Construction Photos of Joseph Barlow Lippincott

The Owens Valley Aqueduct
Construction Photos of Joseph Barlow Lippincott - 2

Olancha section of the Los Angeles Aqueduct under construction - 1909	Olancha section of the Los Angeles Aqueduct under construction - 1909
Diversion point of Owens River into the Los Angeles Aqueduct - 1906	Owens River before into the Los Angeles Aqueduct - 1906
Owens River diversion canal - 1906	Reinforced concrete pipe section of the L.A. Aqueduct - 1912
Owens Valley freighting operation - 1907
Owens Valley road construction (the original El Camino Sierra or U.S. 395) - 1907
Tuttle Creek runoff - 1906
Wildison's store near Mammoth Mountain - 1907

Construction of the Whitney Siphon - 1909

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 . There are approximately 800 photographs in the files. These are some of my favorites.

Cottonwood Creek flowing towards Owens Lake - 1906	Mojave Conduit being excavated - 1908
Mojave Conduit being excavated - 1908	Mojave Conduit being lined with cement - 1908
Installing cover on the Mojave Conduit - 1908	Cover completely installed on the Mojave Conduit - 1908
Caterpillar Traction Trailer hauling concrete for the Los Angeles Aqueduct in the Mojave Desert - 1909

"Joseph Barlow Lippincott Biography"
by Kenneth Q. Volk & Edgar Alan Rowe

Stoddard-Dayton stuck in the ditch in Owens Valley - 1906

52 Mule Team hauling pipe for the Jawbone section of the Los Angeles Aqueduct in the Mojave Desert - 1912
52 Mule Team hauling pipe for the Jawbone section of the Los Angeles Aqueduct in the Mojave Desert - 1912
52 Mule Team hauling pipe for the Jawbone section of the Los Angeles Aqueduct in the Mojave Desert - 1912	Hauling supplies for the Los Angeles Aqueduct - 1913
Front (L-R): Mayor William Thum, T. Allin Rear (L -R): F.E. Wilcox, J.M. Harvey, and M.E. Wood in a section aqueduct pipe during construction of the Jawbone section of the Los Angeles Aqueduct- 1912	Stoddard-Dayton in Owens Valley at Haiwee - 1906

"The Stoddard-Dayton Story"
by Daniel Strohl

Los Angeles Aqueduct Reclaimation Engineers- 1906

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