"Historical Sketch of the Los Angeles Aqueduct with Map Profile and Illustrations",

This book written by Allen Kelly celebrates the completion of the Los Angeles Aqueduct, an engineering marvel that brought water from the Owens River to Los Angeles. In addition to the text, it provides a detailed photographic history of the construction of the aqueduct that includes many photographs of the workers (including the commissary staff!). Features both a profile and strip map entitled Map of the Los Angeles Aqueduct and Adjacent Territory October 1908 (5.5 x 16.0"), highlighting the path of the aqueduct in red overprinting from above Owens Lake to the San Fernando Valley. 37 pages with 99 unpaginated photographic illustrations by Bledsoe. Features an introductory page indicating that this example was prepared for the Sixteenth Annual Convention of the League of California Municipalities, compliments of Neptune Meter Company. Compiled and produced by the Times-Mirror Printing & Binding House. Oblong octavo, stiff pictorial wrappers.

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Condition: B+

The folding map is near fine with a few tiny spots. Text and photographic plates are mostly clean and bright with some light foxing along the sheet edges. The front cover has split along the joint and has been reattached along the hinge with archival tape. Both covers are lightly soiled and worn.