The Owens Valley Aqueduct 
 

Portraits of a civil engineering master - William Mulholland

 Mulholland

 Mullholand
 

Unless otherwise note, all L.A. aqueduct photographs on these pages are from the Joseph Barlow Lippincott Papers, LIPP, The Water Resources Center Archives, University of California, Berkeley or public domain archival files.

 Siphon
Laying the Cottonwood Siphon
LIPP 141:209

 Machinery
Machinery on site of cement mill
LIPP 141:216

 Boilers
Boilers for cement mill
LIPP 141:217

 Pack Train
Water pack train
LIPP 141:237

 Kilns
Kilns for the cement mill
LIPP 141:252

 Whitney
Whitney siphon
LIPP 141:398

 Soledad
Steel plates for Soledad siphon
LIPP 142:500

 Siphon
Soledad Canyon siphon
LIPP:618L

 Shovel
Steam shovel #1
LIPP 141:290

 Camp
Downer's Camp
LIPP 141:137

 Freighting
Freighting outfit
LIPP 141:156

 Tunnel
South portal, Elizabeth Lake tunnel
LIPP 141:162

 Camp
Worker's camp in Sun Canyon
LIPP 141:322

 Conduit
Concrete-line conduit
LIPP 141:332

 Cover
Putting the cover on the conduit
LIPP 141:333


(All photographs courtesy of the Joseph Barlow Lippincott Papers, LIPP, The Water Resources Center Archives, University of California, Berkeley.)

 

   "Where Have All the Ranches Gone..."[pdf]
by Frank M. Madina
(Frank was a Native American of Apache descent who lived in Owens Valley in the early part of the 20th century.)
 

Anatomy of a siphon 

Collapsed siphon


Partially pressurized siphon.

 
Near full pressurized siphon

 
Fully pressurized siphon

 

 

20-Mule-Team History  

Manzanar Internment Camp Portraits, History etc.  

More Owens Valley Aqueduct Portraits & History  
 

More Owens Valley Aqueduct Portraits & History

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Mt. Whitney Pack Trains 1950s Brochure

 

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