Genre: cellulose nitrate film / Names: Arizona. National Guard / Subject: People - UCLA Library Digital Collections Search Results

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Description:: 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.
Date:: 1934
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection