Samuel Morris quits water department, Pasadena, 1935

Description: 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
Caption: Handwritten on negative: Samuel Morris
Handwritten on negative sleeve: Morris, Samuel, Pasadena, 1935--x, H. Hoover...pix

Genre: cellulose nitrate film
news photographs
Names: Morris, Samuel B. (Samuel Brooks), 1890-1962
Location: Pasadena (Calif.)
Longitude: 34.174722
Latitude: -117.881111
Resource type: still image
Subjects: Dams--California--Pasadena
Engineers--California
Spectators--California--Pasadena
Morris Dam (Pasadena, Calif.)

Repository: University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
Local Identifier: uclamss_1429_6745
ARK: ark:/21198/zz002cx16b
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