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Metropolitan Water District Southern California Photographs (2005)
Estate sale find, a facsimile of a photo album found in the Metropolitan Water District archives. From the forward:
"... It s a copy of an album of photos taken throughout the surveying and construction of the Metropolitan Water District's Colorado River Aqueduct.... We found the album in our archives as we prepared for Metropolitan's 75th Anniversary in 2003.
For a commemorative book, we reproduced the beautiful, frayed covers (even the piece of tape on the back), most of the corner mounted snapshots, and their original captions."
Wes Bannister Chairman of the board (2005)
The Colorado River Aqueduct, or CRA, is a 242 mile water conveyance in Southern California, operated by the Metropolitan Water District. The aqueduct impounds water from the Colorado River at Lake Havasu on the California-Arizona border west across the Mojave and Colorado deserts to the east side of the Santa Ana Mountains.
It is one of the primary sources of drinking water for Southern California.Originally conceived by William Mulholland and designed by Chief Engineer Frank E. Weymouth of the MWD, it was the largest public works project in southern California during the Great Depression. The project employed 30, 000 people over an eight-year period and as many as 10, 000 at one time.
Product Dimensions: 7.25" X 10.75", unpaginated, approximately .25" thick, shipping weight: 1.7 pounds.
PLEASE SEE PHOTOS FOR ADDITIONAL DETAILS - The book is in overall Good used condition, signs of wear, soiling, age toning, fading, creases, no writing, no odors, please see images.
(B5-911)
Metropolitan Water District Southern California Photographs (2005)
Estate sale find, a facsimile of a photo album found in the Metropolitan Water District archives. From the forward:
"... It s a copy of an album of photos taken throughout the surveying and construction of the Metropolitan Water District's Colorado River Aqueduct.... We found the album in our archives as we prepared for Metropolitan's 75th Anniversary in 2003.
For a commemorative book, we reproduced the beautiful, frayed covers (even the piece of tape on the back), most of the corner mounted snapshots, and their original captions."
Wes Bannister Chairman of the board (2005)
The Colorado River Aqueduct, or CRA, is a 242 mile water conveyance in Southern California, operated by the Metropolitan Water District. The aqueduct impounds water from the Colorado River at Lake Havasu on the California-Arizona border west across the Mojave and Colorado deserts to the east side of the Santa Ana Mountains.
It is one of the primary sources of drinking water for Southern California.Originally conceived by William Mulholland and designed by Chief Engineer Frank E. Weymouth of the MWD, it was the largest public works project in southern California during the Great Depression. The project employed 30, 000 people over an eight-year period and as many as 10, 000 at one time.
Product Dimensions: 7.25" X 10.75", unpaginated, approximately .25" thick, shipping weight: 1.7 pounds.
PLEASE SEE PHOTOS FOR ADDITIONAL DETAILS - The book is in overall Good used condition, signs of wear, soiling, age toning, fading, creases, no writing, no odors, please see images.
(B5-911)
