Subject: Colorado River (Colo.-Mexico) - UCLA Library Digital Collections Search Results

Description:: A distant view of Fort Yuma on the Fort Yuma Reservation near Winterhaven (California). It is viewed from the west bank of the Colorado River in Yuma. A wooden barrier fence stretches across the image and lines the bank of the Colorado River in the foreground. The Colorado River runs behind it. On the opposite bank, buildings that make up Fort Yuma stand atop a small hill.
Date:: [circa 1899]
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: West, H. H. (Henry Hebard), 1872-1958
Collection:: West (H. H.) Collection

Description:: Photographs are mounted on rectos of leaves of black paper, in various arrangements of 1-4 photos per leaf, with some leaves displaying up to 6 photos, depending on size; captions are typed, or hand-written, and include description of subject, location, and date.
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Photograph album collection, circa 1850-1964

Description:: Photographs are mounted on rectos of leaves of black paper, in various arrangements of 1-4 photos per leaf, with some leaves displaying up to 6 photos, depending on size; captions are typed, or hand-written, and include description of subject, location, and date.
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Photograph album collection, circa 1850-1964

Description:: View across the Laguna Diversion Dam, spanning the Colorado River.
Date:: August 1936
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Compton, O. C. (Oliver Cecil), 1903-
Collection:: Harry French Blaney Papers, 1919-1970

Description:: Related to article “History in the Making, Events of the Week in Review,” Los Angeles Times, March 11, 1934. The article states: " … Arizona’s “war” on California to prevent the building of the Metropolitan Water District’s dam at Parker got under way at the week-end with the mobilization on orders of Gov. Moeur of five soldiers and one officer of the Arizona National Guard at the dam site. California officials professed not to be much worried. The dam is to be built, not by the State or water district, but by the Federal government, and Gov. Moeur may have Uncle Sam to contend with if he interferes."
Date:: 1934
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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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

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

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

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

Description:: Section of Colorado River, with calm water in foreground, desert area with shrubs, dunes, and mountains in background
Date:: 1934
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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