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Title: Historical sketch of the Los Angeles Aqueduct
Creator: Kelly, Allen
Contributor: American Engraving & Electrotype Company
Bledsoe
Times-Mirror Printing & Binding House
Date Created and/or Issued: 1913
Publication Information: Times-Mirror Printing and Binding House, Los Angeles, California
Honnold/Mudd Library. Special Collections
Contributing Institution: Claremont Colleges Library
Collection: California Water Documents
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Rights Holder and Contact: Claremont Colleges Library, Special Collections
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Description: Book describes Mulholland's idea to create the Los Angeles Aqueduct and then narrates the aqueduct's creation. Book also contains plentiful pictures of the aqueduct and area surrounding as well as portraits of important people related to the aqueduct's construction. Map of the area and a profile of the aqueduct in graph form are also included.
Type: text
Identifier: cwd00215
http://ccdl.claremont.edu/cdm/ref/collection/cwd/id/3085
Language: English
Subject: Aqueducts
Aqueducts--California
Board of Water and Power Commissioners of the City of Los Angeles
Bookplates
Chaffee, Adna Romanza, 1842-1914
Charts, diagrams, etc
Electrotyping
Landscape photography
Lippincott, Joseph Barlow, 1864-1942
Los Angeles Aqueduct (Calif.)
Maps
Mayors
Mulholland, William, 1855-1935
Photographs
Portraits
Portraits, Group
Scattergood, E. F. (Ezra Frederick), 1871-1947
Place: Los Angeles (Calif.)
Owens Valley (Calif.)
Source: Monograph, 129 scanned pages: Historical sketch of the Los Angeles Aqueduct, TD225.L7 K2, Water Resources Collection, Special Collections, Honnold/Mudd Library
Relation: Water Resources Collection
California Water Documents - https://ccdl.claremont.edu/digital/collection/cwd

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