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Title
Irrigation map of the Colorado River Basin
Alternative Title
Security Pacific National Bank Photo Collection
Date Created and/or Issued
1921
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
Originally named Boulder Dam, it was renamed Hoover Dam in 1946. Shown here is a an irrigation map by the Department of the Interior Bureau of Reclamation. It includes parts of Riverside and Imperial Counties (Calif.) and Lower California (now Baja). It traces the Colorado River and the proposed All American Canal and marks land which is already irrigated and land they expect to irrigate in the future.
Type
Image
Format
1 photograph :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier
00009870
Security Pacific National Bank Collection
Industries-Water and Power-Reservoirs-Hoover Dam.; N-000-388.1 5x7
CARL0000011633
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/84078
Subject
Dams--Arizona
Dams--Nevada
Hoover Dam (Ariz. and Nev.)
Colorado River Watershed (Colo.-Mexico)
United States.Bureau of Reclamation

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