Finding Aid to the Hiram Newton Savage Photographs, 1905-1933
Processed by Marisa Escobar and Paul Atwood
Water Resources Collections and Archives
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Finding Aid to the Hiram Newton Savage Photographs, 1905-1933
Collection number: WRCA MS 76/16
Water Resources Collections and Archives
University of California, Riverside
Riverside, California
Contact Information:
- Water Resources Collections and Archives
- Orbach Science Library, Room 118
- PO Box 5900
- University of California, Riverside
- Riverside, CA 92517-5900
- Phone: (951) 827-2934
- Fax: (951) 827-6378
- Email: waterarc@ucr.edu
- URL: http://library.ucr.edu/wrca
- Collection Processed By:
- Marisa Escobar and Paul Atwood
- Date Completed:
-
April 2003
- Finding Aid written by:
- Paul Atwood and Paige Wooden
© 2003 The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
Descriptive Summary
Title: Hiram Newton Savage Photographs, 1905-1933
Collection number: WRCA MS 76/16
Creator:
Savage, Hiram Newton
extent:
15.25 linear ft.
(8 boxes)
Repository:
Water Resources Collections and Archives
Abstract: Photographs covering early U.S. Reclamation Service projects and water resources development projects throughout San Diego
County.
Physical location: Water Resources Collections and Archives
Language:
English.
Administrative Information
Access
Collection is open for research.
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Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], Hiram Newton Savage Photographs, WRCA MS 76/16, Water Resources Collections and Archives, University
of California, Riverside.
Biographical Information
HIRAM NEWTON SAVAGE, M. Am. Soc. C. E. Died June 24, 1934
Hiram Newton Savage was born in Lancaster, N. H., on October 6, 1861, the son of Hazen Nelson and Laura Ann (Newton) Savage.
He was the son of a farmer. After his public school education, Mr. Savage worked his way through the New Hampshire College
of Agriculture and the Mechanic Arts, at Durham, N. H., from which he was graduated in 1887, with the degree of Bachelor of
Science. In 1891, he was graduated from the Thayer School of Civil Engineering, of Dartmouth College, with the degree of Civil
Engineer. In 1913, the University of New Hampshire conferred upon him the honorary degree of Doctor of Science.
In 1888, Mr. Savage was Assistant Engineer, and, later, Resident Engineer, of the East Tennessee and Georgia Railway, the
Nashville and Tellico Railway, and the Athens (Tenn.) Improvement Company. From May to July, 1889, he served as Assistant
Engineer of the Hydraulic Mining Company, in the San Pedro Mining District, New Mexico, and from July, 1889, to April, 1890,
he was Chief Engineer of that Company and of the Rio Grande Water Company, in New Mexico, in charge of a survey of the Ortiz,
San Pedro, and Tejon Grants, embracing 100 000 acres; placer-mine prospecting and locations; ditch location and construction;
and preliminary location and estimate for a pipe line, 58 miles in length. From April to September, 1890, he was Engineer
of Billings Park, White River Junction, Vermont. In September of that year he located an extension of the sewerage system
of West Randolph, Vt.
After his graduation from the Thayer School of Civil Engineering in 1891, Mr. Savage went to Southern California, and was
employed by the San Diego Land and Town Company, of National City, Calif., as Chief Engineer, in charge of the construction
of the Sweetwater Dam and Distribution System that was to be used to furnish irrigation and domestic supply. His work included
the construction and reconstruction, operation, and maintenance of the System; the partition and subdivision of 40 000 acres
of land; the location, construction, and maintenance of the National City and Otay Railway; and the construction of Sweetwater
Park and Race Track, at National City.
In 1895, Mr. Savage became Consulting Engineer to the Southern California Mountain Water Company, in connection with the Morena,
Upper Otay, and Lower Otay Dams, and the water-carrying system to San Diego, Calif.
From 1898 to 1903, he was Consulting Engineer for the San Diego and Cuyamaca Railway Company, the San Diego and La Jolla Railway
Company, the Coronado Beach Railway Company, the Cuyamaca Water Company, and for the Contractor for the Zuninga Shoals Jetty,
in San Diego Harbor, a Government project.
In 1903, Mr. Savage was appointed Consulting Engineer in the United States Reclamation Service, the organization of which
had been begun the preceding year, and, from 1905 to 1915, he was Supervising Engineer of the Northern Division of that Service,
including the States of Montana, North Dakota, and Wyoming. The District included eleven primary projects: The Huntley, Lower
Yellowstone, Sun River, Milk River, St. Mary (storage), Flathead (Indian), Blackfeet (Indian), and Fort Peck (Indian) Projects,
in Montana; the Williston and Buford-Trenton Projects, in North Dakota; and the Shoshone Project, in Wyoming; all of which
were under construction and operation within the period of his service. He also investigated the irrigation possibilities
for about ten secondary projects, with a view to their construction when and if funds were made available. Among the many
important structures built on the primary projects were the Shoshone Dam, a concrete arch, 328 ft in height above the foundation,
then the highest dam in the world, and the Corbett Tunnel, 11 ft in diameter and 3 miles long. In addition to his work in
the Northern Division of the Reclamation Service, Mr. Savage at times served on Consulting Boards relative to the work in
other Divisions.
