Dedication of the Boquet Canyon Reservoir with William P. Whitsett, Mayor Frank Shaw, H. A. Van Norman, and others, 1934

Item Overview

Title

Dedication of the Boquet Canyon Reservoir with William P. Whitsett, Mayor Frank Shaw, H. A. Van Norman, and others, 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

Dedication of Boquet Reservoir with an unidentified woman; an unidentified man, William P. Whitsett, Chairman of the Metropolitan Water District; Los Angeles Mayor Frank Shaw; an unidentified man; and H. A. Van Norman, Chief Engineer and General Manager of the Bureau of Water Works standing next to the gates of the concrete inlet-outlet tower after the water began to flow out to fill the reservoir.
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]

Caption

Text from negative sleeve: California, Boquet Canyon Dam

Physical Description

Extent

1 photograph

Medium

b&w nitrate negative

Keywords

Genre

news photographs
cellulose nitrate film

Names

Van Norman, H. A. (Harvey Arthur), 1878-1954
Shaw, Frank L., 1877-1958
Whitsett, W. P. (William Paul), 1875-1965

Location

Bouquet Canyon (Calif.)

Longitude

34.58877471813490

Latitude

-118.37725639343300

Resource type

still image

Subjects

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