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. Spillway shaft View of the officials at the concrete inlet-outlet tower, 130 feet high, at the Bouquet Canyon Reservoir during the dedication ceremony when the water was first released to fill the reservoir. On the left Los Angeles Mayor Frank Shaw (probably) and H. A. Van Norman, Chief Engineer and General Manager of the Bureau of Water Works (probably) pull on ropes as the water gates rise. More than 50 persons attended the opening including William Mulholland; Henry L. Jacques, E. F. Scattergood; President Hugh J. McGuire of the Board of Public Works; Lloyd Aldrich, City Engineer; Water Power Commissioner Arthur J. Mullen; T. A. Panter; William W. Hurlbut and Mrs. Harriett Sunday of the Civil Service Commission; J. B. Lippincott, consulting engineer; and President William P. Whitsett of the Metropolitan Water District. 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] Text from negative sleeve: California, Boquet Canyon Dam
Type
image
Format
b&w nitrate negative
Identifier
uclamss_1429_0349 ark:/21198/zz002d9m5c
Language
No linguistic content
Subject
Reservoirs--California--Bouquet Canyon Environment Bouquet Canyon Reservoir (Calif.) Events Shaw, Frank L., 1877-1958 Van Norman, H. A. (Harvey Arthur), 1878-1954
Source
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection OpenUCLA Collections
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