October 25, 2016

California’s Owens Valley Water Wars

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The J.D. Black Papers | When the City of Los Angeles acquired the rights to transport Owens Valley water south, J.D. Black documented the battles as well as the economic aftermath by collecting documents and images and taking his own photographs. Watch our slide show to see some of the images of life in the Owens Valley before and after Los Angeles came to town.