Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors signing contract for San Gabriel Dam construction, Los Angeles, 1933

Item Overview

Title

Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors signing contract for San Gabriel Dam construction, Los Angeles, 1933

Date Created

1933

Publisher

Los Angeles Times

Language

No linguistic content

Collection

Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Notes

Description

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.

Caption

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?]

Physical Description

Extent

1 photograph

Medium

b&w nitrate negative

Keywords

Genre

cellulose nitrate film
news photographs

Subjects

Government

Names

Los Angeles County (Calif.). Board of Supervisors
Hall of Records (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Baine, Harry M., 1886-1945
Beatty, Frances
Thatcher, Hugh A., 1876-1957
Shaw, Frank L., 1877-1958
Quinn, John R., 1889-1979
Jessup, Roger W., 1889-1971
Anderson, F. J.

Longitude

34.054888

Latitude

-118.244349

Resource type

still image