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Title: Morris Dam plaque
Alternative Title: Works Progress Administration Photo Collection
Date Created and/or Issued: 1937
Publication Information: Federal Writers' Project.; Pasadena (Calif.).Water and Power Department
Contributing Institution: Los Angeles Public Library
Collection: Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection
Rights Information: Images available for reproduction and use. Please see the Ordering & Use page at http://tessa.lapl.org/OrderingUse.html for additional information.
Description: A commemorative plaque explaining Morris Dam in San Gabriel Canyon, seen on June 17, 1937. The dam was named in honor of Samuel B. Morris, Chief Engineer and General Manager of the Pasadena Water Department, and dedicated on May 26, 1934, by Herbert Hoover. It was constructed by the City of Pasadena Water Department for the storage of domestic water, to be later used by the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California as a storage unit for Colorado River water. Photo dated June 17, 1937.
Type: image
Format: 1 photograph :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00058562
Works Progress Administration Collection
WPA 907 4x5
CARL0000062246
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/1886
Subject: Dams--California--Los Angeles County
Reservoirs--California--Los Angeles County
Water-supply--California--Los Angeles County
Plaques, plaquettes--California--Los Angeles County
Works Progress Administration Collection photographs
Morris Dam (Calif.)
Metropolitan Water District of Southern California (Calif.)
Morris, Samuel B

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