He resigned from the U. S. Reclamation Service in 1915 and, in 1916, became Consulting and Supervising Engineer for the Sweetwater
Water Company of California, engaged on the reconstruction and enlargement of the Sweetwater Dam, the spillway and abutments
of which had been damaged by the record flood of 1916.
From 1917 to 1923, Mr. Savage was Hydraulic Engineer for the City of San Diego, Calif. He supervised the design and construction
of the Barrett and the new Lower Otay Dams, the enlargement and reconstruction of Morena Dam and Spillway, and the extensions
to the City's rapid sand filtration plants. During this period, he compiled all known hydrographic and climatological data
for San Diego County, made estimates of the future water requirements for the City of San Diego and vicinity, investigated
available water resources, and made a plan of future water development for the city and its environs, together with plans
and estimates for the dams, reservoirs, carrying systems, and purification plants necessary for accomplishing this program.
He made filings of water appropriations and intiated proceedings for the acquisition of the necessary rights of way. Notwithstanding
the excellent and valuable work done by Mr. Savage during this engagement, his relations with the City Government of San Diego
were not at all agreeable. The City Council was composed largely of politicians, who had little appreciation of his work,
and whose actions were governed by political motives, rather than the good of the community. Finally, when attending a meeting
of the hostile City Council, he was subjected to a tirade of criticism and abuse, and was informed that his services were
terminated. Much to the chagrin of his opponents, who had expected a retort in kind, he replied calmly very well, and with
sedate dignity withdrew from the Council Chamber.
In 1923 and 1924, Mr. Savage made a trip around the world, visiting nineteen foreign countries, including Italy, Egypt, the
Sudan, the Holy Land, Java, the Philippine Islands, China, and Japan. A second tour was made in 1924 and 1925. On this tour,
he visited Hawaii and twenty foreign countries, including the South Sea Islands, New Zealand, Australia, the Philippine Islands,
and India, where he explored the Ganges and Indus River Systems. He visited also Mesopotamia, where he reported to both King
Feisal and to the British officials, on the irrigation and drainage requirements for the Government irrigation system at Irak.
He traveled overland across the Holy Land, and reported on Zion and National Home movements; inspected the drainage basin
in Egypt and the Sudan, traveling southward in Equatorial Africa more than 5 000 miles by railways, water routes, and overland
on foot, conveyed by a force of negro porters. He went into Abyssinia, through the Sudan to the Belgian Congo, continuing
through Uganda and across Lakes Albert Nyanza, Kioga, and Victoria Nyanza, to the head-waters of the Nile. Continuing southerly
he went through Kenya, via Nairobi and Tanganyika, to Zanzibar and the Indian Oceau, thence returning by way of the Red Sea
to Cairo, where he reported to the late King Fuad I, of Egypt, and to the Government officials of the Sudan, Egypt, and the
British Empire, on the irrigation requirements of Egypt and the Sudan, on the water resources and on the control of the Nile,
with recommendations to construct a third dam on the Nile at Nag Hamadi, and to increase the height of the Assuan Dam sufficiently
to double the present storage capacity.
In 1925 and 1926, Mr. Savage inspected twenty-five National, State, and Corporate irrigation projects, in the western part
of the United States and in Alberta, Canada, reporting to President Calvin Coolidge on their administrative, technical, social,
and economic conditions and requirements.
In 1926 and 1927, he made a tour of inspection of the majority of the Latin-American Republics in the West Indies, Central
America, and South America, going from New York, N. Y., to the West Indies, thence to Central America, through the Panama
Canal, along the West Coast of South America, by the Transandine Railway, from Valparaiso, Chile, to Buenos Aires, Argentine
Republic, and thence back to New York. Several trips were made into the Andes Mountains. From Buenos Aires he made a trip
inland of more than 1 800 miles. From Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, a trip was made into the interior of Brazil, to and down the
Alta Parana River, one of the principal tributaries of the Rio de la Plata. On this tour, studies were made of the natural
resources of the several countries, with reference to the feasibility of their development and utilization.
In 1927, Mr. Savage again made inspections of the principal irrigation projects in Western United States, reporting thereon
to President Coolidge. He also inspected irrigation and hydro-electric projects in Alberta and British Columbia, Canada.
