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Contributing Institution:
Library and Archives at the Autry
Title: A.L. Harris Water Project Papers
Creator:
Harris, Archie Lee
Identifier/Call Number: MS.1351
Physical Description:
1 Linear Feet
(1 box)
Date (inclusive): 1919-1922
Language of Material:
English
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Copyright has not been assigned to the Autry Museum of the American West. All requests for permission to publish or quote
from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the Head of Research Services and Archives. Permission for publication is
given on behalf of the Autry Museum of the American West as the custodian of the physical items and is not intended to include
or imply permission of the copyright holder, which must also be obtained by the reader.
The A.L. Harris Water Project Papers contain photographs, correspondence, and memorandums of agreement related to water projects
Harris worked on in the early 1920s. Projects include the Paradise Verde Irrigation District (1920-1922), Lotus Valley Water
Users Association Project (1921-1922), Southwest Cotton Company near Avondale, Arizona, Manhattan Beach Pier (1921), Granite
Reef Dam, and the Houdo Project in Carlsbad, New Mexico. Correspondence is primarily between A.L. Harris and F.H. Newell.
There are also photographs of Panama from 1900-1901, newspaper clippings related to Theodore Roosevelt, and unidentified photographs
of a substation in Arizona.
Processed by Mallory Furnier, 2015.
A.L. Harris Water Project Papers, 1919-1921, Braun Research Library Collection, Autry Museum of the American West, Los Angeles; MS 1351; [folder number] [folder
title][date].
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Irrigation
Agua Fria (El Mirage, Ariz.)
Panama Canal (Panama)
Water
Costa Rica
Arizona
California
Water use -- Arizona
Photography of water
Correspondence
Gila River (N.M. and Ariz.)
Civil engineering
Southwest Cotton Company
Photographs