1915 Road Trip Along the New Los Angeles Aqueduct

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This photo album, made by Angelenos Julius Goodwin Oliver and William Henry Frick, illustrates a road trip that the two curious citizens undertook to observe the Los Angeles Aqueduct in 1915. The Aqueduct was opened on November 5, 1913, and the magazine Boom: A Journal of California has dedicated its fall issue to the centennial; the photo album, which is held in the Huntington Library, is the topic of a piece by Boom’s Annie Powers. Continue