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Title
Big
Pine
,
Thomas
farm
,
abandoned
Creator
Black
,
J
.
D
.
(John
David)
,
1893-1960
Date Range
circa
1930-1939
Description
View
of
trees
and
barren
land
in a
desolate
farm
.
Inscription
by
J
.
D
.
Black
on the
back
of
photograph
: "
Thomas
place.
"
Note
Farm
was
probably
purchased
and
abandoned
by the
City
of
Los
Angeles
. To
meet
the
need
for
water
of its
growing
population
, the
City
of
Los
Angeles
began
acquiring
water
rights
in the
Owens
Valley
in
1905
. The
Los
Angeles
Aqueduct
was
completed
in
1913
to
bring
Owens
Valley
water
to the
city
.
During
the
1920s
, the
City
of
Los
Angeles
began
additional
large-scale
purchases
of
land
in the
Owens
Valley
to
increase
its
supply
of
water
from the
valley
,
resulting
in the
city's
almost
complete
control
of the
valley's
agricultural
land
. This
led
to a
decline
in the
valley's
agricultural
infrastructure
and
economy
. A
resident
of
Big
Pine
and
leader
of
resistance
against
Los
Angeles
,
J
.
D
.
Black
(1893-1960)
used
such
photographs
as these to
document
the
deterioration
of the
Owens
Valley
.
Physical Description
1
black-and-white
photograph
;
7
x
12
cm
Genre
Photographs
Subject
Abandoned
farms--California--Big
Pine
;
Orchards--California--Big
Pine
;
Agriculture--California--Owens
Valley
;
Land
use
;
Water
rights--California--Owens
Valley
;
Water
rights--California--Los
Angeles
Geographic Location
Big
Pine
(Calif.)
Repository
Department
of
Archives
and
Special
Collections
,
William
H
.
Hannon
Library
,
Loyola
Marymount
University
Collection Title
J
.
D
.
Black
Papers
Collection Number
CSLA-15
Container Information
Series
3
.
Photographs
;
Box
No
.
17
;
Folder
No
.
14
Identifier
sc_jdbp006420001
Copyright
http://library.lmu.edu/generalinformation/departments/digitallibraryprogram/copyrightandreproductionpolicy/
Sponsor
Support
provided
by the
Metabolic
Studio
.
Type
Image
Format
image/tiff
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