Series 2 - Box 9

Digital File see p135 --> archive --> OCR --> Box 6 --> Photographs --> 002.

General map and profile showing progress on the Hetch Hetchy Aqueduct Coast Range Tunnel (possible torn from a book).

Digital File see p135 --> archive --> OCR --> Box 6 --> Photographs --> 003. Photocopied newspaper article about Elizabeth O'Shaughnessy having won a prize for her art, 23 Apr 1934.

Digital File see p135 --> archive --> OCR --> Box 6 --> Photographs --> 004. Photograph of O'Shaughnessy standing on top of the Hondo Dam in Los Angeles.

Digital File see p135 --> archive --> OCR --> Box 6 --> Photographs --> 005. Photograph of two men on a dam under construction, no date, location not specified.

Digital File see p135 --> archive --> OCR --> Box 6 --> Photographs --> 006. Photograph of the Pine Creek diverting dam. (1909).

Digital File see p135 --> archive --> OCR --> Box 6 --> Photographs --> 007. Photograph of an unspecified structure.

Digital File see p135 --> archive --> OCR --> Box 6 --> Photographs --> 008. Photograph of a man standing next to a large water valve, with a supplier stamp on the back.

Digital File see p135 --> archive --> OCR --> Box 6 --> Photographs --> 009. Photograph of a man standing next to a small water dam. Possibly O'Shaughnessy. Location and date not specified.

Digital File see p135 --> archive --> OCR --> Box 6 --> Photographs --> 010. Larger photograph of the water valve, with specifications written on the back - a 70 inch valve, with details on Horse Power. (1908).

Digital File see p135 --> archive --> OCR --> Box 6 --> Photographs --> 011-016. Photographs taken most likely in Hawaii, featuring people navigating the river, and the local topography.

Digital File see p135 --> archive --> OCR --> Box 6 --> Photographs --> 017. Mounted photograph of a group of boys and young men (cadets possibly) in uniform, and posing with bayonets. It's possible one of them is Francis O'Shaughnessy, though have not recognised him in the group.

Digital File see p135 --> archive --> OCR --> Box 6 --> Photographs --> 018-020. Three mounted photographs of O'Shaughnessy at various ages. All are full length portraits taken in the outdoors.

Digital File see p135 --> archive --> OCR --> Box 6 --> Photographs --> 021-027, and 029, 034, 035. . O'Shaughnessy's personalised Christmas cards from 1918-1919, 1922, 1923, and 1929-1931. All are black and feature photographs of the work he has been involved in, and images of San Francisco.

Digital File see p135 --> archive --> OCR --> Box 6 --> Photographs --> 028. Copied portrait photograph of O'Shaughnessy in later years, a copy is in Box 5.

Digital File see p135 --> archive --> OCR --> Box 6 --> Photographs --> 030-031. Two mounted photographs of the O'Shaughnessy daughters (copies of which are in box 6). One of M M and his daughter Elizabeth in the 1930's, and one unidentified, but possibly of Helen.

Digital File see p135 --> archive --> OCR --> Box 6 --> Photographs --> 033. Copy of a photograph described in box 6, of a group of men (all identified except for 1) working in Mill Valley. A note on the back of this copy describes that O'Shaughnessy is engaged in directing the survey for the town of Mill Valley.

Digital File see p135 --> archive --> OCR --> Box 6 --> Photographs --> 037. Reprinted photograph of the destruction on the streets of San Francisco following the fire in 1906.

Digital File see p135 --> archive --> OCR --> Box 6 --> Photographs --> 038. Large photograph of a group of men, including a cook, standing on the deck of a house (possibly Lower Otay Dam project). O'Shaughnessy is at the centre as a young man. Slightly damaged.

Several copies of a newspaper article in which O'Shaughnessy is quoted as landing high praise on Mulholland's dam system for the Los Angeles water provision.

The material is accessible to all bone fide researchers, and subject to the conditions of access governing the consultation of archival material at the James Hardiman Library.
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