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Title: Samuel Morris quits water department, Pasadena, 1935
Date Created and/or Issued: April 19, 1935
1935-04-19
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.
Samuel Morris announcing with spectators behind him that he is quitting the Pasadena Water Department and taking a job as a teacher at Stanford. The speech looks to be given at the Morris Dam which was dedicated to him and Pasadena by Herbert Hoover for his 22 years of service at the Pasadena Water Department as Chief Engineer & General Manager.
Related to article, "PASADENA WATER HEAD QUITS POST...", Los Angeles Times, 19 Apr. 1934: A5
Handwritten on negative: Samuel Morris
Handwritten on negative sleeve: Morris, Samuel, Pasadena, 1935--x, H. Hoover...pix
Type: image
Format: b&w nitrate negative
Identifier: uclamss_1429_6745
ark:/21198/zz002cx16b
Language: No linguistic content
Subject: Dams--California--Pasadena
Engineers--California
Spectators--California--Pasadena
Morris Dam (Pasadena, Calif.)
Morris, Samuel B. (Samuel Brooks), 1890-1962
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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