy 400 feet of pipe on May 27, 1927. This photo was published in the Feb. 24, 1928, Los Angeles Times.
PHOTOGRAPH BY: Los Angeles Times
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May 23, 1924: Los Angeles Aqueduct damage is shown after an explosion about three miles north of Lone Pine. This photo was published in the May 24, 1924, Los Angeles Times.
PHOTOGRAPH BY: David Mann / Los Angeles Times
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May 23, 1924: An aerial photo of the Los Angeles Aqueduct shows damage from an explosion about three miles north of Lone Pine. This photo was published in the May 24, 1924, Los Angeles Times.
PHOTOGRAPH BY: C. E. Haldeman / Pacific and Atlantic Photos
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Nov. 18, 1924: Owens Valley residents during four-day takeover of the Los Angeles Aqueduct's Alabama Gates, a diversion channel valve head about 10 miles south of Independence. Water was diverted into the dry bed of Owens Lake.
PHOTOGRAPH BY: Los Angeles Times
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November 1924: Owens Valley residents during four-day takeover of the Los Angeles Aqueduct's Alabama Gates. In this photo, no faces are visible and additional details in shadows were enhanced by a Los Angeles Times artist. On the back of this print is a published caption to an artist's sketch in the Nov. 21, 1924, Los Angeles Times indicating this photo was used as by the artist.
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May 14, 1926: The site of a dynamite blast at the Los Angeles Aqueduct about four miles north of Lone Pine.
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May 28, 1927: Damage to Los Angeles Aqueduct pipes at No Name Canyon can be seen from a dynamite attack the day before.
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May 1927: A section of the aqueduct at No Name Canyon is shown after dynamite was used to destroy 400 feet of pipe on May 27, 1927. This photo was published in the Nov. 3, 1931, Los Angeles Times.
PHOTOGRAPH BY: Los Angeles Times
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May 1927: Damaged Los Angeles Aqueduct pipes after dynamite blast at No Name Canyon on May 27, 1927.
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May 1927: Water flowing from damaged Los Angeles Aqueduct pipes after dynamite blast at No Name Canyon on May 27, 1927.
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May 1927: Damaged Los Angeles Aqueduct pipes after dynamite blast at No Name Canyon on May 27, 1927.
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May 1927: Damaged Los Angeles Aqueduct pipes after dynamite blast at No Name Canyon on May 27, 1927.
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May 30, 1927: Reconstruction work continues on the Los Angeles Aqueduct at No Name Canyon after a May 27, 1927, dynamite explosion. This photo was published in the May 31, 1927, Los Angeles Times.
PHOTOGRAPH BY: George Watson / Los Angeles Times
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May 30, 1927: Reconstruction work continues on the Los Angeles Aqueduct at No Name Canyon after a dynamite explosion. This photo was published in the May 31, 1927, Los Angeles Times.
PHOTOGRAPH BY: George Watson / Los Angeles Times
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Map published in the June 6, 1927, Los Anglees Times showing locations of three bombing sites on the Los Angeles Aqueduct in 10 days. The first dynamiting - and most damaging - took place in the early morning of May 27, when several hundred feet of a siphon was destroyed at No Name Canyon.
PHOTOGRAPH BY: Los Angeles Times / ProQuest
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A feeder pipe leading to Big Pine Power House No. 3 of the Los Angeles Aqueduct was damaged by a dynamite blast on May 28, 1927, a day after the major blast at No Name Canyon. The power house was knocked out of commission. This photo was published in the May 30, 1927 Los Angeles Times.
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Jess Hession, then district attorney of Inyo County, left, and J. Clark Sellers, a criminologist and handwriting expert, examine dynamite found near the Los Angeles Aqueduct. This unpublished image was probably taken in 1927 or 1928. The two investigators were mentioned in several February 1928 Los Angeles Times stories.
PHOTOGRAPH BY: Los Angeles Times Archive/UCLA
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February 1928: In charge of the investigation of the dynamiting of the Los Angeles Aqueduct were, from left, J. Clark Sellers, a criminologist and handwriting expert; John N. Pyles, chief investigator; and Jess Hession, then district attorney of Inyo County. This photo was published in the Feb. 25, 1928, Los Angeles Times.
PHOTOGRAPH BY: George Watson / Los Angeles Times
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A political cartoon on Page 1 of the Nov. 23, 1924, Los Angeles Times, featuring "Miss Los Angeles," a recurring character drawn by Edmund Waller "Ted" Gale.. A group of Owens Valley residents had just ended a four-day protest takeover of the Alabama control gate of the Los Angeles Aqueduct. Gates had been opened diverting water into Owens River.
PHOTOGRAPH BY: Edmund Waller "Ted" Gale / Los Angeles Times/ProQuest
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Sept. 15, 1976: The exterior of the Los Angeles Aqueduct Alabama Hills gatehouse after an explosion buckled the floor and blew out the windows and a door. Aqueduct water escapes, lower right, through damaged gate. This photo was published in the Sept. 16, 1976, Los Angeles Times.
PHOTOGRAPH BY: Ben Olender / Los Angeles Times
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Sept. 15, 1976: The interior of the Los Angeles Aqueduct Alabama Hills gatehouse after an explosion buckled the floor and blew out windows and a door. This photo was published in the Sept. 16, 1976, Los Angeles Times.
PHOTOGRAPH BY: Ben Olender / Los Angeles Times
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