Meetings; Big Pine Property Owners Association; Water rights--California--Owens Valley; Water rights--California--Los Angeles
Big Pine Property Owners Association (BPPOA) was established to represent the property interests of Big Pine residents, and the organization held its first meeting on December 8, 1924. A. G. Barmore, editor and owner of the Big Pine Citizen, served...
Black, J. D. (John David), 1893-1960; Big Pine Property Owners Association; Warren, George B.; McIntosh, J. O. (James); Uhlmeyer, W.; Hines, William; Butler, Frank; Los Angeles (Calif.) Board of Public Service Commissioners; Water...
Big Pine Property Owners Association (BPPOA) was established to represent the property interests of Big Pine residents, and the organization held its first meeting on December 8, 1924. A. G. Barmore, editor and owner of the Big Pine Citizen, served...
Water rights--California--Owens Valley; Water rights--California--Los Angeles; Resolutions; Watterson, Mark Q.; Big Pine Property Owners Association; Black, J. D. (John David), 1893-1960; Los Angeles Times (Firm)
Big Pine Property Owners Association (BPPOA) was established in December 1924 to represent the property interests of Big Pine residents. After a reparations bill of California was passed in April 1925, the BPPOA formed the Big Pine Reparations...
Big Pine Property Owners Association; Los Angeles (Calif.) Board of Public Service Commissioners; Real property--Purchasing--United States; Water rights--California--Owens Valley; Water rights--California--Los Angeles
Big Pine Property Owners Association (BPPOA) was established to represent the property interests of Big Pine residents, and the organization held its first meeting on December 8, 1924. A. G. Barmore, editor and owner of the Big Pine Citizen, served...
Owens Valley residents, including men and women, eating during their occupation of the Alabama Gates, of the Los Angeles Aqueduct. This photograph may record either the barbecue held the final day of the occupation (20 November 1924) or else the...
Group of ranchers holding the Alabama Gates of the Los Angeles Aqueduct. Photographer's inscription in lower middle of photograph: "Bishop Ranchers in Possession of LA Water Supply Nov. 16-20, 1924." Title supplied by cataloger.
Owens Valley residents' occupation of the Alabama Gates, of the Los Angeles Aqueduct. Occupiers gathered between bridge over aqueduct and shack. Flag flying over shack. Aqueduct still has water, indicating that this photograph was taken during an...
Parked automobiles of Owens Valley residents (described as "ranchers") during their occupation of the Alabama Gates, of the Los Angeles Aqueduct. In right background is spillway of the Gates. Majority of persons occupying the Alabama Gates to the...
Owens Valley residents, including men and women, during their occupation of the Alabama Gates, of the Los Angeles Aqueduct. Aqueduct in foreground. Bridge over aqueduct. Telephone poles visible. Photographer's inscription on front of photograph:...
Band of musicians in front of Alabama Gates of the Los Angeles Aqueduct. Children surround musicians. Western star Tom Mix, shooting a movie in the nearby Alabama Hills, supposedly sent a band to the Gates in support of the occupiers. ...
Owens Valley residents eating at the Alabama Gates of the Los Angeles Aqueduct. This photograph may record either the barbecue held the final day of the occupation (20 November 1924) or else the meals that wives of the occupiers served. The low...
A carbon copy of a typewritten letter, criticizing the usually smug, negative tone of Catholic periodicals of the time, commending an article written by McDonald in the Catholic newspaper, Commonweal, and calling for social reconstruction based on...
Angled view of the Glendale Sanitarium and Hospital located at the end of a landscaped yard and driveway. The Verdugo Mountains are in the background, right.
Diversion ditch from Big Pine Canal, most likely illegally cut by City of Los Angeles employees in August 1924. The ditch is now filled in, and the Big Pine Canal (background, lined with brush) was no longer in use a source of irrigation water for...
Former farmhouse of "Osborne" near Fish Springs, California, of the Owens Valley, purchased by the City of Los Angeles in 1924. Unidentified hills in background. Shed in background. Text on back of photograph in hand of J. D. Black: "Formerly...
Diversion ditch from Big Pine Canal, most likely illegally cut by City of Los Angeles employees in August 1924. The ditch is now filled in, and the Big Pine Canal (background, lined with brush) was no longer in use a source of irrigation water for...
Owens Valley residents, including men and women, during their occupation of the Alabama Gates, of the Los Angeles Aqueduct. Photographer's inscription on lower right of photograph: "Army of Occupation L. A. Aqueduct." In lower left corner is...
Bishop, California ranchers releasing water from the Alabama Gates of the Los Angeles Aqueduct. This photograph may have been taken during the initial stages of the occupation since the water is flowing strongly. Photographer's inscription at...
If I am not on the JOB, You can find me at the AQUEDUCT was the rallying cry for the people of Bishop, California, during their occupation of the Alabama Gates of the Los Angeles Aqueduct. The slogan was posted in Bishop to inform persons where the...
