"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 very good with some light dampstaining along the top sheet edges and some small edge chips confined to the top margins of approximately the first 10 sheets. Wrappers are worn with a chip in the front wrapper that has been repaired with archival tape on verso.