NOTES ON LOS ANGELES WATER SUPPLY
Los Angeles: Bureau of Water Works and Supply, 1938. First Edition. Wraps. Quarto: [19], [1, blank] pp. with photographs, illustrations, and maps. Bound with staples in the original printed paper wrappers. The central signature has separated from the staples and is laid in place. Some general toning along the extremities. Scarce, OCLC locates only three holdings: LAPL, SMU, and UCLA.
The signature of William W. Hurlbut, an engineer of the Bureau of Water Works and Supply (now the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power), who worked under William Mulholland, with his signature along the top edge of the front panel.
Brief but insightful record of the water works system in Los Angeles, from the construction of William G. Dryden's water wheel in 1861 to the projects supervised by William Mulholland. Includes an introduction by Laurance E. Goit, which notes, "Practically every date mentioned has been obtained from a contemporary source. Many years of old original City Council minutes have been read, literally thousands of pages of old payroll books, pipe record books, and sketch maps have been turned in order to glean clues to the sequence and date of various construction projects."
"At the time of his retirement in 1938, Brooks had been with the city’s water system for fty- ve years. Associates said that Tom Brooks never took a vacation in his life, and once, as he and Mulholland watched some laborers work on a ditch, Brooks remarked that the men were growing old, to which Mulholland replied, “Yes. They got old working for you.” One of the few who knew Mulholland well in his early years with the water company, Brooks later remembered that when they rst met, 'Bill Mulholland’s library consisted chie y of Fanning’s Treatise on Hydraulics, Trautwine’s Engineer’s Pocket Book, Kent’s Mechanical Engineer’s Pocket Book, a Geometry, a Trigonometry, and Shakespeare’s Works.'" (Catherine Mulholland, William Mulholland and the Rise of Los Angeles). Item #78464
Price: $100.00