File 1 - Photograph Album

1 album (389 photographs)

Photograph album documenting various irrigation projects that M M O'Shaughnessy was involved with or interested in. The first is a dam project on the Otay Lake, and the photographs show the laying of pipelines, construction of the dam, the construction of Lower Otay House, construction workers, and the industrialist Captain Charles T Hinde on site.

The album also includes photographs from earlier that decade taken during the Koolau Ditch project in Maui, Hawaii, with a memorial stone to O'Shaughnessy, the Engineer, 1904. Ed. Rogers and Jorgen Jorgensen (who was known as 'Little Boss' on site) are photographed with him.

There are photographs of bridges and canal structures from a trip to China, including the entrance to the city of Kading, and Shanghai. Photographs of railway lines and irrigation projects in Mexico also demonstrate O'Shaughnessy's interest in learning from irrigation projects elsewhere.

Several photographs in the album document his project at the Dulzura Conduit, San Diego. These images also include several candid photographs of the construction workers at the Cottonwood camp.

Photograph of the Mill Valley High School, and some images of the O'Shaughnessy family dated 1908-1909.

Several photographs of the Morena Reservoir documenting the dam project O'Shaughnessy led from 1909-1910.

The final few pages of the album show the construction of the Los Angeles aqueduct, with Chief Engineer William Mulholland and his guests photographed in a group.

All of the photographs in the album have been captioned by O'Shaughnessy. They are in no discernable order with several projects and subjects intermixed.

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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12/04/2017
17/07/2025