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Colorado River Aqueduct (Calif.)

 Subject
Subject Source: Local sources

Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:

Reuel Olson Papers on the Colorado River Compact, Water Resources Collection

 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

A. L. Sonderegger papers, Water Resources Collection

 Collection
Identifier: H-Mss-0603
Abstract:

Metropolitan Water District reports, publications, correspondence, clippings, and meeting minutes. He was the Los Angeles Consulting Engineer. Reuel Olson mentioned him in his book the Colorado River Compact. In addition he was vice President of the Los Angeles Section of the American Society of Civil Engineers (1930).

Dates: 1850-1964

Frank Elwin Weymouth papers, Water Resources Collection

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: H-Mss-0943
Abstract:

This collection contains Weymouth's personal papers including correspondence, his publications and speeches, and photographs all relating to the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California, the construction of Boulder Dam (Hoover Dam) and the Colorado River Aqueduct from 1894-1941.

Dates: 1894-1941