"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. Compiled and produced by the Times-Mirror Printing & Binding House. Oblong octavo, stiff pictorial wrappers.

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Condition: B+

Contents are clean, bright and near fine. Wrappers have a number of small edge chips and tears at top and bottom and some minor dampstaining at top.