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Title
Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors signing contract for San Gabriel Dam construction, Los Angeles, 1933
Date Created and/or Issued
1933
Publication Information
Los Angeles Times
Contributing Institution
UCLA, Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library
Collection
Los Angeles Times Photographic Archives
Rights Information
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.
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.
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.
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.
Text from nitrate negative sleeve: Thatcher, Hugh A., [1924?] [1934?]
Type
Image
Format
b&w nitrate negative
Identifier
uclamss_1429_3753
3753
ark:/21198/zz002cpds9
Language
No linguistic content
Subject
Government
Los Angeles County (Calif.). Board of Supervisors
Quinn, John R., 1889-1979
Thatcher, Hugh A., 1876-1957
Jessup, Roger W., 1889-1971
Baine, Harry M., 1886-1945
Anderson, F. J
Hall of Records (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Beatty, Frances
Shaw, Frank L., 1877-1958
Source
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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