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
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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
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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
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cellulose nitrate film
news photographs - Subjects
- Government
- Names
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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
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- University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
- Local identifier
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uclamss_1429_3753
3753 - ARK
- ark:/21198/zz002cpds9
- Manifest url
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- The Regents of the University of California
- Rights Country
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