In 1927 and 1928, he made a third trip around the world, visiting Latin-American Republics of South America, thence across
South America by the Transandine Railway, across the Atlantic, traveling 4 000 miles in South Africa, from Cape Town to the
Belgian Congo, continuing to Mozambique, Tanganyika, and Kenya, across the Indian Ocean, and to the interior of Northeast
India, thence to Arabia, Egypt, and the controlling works of the Nile. From here, he went to the Holy Land, thence over Asia
Minor to the Black Sea, continuing through Turkey, Greece, Italy, Switzerland, and France to England and Scotland. In these
latter countries, he inspected the water supply and work at Manchester, the combined water supply project of Manchester and
Liverpool, and the water supply of Glasgow, returning by way of Ireland, thence across the Atlantic to Canada and the United
States.
For a time Mr. Savage was associated with Research Service, Inc., of Washington, D. C.After five years of fruitless endeavor
by the City of San Diego, to make some progress in the development of its water resources, within which time the Sutherland
Dam was begun and later abandoned, the citizens had become so insistent in demanding the return of Mr. Savage that the City
Council deemed it necessary to comply with their demands; accordingly, on July 2, 1928, he again took charge of the Municipal
Bureau of Water Development, Operation, and Maintenance. From this time until his death he served the City with zeal and untiring
energy. Even during his last sickness, he insisted on being informed daily regarding the progress of the work under his charge.During
this last engagement negotiations and acquisitions of rights of way and water rights progressed as rapidly as economically
possible. Arrangement with the Federal Government was made relative to securing, when needed, an additional supply of water
from the Colorado River, and plans were developed for works for the conveyance of this supply. The El Capitan Dam was constructed
giving the city an additional supply of 10 000 000 gal per day.
Throughout his life Mr. Savage had an uncanny knowledge of human nature and exemplified great fortitude in overcoming obstacles
and in pushing work. His ability to find the ulterior motive, together with his unquestioned honesty of purpose and integrity,
made him loved by his friends and hated by those who opposed him.
His motto was the most good for the greatest number throughout the longest time. Stoical as an Indian, he was never swerved
by praise or criticism.
In recognition of the valuable work he had done for the City of San Diego in the development of its water supply, the City
Council on July 9, 1934, changed the name of Lower Otay Dam to Savage Dam.
His foresight and ability to anticipate future needs and plan accordingly were remarkable. Sweetwater, Barrett, Morena, El
Capitan, and Savage Dams, which will serve the inhabitants of the San Diego area for ages to come, will stand as monuments
to his ability as a man and as an engineer.
Mr. Savage was married in December, 1891, to Linna Bell Clough, of New Hampshire, who died in October, 1897. Two daughters
were born to them, Lucy Eunice (Mrs. Robert L. Colthart) and Laura Ada (Mrs. Lawrence W. Hoppe). In 1927, Mr. Savage was married
to Eugenia Hurlock, of Maryland, who, with his daughters, survives him.
He was a member of the University Club and the Rotary Club of San Diego. He was also a member of the Masonic Order.
Mr. Savage was elected an Associate Member of the American Society of Civil Engineers on March 7, 1894, and a Member on October
7, 1896.
American Society of Civil Engineers, Memoir (749) Memoir prepared by Charles P. Williams, M. Am. Soc. C. E.
Scope and Content of Collection
Photographs covering early U.S. Reclamation Service projects and water resources development projects throughout San Diego
County.
Indexing Terms
The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the library's online public access catalog.
Savage, H. N. (Hiram Newton), 1861-1934--Archives.
San Diego River Project (Calif.)--Photographs.
San Dieguito Project (Calif.)--Photographs.
Water resources development--West (U.S.)--Photographs.
Reclamation of land--West (U.S.)--Photographs.
Waterworks--California, Southern--Photographs.
Water-supply--California--San Diego--Photographs.
Water-supply engineering--California--San Diego County--Photographs.
Water resources development--California--San Diego County--Photographs.
Dams--California--San Diego County--Design and construction--Photographs.
Lower Otay Dam (Calif.)--Photographs.
Barrett Dam (Calif.)--Photographs.
El Capitan Dam (Calif.)--Photographs.
Morena Dam (Calif.)--Photographs.
Sweetwater Dam (Calif.)--Photographs.
Related Collections
Title: Savage (Hiram N.) Papers
Identifier/Call Number: WRCA SAVAGE
Title: Barrett and Morena Dams (H.N. Savage)
Identifier/Call Number: WRCA MS 76/9
Contributing Institution: Water Resources Collections and Archives
Box 1, Folder 1
Barret Dam, Unknown
Physical Description: 15 photographs (b & w)
Scope and Content Note
Photos of dam and watershed.
Box 1, Folder 2
Barret Dam, California, 1921
Physical Description: 7 photographs (b & w)
Scope and Content Note
Photos of construction, dam and people.
Box 1, Folder 3
Barret Dam site, 1902
Physical Description: 4 negatives
Scope and Content Note
Glass photos of watershed.
Box 1, Folder 4
Calaveras and Tujunga Dams, Unknown
Physical Description: 7 photographs (b & w)
Scope and Content Note
Glass photos of dam and dam site found in Box 7.
Box 1, Folder 5
El Capitan Dam site, 1917-1921
Physical Description: 26 photographs (b & w) and negatives.
Scope and Content Note
Photos of dam site and people, including typed notes.
Box 1, Folder 6
El Capitan Dam, Unknown
Physical Description: 8 photographs (b & w) and negatives
Scope and Content Note
Photos of structure and explosion.
Box 1, Folder 7
El Capitan Pipeline and Riverview wells, Unknown
Physical Description: 49 photographs (b & w) and negatives
Scope and Content Note
Photos of construction, including description of activities.
Box 1, Folder 8
Cheyenne Dam, 1904
Physical Description: 2 photographs (b & w)
Scope and Content Note
Photos of dam.
Box 1, Folder 9
Escondido Wohlford Reservoir Dam, 1932
Physical Description: 5 photographs (b & w) and negatives
Scope and Content Note
Photos of dam.
Box 1, Folder 10
Fallbrook Dam Site, 1932
Physical Description: 3 negatives
Scope and Content Note
Photos of dam site.
Box 1, Folder 11
Harvey Dam, 1916
Physical Description: 1 negative
Scope and Content Note
Photos of construction.
Box 1, Folder 12
Hodges and El Capitan Dams, 1938
Physical Description: 6 photographs (b & w) and negatives
Scope and Content Note
Photos of dam.
Box 1, Folder 13
L.A. County's San Gabriel No. 2 Dam, July 20, 1932
Physical Description: 1 negative
Scope and Content Note
Photos of dam site.
Box 1, Folder 14
Lower Otay, Unknown
Physical Description: 1 negative
Scope and Content Note
Glass photos of dam.
Box 1, Folder 15
Lower Otay Dam, 1910
Physical Description: 2 photographs (b & w)
Scope and Content Note
Oversize photos of lank found in Box 8.
Box 1, Folder 16
Lower Otay Dam, 1917-1919
Physical Description: 52 photographs (b & w) and negatives
Scope and Content Note
Photos of dam and people, including dedication.
Box 1, Folder 17
Lower Otay Dam Completed, 1920
Physical Description: 23 photographs (b & w) and negatives
Scope and Content Note
Photos of filtration plant.
Box 1, Folder 18
Lower Otay Filter Plant, 1919-1922
Physical Description: 9 photographs (b & w) and negatives
Scope and Content Note
Photos of dam.
Box 1, Folder 19
Marron Dam site, 1920
Physical Description: 10 negatives
Scope and Content Note
Photos of dam site.
Box 1, Folder 20
Merced Exchequer Dam, 1925
Physical Description: 6 negatives
Scope and Content Note
Photos of construction.
Box 1, Folder 21
La Mesa (Murray) Dam, 1917-1918
Physical Description: 32 photographs (b & w) and negatives
Scope and Content Note
Photos of construction and finished dam.
Box 1, Folder 22
Morena Barrett, 1926
Physical Description: 5 negatives
Scope and Content Note
Photos of dam.
Box 1, Folder 23
Morena Dam, 1897-1910
Physical Description: 17 photographs (b & w)
Scope and Content Note
Oversized photos of construction found in Box 8.
Box 1, Folder 24
Pasadena Pine Canyon Dam looking downstream, 1932
Physical Description: 10 photographs (b & w) and negatives
Scope and Content Note
Photos of construction.
Box 1, Folder 25
Pauba Dam Site, 1923
Physical Description: 4 negatives
Scope and Content Note
Photos of dam site.
Box 1, Folder 26
PG&E Silver Lake Dam, 1930
Physical Description: 1 negative
Scope and Content Note
Photo of reservoir.
Box 1, Folder 27
Pine Creek Dam Site, 1918
Physical Description: 2 photographs (b & w) and negatives
Scope and Content Note
Photos of dam site.
Box 1, Folder 28
El Prado Dam, 1943
Physical Description: 12 photographs (b & w)
Scope and Content Note
Oversized aerial oblique photos of dam found in Box 8.
Box 1, Folder 29
St. Francis Dam, Unknown
Physical Description: 7 photographs (b & w)
Scope and Content Note
Glass photos of dam and demolished concrete blocks found in Box 7
Box 1, Folder 30
Rodriguez Dam, 1928-1934
Physical Description: 18 photographs (b & w) and negatives
Scope and Content Note
Photos of dam construction and people.
Box 1, Folder 31
Rodriguez Dam, 1931
Physical Description: 15 negatives
Scope and Content Note
Photos of dam construction and people.
Box 2, Folder 32
S.C.M.W. Co. Cholla Heights Dam, 1901-1902
Physical Description: 20 photographs (b & w) and negatives
Scope and Content Note
Photos of earth dam.
Box 2, Folder 33
S.C.M.W. Co. Morena Dam, 1900
Physical Description: 17 photographs (b & w) and negatives
Scope and Content Note
Photos of dam.
Box 2, Folder 34
S.C.M.W. Co. Upper Otay Dam, 1901
Physical Description: 23 photographs (b & w)
Scope and Content Note
Photos of construction and finished dam.
Box 2, Folder 35
S.C.M.W. Co. Pipeline, Lower Otay, San Diego Main Pipeline to Bonita, 1902
Physical Description: 29 photographs (b & w)
Scope and Content Note
Photos of pipeline.
Box 2, Folder 36
S.C.M.W. Co. Barret Dam, 1903
Physical Description: 41 photographs (b & w)
Scope and Content Note
Photos of reservoir.
Box 2, Folder 37
S.C.M.W. Co. Jamul Ranch, 1900-03
Physical Description: 3 photographs (b & w) and negatives
Scope and Content Note
Photos of ranch house.
Box 2, Folder 38
Salt Springs Dam, 1929
Physical Description: 10 photographs (b & w) and negatives
Scope and Content Note
Photos of construction.
Box 2, Folder 39
Salt Springs Dam, Mokelumne River, PG&E, 1929
Physical Description: 4 photographs (b & w) and negatives
Scope and Content Note
Photos of construction.
Box 2, Folder 40
San Gabriel No. 2 Dam site, Unknown
Physical Description: 1 photograph (b & w)
Scope and Content Note
Photos of construction.
Box 2, Folder 41
San Gabriel Dam No. 1, 1929?-1932
Physical Description: 7 negatives
Scope and Content Note
Photos of construction.
Box 2, Folder 42
Sutherland Dam , 1927
Physical Description: 1 photograph (b & w)
Scope and Content Note
Photos of construction.
Box 2, Folder 43
Temecula Dam Site, 1923
Physical Description: 2 negatives
Scope and Content Note
Photos of dam site.
Box 2, Folder 44
Tia Juana River (Garcia) Dam Site, 1920
Physical Description: 16 negatives
Scope and Content Note
Photos of dam site.
Box 2, Folder 45
Tia Juana River Pumping Site, 1918
Physical Description: 10 photographs (b & w) and negatives
Scope and Content Note
Photos of pumping site and international boundary.
Box 2, Folder 46
Upper Otay , 1917-1922
Physical Description: 9 photographs (b & w) and negatives
Scope and Content Note
Photos of dam.
Box 2, Folder 47
City of San Diego City, Unknown
Physical Description: 2 negatives
Scope and Content Note
Photos of reservoir.
Box 2, Folder 48
Ocean Beach, San Diego, 1915
Physical Description: 10 negatives
Scope and Content Note
Photos of buildings and breakwater.
Box 2, Folder 49
San Diego Eastern Railway, 1901-1902
Physical Description: 21 photographs (b & w) and negatives
Scope and Content Note
Photos of landscape, people, and horse-drawn wagons.
Box 2, Folder 50
San Diego Fruit Co., 1902
Physical Description: 10 photographs (b & w) and negatives
Scope and Content Note
Photos of building, horse-drawn wagons and laborers harvesting crops.
Box 2, Folder 51
San Diego River Diverting Dam, 1917
Physical Description: 7 photographs (b & w) and negatives
Scope and Content Note
Photos of dam construction and people.
Box 2, Folder 52
San Diego River Flood 1921, December 28, 1921
Physical Description: 17 photographs (b & w) negatives
Scope and Content Note
Photos of flood damage to bridge.
Box 2, Folder 53
San Diego River Flood 1927, January 1, 1927
Physical Description: 4 photographs (b & w)
Scope and Content Note
Photos of river overflowing the dam and inundated floodplain.
Box 2, Folder 54
San Diego River Project, San Vicente Dam Site, 1931
Physical Description: 4 negatives
Scope and Content Note
Photos of dam site.
Box 2, Folder 55
San Diego Water Co. La Mesa Dam Reconstruction Fort Robinson Siphon, Mission Dam, Old Mission Vicinity, Cuyanaca Dam, 1902
Physical Description: 40 photographs (b & w)
Scope and Content Note
Oversized photos of dam and pipeline construction, people, and camp found in Box 8.
Box 2, Folder 56
Lakeside, San Diego, 1927-1928
Physical Description: 46 photographs (b & w)
Scope and Content Note
Photos of pipeline construction and river flood.
Box 3, Folder 57
Sweetwater Dam, 1900
Physical Description: 18 photographs (b & w)
Scope and Content Note
Sweetwater Water Co, Linwwod Wells Lower, Linwood Wells Upper, Sunnyside Wells, Chula Vista, Bonita Wells.
Box 3, Folder 58
Sweetwater Dam, 1927
Physical Description: 4 photographs (b & w)
Scope and Content Note
4 photographs from negatives exposed the day following the peak flood in Spring Valley, February 1927.
Box 3, Folder 59
Sweetwater Co., Barret, Morena, Lower Otay Dam, 1923
Physical Description: 4 photographs (b & w)
Scope and Content Note
Photos of dam and watershed.
Box 3, Folder 60
Sweetwater Dam, 1885-1900
Physical Description: 17 photographs (b &w)
Scope and Content Note
Oversized photos of dam construction found in Box 8.
Box 3, Folder 61
Sweetwater Dam (miscellaneous), 1895
Physical Description: 37 photographs (b & w) and negatives
Scope and Content Note
Oversized photos of dam construction and blueprints, includes Escondido dam and Old Mission Dam.
Box 3, Folder 62
Sweetwater Dam, 1901-1916
Physical Description: 11 negatives
Scope and Content Note
Photos of dam construction and people
Box 3, Folder 63
Sweetwater Dam 21 to 40, 1916
Physical Description: 20 negatives
Scope and Content Note
Includes list of photo description.
Box 3, Folder 64
Sweetwater Dam 41 to 60, 1916
Physical Description: 17 negatives
Scope and Content Note
Includes list of photo descriptions.
Box 3, Folder 65
Escondido Dam 57 to 60, 1916
Physical Description: 4 negatives
Scope and Content Note
Includes list of photo descriptions.
Box 3, Folder 66
Sweetwater Dam 61 to 80, 1916
Physical Description: 18 negatives
Scope and Content Note
Includes list of photo descriptions.
Box 3, Folder 67
Sweetwater Dam 81 to 100, 1916
Physical Description: 25 negatives
Scope and Content Note
Includes list of photo descriptions.
Box 3, Folder 68
Sweetwater Dam 101 to 120, 1916
Physical Description: 20 negatives
Scope and Content Note
Includes list of photo descriptions.
Box 3, Folder 69
Sweetwater Dam 121 to 140, 1916
Physical Description: 21 negatives
Scope and Content Note
Includes list of photo descriptions.
Box 3, Folder 70
Sweetwater Dam 141 to 160, 1916
Physical Description: 22 negatives
Scope and Content Note
Includes list of photo descriptions.
Box 4, Folder 71
Boneta Pipeline Break, 1915?
Physical Description: 5 negatives
Scope and Content Note
Photos of broken pipeline.
Box 4, Folder 72
Boneta Line Break, December 24, 1915
Physical Description: 11 negatives
Scope and Content Note
Photos of broken pipeline.
Box 4, Folder 73
Colorado River, Imperial Canal, 1902
Physical Description: 16 photographs (b & w) and negatives
Scope and Content Note
Photos of river intake.
Box 4, Folder 74
Dulzura Conduit, 1915
Physical Description: 8 negatives
Scope and Content Note
Photos of conduit construction.
Box 4, Folder 75
Dulzura Conduit, 1914
Physical Description: 15 negatives
Scope and Content Note
Photos on conduit construction.
Box 4, Folder 76
Dulzura Conduit, 1914
Physical Description: 7 photographs (b & w)
Scope and Content Note
Photos showing progress of work on conduit extension.
Box 4, Folder 77
Dulzura Conduit, Unknown
Physical Description: 22 photographs (b & w) and negatives
Scope and Content Note
Photos of construction and people in camp.
Box 4, Folder 78
Dulzura Conduit, 1910
Physical Description: 9 photographs (b & w)
Scope and Content Note
Oversized photos of concrete channel and flume structures found in Box 8.
Box 4, Folder 79
Flumes, pipelines, canal structures, Unknown
Physical Description: 51 color transparencies
Scope and Content Note
Glass colored photos of concrete channels, flumes, and pipelines found in Box 7.
Box 4, Folder 80
La Jolla Children's Bathing Pool, 1930
Physical Description: 12 photographs (b & w) and negatives
Scope and Content Note
Photos of tidal bathing pool for children.
Box 4, Folder 81
Scripps Bathing Pool for Children, 1930
Physical Description: 37 photographs (b & w) and negatives
Scope and Content Note
Photos of Ellen Browing Scripps Bathing Pool for children, includes 2 lists of photos and descriptions.
Box 4, Folder 82
McCloud River, 1912
Physical Description: 16 photographs (b & w)
Scope and Content Note
Oversized photos of rural landscape, forest and river found in Box 8.
Box 4, Folder 83
Mission Valley Pumping Plant, 1918
Physical Description: 2 photographs (b & w) and negatives
Scope and Content Note
Photos of road and valley.
Box 4, Folder 84
Morena Reservoir, Swenson Children, Unknown
Physical Description: 104 photographs (b & w)
Scope and Content Note
Photos of dam, reservoir, water sampling, people and houses, includes photos of Dulzura conduit, Harvey Dam, Upper and Lower
Otay Dam and children.
Box 4, Folder 85
Nigger Canyon, Temecula River, Unknown
Physical Description: 25 photographs (b & w) and negatives
Scope and Content Note
Photos of canyon and river.
Box 4, Folder 86
Oakdale ID, 1938
Physical Description: 2 photographs (b & w)
Scope and Content Note
Photos of crops and canal.
Box 4, Folder 87
Projects: Huntley, Shashane, North Platte, Sun River, Milk River, Blackfur, Lower Yellowslow, Shasta River, Trinity River,
1914-1918; 1955
Physical Description: 51 photographs (b & w)
Scope and Content Note
Photos of concrete structures in different projects.
Box 4, Folder 88
Pumping plant near Riverview Station, films of J. Johnson's, 1939-1940
Physical Description: 12 negatives
Scope and Content Note
Photos of pumping plants.
Box 4, Folder 89
River Wueste, Unknown
Physical Description: 38 negatives
Scope and Content Note
Photos of pipeline installation, river and housing.
Box 4, Folder 90
River Wueste, 1912
Physical Description: 5 glass negatives
Scope and Content Note
Photos of people and flow control structures.
Box 4, Folder 91
Upper Linwood, Bonita, Pumping Plant, 1900
Physical Description: 15 negatives
Scope and Content Note
(NONE)
Box 4, Folder 92
Yolo Bypass, Chapter XI- Building East Levee at Yolo Bypass, 1940
Physical Description: 1 photograph (b & w)
Scope and Content Note
Photo of soil movement.
Box 5, Folder 93
U.S. Reclamation Service Photos (8x10), Unknown
Physical Description: 12 photographs (b & w)
Scope and Content Note
Oversized photos of Colorado River: Yuma Bridge, Milk River, Lake McDonald, dams and people (good quality photos) found in
Box 8.
Box 5, Folder 94
U.S. Reclamation Service Projects, 1908-1930
Physical Description: 71 photographs (b & w)
Scope and Content Note
Photos of screens, weed cleaners, pumping stations, commission members, canals, postcards, projects, and native peoples.
Box 5, Folder 95
H.G. Featon's Ranch, 1917
Physical Description: 2 negatives
Scope and Content Note
Photos of families and people.
Box 5, Folder 96
Lew B. Harris Ranch, 1923
Physical Description: 1 negative
Scope and Content Note
Photos of families and people.
Box 5, Folder 97
R.H. Wilcomb & Family, 1918
Physical Description: 2 photographs (b & w) and negatives
Scope and Content Note
Photos of families and people.
Box 5, Folder 98
Vaudeville troupe at Lower Otay Dam, 1918
Physical Description: 4 photographs (b & w) and negatives
Scope and Content Note
Photos of families and people.
Box 5, Folder 99
W.A. Stebbins and Family, 1917
Physical Description: 2 photographs (b & w) and negatives
Scope and Content Note
Photos of families and people.
Box 5, Folder 100
W.M. Gates and Family, 1917
Physical Description: 2 photographs (b & w) and negatives
Scope and Content Note
Photos of families and people.
Box 5, Folder 101
W.M.I. Woodman and Family, 1918
Physical Description: 2 photographs (b & w) and negatives
Scope and Content Note
Photos of families and people.
Box 5, Folder 102
Aerial Photos of California Inlets, Unknown
Physical Description: 10 negatives
Scope and Content Note
Maps and aerial photos.
Box 5, Folder 103
Lower California, 1923
Physical Description: 15 photographs (b & w)
Scope and Content Note
Maps and aerial photos including a map of Baja California (1894-1918) by David Goldbaum and list with description of photos.
Box 5, Folder 104
Maps of California, 1922
Physical Description: 10 photographs (b & w) and negatives
Scope and Content Note
Maps and aerial photos.
Box 5, Folder 105
Miscellaneous, 1931-1947
Physical Description: 30 photographs (b & w)
Scope and Content Note
Newspaper articles, San Fernando Rancho Dam postcard, canal and construction photos.
