Officials attending the dedication of the Bouquet Canyon Reservoir, 1934

Item Overview

Title

Officials attending the dedication of the Bouquet Canyon Reservoir, 1934

Date Created

March 28, 1934

Date

1934-03-28

Publisher

Los Angeles Times

Language

No linguistic content

Collection

OpenUCLA Collections
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Notes

Description

View of the officials at 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. On the left Los Angeles Mayor Frank Shaw (probably) and H. A. Van Norman, Chief Engineer and General Manager of the Bureau of Water Works (probably) pull on ropes as the water gates rise. More than 50 persons attended the opening including 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.
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]
Spillway shaft

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

Location

Bouquet Canyon (Calif.)

Longitude

34.577717

Latitude

-118.386119

Resource type

still image

Subjects

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