Officials at the inlet-outlet tower at the Bouquet Canyon Reservoir during the dedication ceremony, 1934

Item Overview

Title

Officials at the inlet-outlet tower at the Bouquet Canyon Reservoir during the dedication ceremony, 1934

Date Created

March 28, 1934

Date

1934-03-28

Publisher

Los Angeles Times

Language

No linguistic content

Collection

Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Notes

Description

View of the officials and a truck next to 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. More than 50 persons attended the opening including Mayor Shaw; H. A. Van Norman, Chief Engineer and General Manager of the Bureau of Water Works; 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.

Caption

Text from newspaper 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

Physical Description

Extent

1 photograph

Medium

b&w nitrate negative

Keywords

Genre

cellulose nitrate film
news photographs

Location

Bouquet Canyon (Calif.)

Longitude

34.58877471813490

Latitude

-118.37725639343300

Resource type

still image

Subjects

Reservoirs--California--Bouquet Canyon
Government
Environment
Bouquet Canyon Reservoir (Calif.)
Events