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Collection
Identifier: H-Mss-0111
Abstract:
This collection contains documents about Cyrus Grandison Baldwin's involvement with water issues in the Pomona Valley and San Bernardino Mountains from 1897-1937.
Dates:
1891-1955
Collection
Identifier: H-Mss-0350
Abstract:
This collection comprises tax returns, receipts, and a legal document (that documents H. C. Anderson's ownership to the Bogigian Fruit Ranch).
Dates:
1927-1938
Collection
Identifier: H-Mss-0488
Abstract
The collection contains Edward R. Bowen's memorandum, letters, and a report on the water supply and water rights of various areas in Southern California. An employee of the Spring Valley Water Company, Bowen worked as a consulting engineer for water-related enterprises in both Southern and Northern California. Here, Bowen proposes costs and feasibility of developing water supplies and gives background information, such as water rights, on the water companies already in place within Southern...
Dates:
1920-1942
Collection
Identifier: H-Mss-0204
Abstract
The Claremont Heights Irrigation Company was incorporated on March 14, 1913, as a mutual water company and was dissolved on August 1, 1977. Located in Claremont, California, the company provided water services for its stockholders. The collection consists of administrative files, financial records, and operational materials of the company between its founding in 1912 and its closing in 1977, with some supplemental materials dating between 1909-1981. The collection also contains materials...
Dates:
1909-1981 and undated
Collection
Identifier: H-Mss-0049
Abstract
Frederick Cecil Finkle (1865-1949) was an engineer and geologist who worked as Chief Engineer, Consulting Engineer, and expert in hydraulic work for at least 20 irrigation and water project companies in California, Colorado, Oregon, Washington, and Mexico. Among these were the mutual water companies in the Imperial Valley of California; the Southern California Edison Company; Arrowhead Reservoir and Power Company, Redlands and Yucaipa Land and Water Company, Mount Hood Railway and Power...
Dates:
1850-1981
Collection
Identifier: h19xx.0014
Abstract:
This collection of contains documents about water rights and water supply in California from 1930-1957 and two documents related to water use in New Mexico from 1925-1957.
Dates:
1925-1957
Collection
Identifier: H-Mss-0449
Abstract:
His papers contain field notebooks when Willis S. Jones was superintendent of Claremont Domestic Water Company and consulting engineer Vail Company, legal cases on water rights and supply, maps of Southern California, photographs of San Gabriel Valley, rainfall and run-off records from Southern California, reports on water use in Southern California, the San Gabriel investigation, an water rights and water supply in Southern California from 1919-1979.
Dates:
1919-1979
Collection
Identifier: H-Mss-0545
Abstract:
Metropolitan Water District reports, publications, correspondence, clippings, and meeting minutes.
Dates:
1919-1967
Collection
Identifier: H-Mss-0584
Abstract
Materials in this collection consist of Reuel Olson's notes, letters, newspaper clippings, government-related documents, and other research materials that became his doctoral thesis on the Colorado River Compact: a seven state agreement on the allocation of water resources in the Colorado River basin. Olson, a law professor at University of Southern California School of Law, wrote his thesis to satisfy requirements for his doctorate at Harvard University. These materials provide historical...
Dates:
1919-1967 and undated
Collection
Identifier: H-Mss-0595
Abstract
Collection consists of newspaper clippings, government publications, reports, a map, and other documents related to the Los Angeles Aqueduct and conflict with Owens Valley residents. Papers represent the voices of Los Angeles County government officials, disgruntled Owens Valley residents, engineers, and individuals writing about the Los Angeles Aqueduct. Materials detail the water battle between Owens Valley residents and Los Angeles officials through newspapers, propaganda, and other...
Dates:
1907-1981; Majority of material found within 1927 - 1933
