Rare Books
Owens Valley progress citizen
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Inyo County. Owens Valley. Owens Valley Trip
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photCL 400 volume 2 & volume 3
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Owens Valley
Manuscripts
The collection consists of letters and documents (including 8 volumes) and 876 maps related to irrigation projects in the western United States. There are correspondence, reports, etc. regarding Colorado River projects (including the Colorado River-Los Angeles Gravity Flow Aqueduct); the Klamath Lake Project in Oregon; the Merced Irrigation District in California; the San Juan River, Little Colorado, and Verde projects in Arizona; and many others. Of note in the collection are diaries of La Rue's Colorado River trips from 1921, 1922, and 1924, and maps of western areas.
mssLa Rue papers
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Owens Valley
Visual Materials
The Charles Francis Saunders and Mira Culin Saunders Collection of Photographs and Negatives consists of 5826 black and white photographs, 68 glass plate negatives, 3832 film negatives, 10 photographs albums, 261 lantern slides, and related ephemera, ca. 1871-1965 (bulk 1910s-1920s), collected and created by Charles Francis Saunders, Elisabeth Hallowell Saunders, and Mira Culin Saunders. The collection provides a comprehensive overview of Charles Saunders' activities as a naturalist and travel writer.
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Owens Valley views
Visual Materials
A collection of photographs taken by A.A. Forbes in the Owens Valley in eastern California, showing views of the valley, Owens River, the construction of the Los Angeles Aqueduct, a panoramic photograph of a cattle ranch, Mount Whitney, and the city of Bishop. There is a group portrait of J.B. Lippincott, Fred Eaton, and William Mulholland captioned "The 'Fathers' of the Owens River Project," and a photograph of a letter sent to Mulholland by the Engineers and Architects Association of Southern California congratulating him on completion of the aqueduct. One photograph captures a dramatic flash of lightning and another shows the Devil's Postpile (identified in the caption as the "Devil's Pest Pile").
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