Box 5, Folder 106
Miscellaneous (Palo Verde Dam, All American Silt, Canal Lining), Unknown
Physical Description: 11 photographs (b & w) and negatives
Scope and Content Note
Misc. photos of canal lining.
Box 5, Folder 107
Miscellaneous Weirs Savage, 1932-1939
Physical Description: 37 photographs (b & w)
Scope and Content Note
Misc. photos of canal structures at different projects, including weirs specifications and article.
Box 5, Folder 108
Miscellaneous, 1912?
Physical Description: 6 color transparencies
Scope and Content Note
Glass color pictures of U.S. Reclamation Service photos of Shoshone and Huntley projects, and map with projects location found
in Box 7.
Box 6, Folder 109
Thearle starv?, 1914
Physical Description: 48 negatives
Scope and Content Note
Photos of vegetation and slope.
Box 6, Folder 110
TN Wood Valley Views No. 7 A-K, Unknown
Physical Description: 14 negatives
Scope and Content Note
Photos of vegetation and slopes.
Box 6, Folder 111
Unidentified, Unknown
Physical Description: 10 photographs (b & w) and negatives
Scope and Content Note
Photos of canal construction, camp and people.
Box 6, Folder 112
Unidentified, Unknown
Physical Description: 4 negatives
Scope and Content Note
Photos of canal construction.
Box 6, Folder 113
Unidentified, Unknown
Physical Description: 68 negatives
Scope and Content Note
Photos of pipeline installation.
Box 6, Folder 114
Unidentified (pipeline), Unknown
Physical Description: 80 photographs (b & w) and negatives.
Scope and Content Note
Photos of pipeline installation.
Box 6, Folder 115
Unidentified portrait, Unknown
Physical Description: 3 photographs (b & w) and negatives.
Scope and Content Note
Photos of man.
Box 7, Folder 4
Calaveras and Tujunga Dams, Unknown
Physical Description: 7 photographs (b &w)
Scope and Content Note
Glass photos of dam and dam site found in Box 7.
Box 7, Folder 29
St. Francis Dam, Unknown
Physical Description: 7 photographs (b & w)
Scope and Content Note
Glass photos of dam and demolished concrete blocks found in Box 7
Box 7, Folder 79
Flumes, pipelines, canal structures, Unknown
Physical Description: 51 color transparencies
Scope and Content Note
Glass colored photos of concrete channels, flumes, and pipelines found in Box 7.
Box 7, Folder 108
Miscellaneous, 1912?
Physical Description: 6 color transparencies
Scope and Content Note
Glass color pictures of U.S. Reclamation Service photos of Shoshone and Huntley projects, and map with projects location found
in Box 7.
Box 8, Folder 15
Lower Otay Dam, 1910
Physical Description: 2 photographs (b & w)
Scope and Content Note
Oversize photos of lank found in Box 8.
Box 8, Folder 23
Morena Dam, 1897-1910
Physical Description: 17 photographs (b & w)
Scope and Content Note
Oversized photos of construction found in Box 8.
Box 8, Folder 28
El Prado Dam, 1943
Physical Description: 12 photographs (b & w)
Scope and Content Note
Oversized aerial oblique photos of dam found in Box 8.
Box 8, Folder 55
San Diego Water Co. La Mesa Dam Reconstruction Fort Robinson Siphon, Mission Dam, Old Mission Vicinity, Cuyanaca Dam, 1902
Physical Description: 40 photographs (b & w)
Scope and Content Note
Oversized photos of dam and pipeline construction, people, and camp found in Box 8.
Box 8, Folder 60
Sweetwater Dam, 1885-1886-1900
Physical Description: 17 photographs (b &w)
Scope and Content Note
Oversized photos of dam construction found in Box 8.
Box 8, Folder 61
Sweetwater Dam (miscellaneous), 1895
Physical Description: 37 photographs (b & w) and negatives
Scope and Content Note
Oversized photos of dam construction and blueprints, includes Escondido dam and Old Mission Dam.
Box 8, Folder 78
Dulzura Conduit, 1910
Physical Description: 9 photographs (b & w)
Scope and Content Note
Oversized photos of concrete channel and flume structures found in Box 8.
Box 8, Folder 82
McCloud River, 1912
Physical Description: 16 photographs (b & w)
Scope and Content Note
Oversized photos of rural landscape, forest and river found in Box 8.
Box 8, Folder 93
U.S. Reclamation Service Photos (8x10), Unknown
Physical Description: 12 photographs (b & w)
Scope and Content Note
Oversized photos of Colorado River: Yuma Bridge, Milk River, Lake McDonald, dams and people (good quality photos) found in
Box 8.