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Dedication of the Boquet Canyon Reservoir with William P. Whitsett, Mayor Frank Shaw, H. A. Van Norman, and others, 1934

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Title: Dedication of the Boquet Canyon Reservoir with William P. Whitsett, Mayor Frank Shaw, H. A. Van Norman, and others, 1934
Date Created and/or Issued: March 28, 1934
1934-03-28
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
Description: Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds.
Related to published Los Angeles Times photographs with the caption: Here's Where Flow Started; View of Control Tower [Los Angeles Times, "Water in New Reservoir," 3/29/1934]
Dedication of Boquet Reservoir with an unidentified woman; an unidentified man, William P. Whitsett, Chairman of the Metropolitan Water District; Los Angeles Mayor Frank Shaw; an unidentified man; and H. A. Van Norman, Chief Engineer and General Manager of the Bureau of Water Works standing next to the gates of the concrete inlet-outlet tower after the water began to flow out to fill the reservoir.
Text from negative sleeve: California, Boquet Canyon Dam
Type: image
Format: b&w nitrate negative
Identifier: uclamss_1429_0348
ark:/21198/zz002d9m4v
Language: No linguistic content
Subject: Events
Government
Bouquet Canyon Reservoir (Calif.)
Reservoirs--California--Bouquet Canyon
Shaw, Frank L., 1877-1958
Van Norman, H. A. (Harvey Arthur), 1878-1954
Whitsett, W. P. (William Paul), 1875-1965
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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