US UCLA Library Special Collections, A1713 Charles E. Young Research Library, Box 951575, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575. Email: spec-coll@library.ucla.edu. Phone: (310) 825-4988
Description
Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds. This photograph appears with the article "Action of Supervisors Makes More Construction Jobs, Work on Dam Starts Today, Supervisors Sign Contract for San Gabriel No. 1, Rock-Fill Structure Will Cost $8,600,527, Job Will Employ 400 of Workmen in County." Los Angeles Times, 17 Jan. 1933. Construction company vice-president F.J. Anderson and mayor Frank Shaw seated, signing papers at table with books, papers, gavel, and pens, with Roger Jessup, Frances Beatty, Hugh Thatcher, Harry Baine, and John Quinn standing behind them. They are in the new quarters (as of 1932) of the County Supervisors on the 5th floor of the Hall of Records, located at 220 N. Broadway. The walls of the room are decorated with laurel panel molding above marble panels. Text from nitrate negative sleeve: Thatcher, Hugh A., [1924?] [1934?] Text from newspaper caption: When San Gabriel Dam Contact Was Signed. Left to right, standing--Supervisor Jessup, Miss Frances Beatty, Supervisors Thatcher, Baine, and Quinn. Seated--F.J. Anderson, who signed for the West Slope Construction Company, and Chairman Shaw, who signed for the Board of Supervisors.
Type
image
Format
b&w nitrate negative
Identifier
3753 uclamss_1429_3753 ark:/21198/zz002cpds9
Language
No linguistic content
Subject
Government Hall of Records (Los Angeles, Calif.) Shaw, Frank L., 1877-1958 Quinn, John R., 1889-1979 Baine, Harry M., 1886-1945 Anderson, F. J Thatcher, Hugh A., 1876-1957 Jessup, Roger W., 1889-1971 Beatty, Frances Los Angeles County (Calif.). Board of Supervisors
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