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The course of water : fieldnotes from California's Owens Valley
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Owens Valley Water and Land
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A collection of 371 items from 1835 to 1938, which contains letters, manuscripts, documents, and maps, in both English and Spanish, related to the life and career of Reginaldo Francisco Del Valle. It includes material on California politics and government, water resources, agriculture in the Owens Valley, the St. Francis Dam disaster, Stephen Mallory White, the Del Valle family (including a copy of the will of Ygnacio del Valle) and the William Mulholland Memorial. There are also land papers for the Camulos Ranch in Ventura County, California.
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Owens Valley, California
Manuscripts
The collection consists of the literary and personal papers of American novelist, essayist and political activist Mary Hunter Austin (1868-1943), best known for her portrayals of life in California and New Mexico. It includes correspondence and literary manuscripts by both Austin and numerous other authors, editors and friends, as well as ephemera and photographs. Literary manuscripts include Austin's personal journals, short stories, poems, essays, and numerous drafts of novels. The correspondence deals with Austin's personal life and business dealings as well as her activities with Indian rights and the water right controversies in California's Owens Valley and in the Southwest. There are also materials related to Austin's interests in folklore and religion in New Mexico and the Southwest. The more than 1,200 photographs in the collection date from 1869 to the 1920s and include personal and family photographs of Mary Austin, her friends, relatives, homes, and various topics related to her interests.
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California Electric Power Corp. - Nevada Power, Milling, & Mining Co. - Owens Valley hydroelectric projects, mining operations
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Owens Valley hydroelectric projects, mining operations, [wood face dams at South Lake, and Lake Sabrina].
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Owens Valley views
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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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California Electric Power Corp. - Nevada Power, Milling, & Mining Co. - Owens Valley hydroelectric projects, mining operations
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California Electric Power Corp. - Nevada Power, Milling, & Mining Co. - Owens Valley hydroelectric projects, mining operations, [wood face dams at South Lake, and Lake Sabrina].
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Photograph album of automobile road trips in Owens Valley, California
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A photograph album of group automobile trips chiefly through the Owens Valley, California area in 1932, including visits to the towns of Lone Pine, Panamint City, and Independence; hiking in the eastern Sierra Nevada Mountains; rifle shooting; and drives to mines and mining camps. Several images depict the filming of the Western movie "Flaming Guns" (1932) around Lone Pine, showing the film crew and actor Tom Mix. The unknown photographer may have been working at the Natural Soda Products Company plant, which was situated on the dry lakebed of Owens Lake near Keeler, as there are several images of the mineral plant, the Keeler swimming pool, and a small bedroom captioned "my room at N.S.P. Co." Other images show an Easter service in Keeler, the Cerro Gordo Mine, Estelle Mine, Onion Valley, and in Nevada, the towns of Lida and Goldfield. There are also travel scenes with friends and family in Southern California, including Hermosa Beach, Redondo Beach, Palos Verdes peninsula, and crowds at a Christian Endeavor convention in Whittier.
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