Ferry Nellie Jo, protecting Colorado River from construction of Parker Dam, near Parker (Arizona), 1934

Item Overview

Title

Ferry Nellie Jo, protecting Colorado River from construction of Parker Dam, near Parker (Arizona), 1934

Date Created

1934

Date

1934

Publisher

Los Angeles Times

Language

No linguistic content

Collection

Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Notes

Description

Related to the article, “Guard Pays Dam Visit, Arizona Risks ‘Navy’ Craft, Julia B. Takes Governor’s Party From Parker to Scene of ‘Invasion,’ California Water District Crew Fails to Welcome ‘Foreigners' Arrival," Los Angeles Times, March 7, 1934. The article states: "…The Julia B., happily dubbed, for the occasion, Arizona’s navy, came through in grand style today by carrying Gov. Moeur’s military reconnaissance party fifteen miles up the murky Colorado … piloted by Capt. Tom Kinder and Ascension Esquerra. … It was the first time, since war days, that such a boat had come up the river. Once during the war the Julia B., or her sister ship the Nellie Jo, hauled twenty tons of manganese up the river. At the wheel most of the trip today was none other than the able woman member of the Arizona Legislature … Mrs. Nellie T. Bush [and] … her husband, Joe Bush..."
Men are possibly ferry pilots Tom Kinder and Ascension Esquerra
Ferry Nellie Jo, photographed from boat deck, with car on deck, man in shirt, tie, and hat and woman in skirt and blouse posing near car, man in pilot house, on Colorado River with shoreline and mountains in background
In 1934, with plans in place for United States Reclamation Service and the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California to build Parker Dam on the Colorado River between Arizona and California, Arizona governor Benjamin B. Moeur protested the diversion of water to California by sending members of the Arizona National Guard to the dam construction site. A local ferry service also participated under the informal name of the Arizona Navy.

Caption

Text from nitrate negative sleeve: (unidentified)

Physical Description

Extent

1 photograph

Medium

b&w nitrate negative

Keywords

Genre

cellulose nitrate film
news photographs

Names

Esquerra, Ascension, 1885 or 6-1979
Kinder, Tom
Nellie Jo (Ferry)

Location

Parker (Ariz.)

Resource type

still image

Subjects

Ferries--Arizona--Parker
Colorado River (Colo.-Mexico)
People
Activism
Environment
Parker Dam (Ariz. and Calif.)