Hetch Hetchy: It's Origin and History
San Francisco: Recorder Printing & Publishing Co., 1934. first Edition, Limited to 1000 copies. 4to. [134]pp. Color frontispiece; illustrations; single-page map. Dark green cloth with white lettering in publisher's tan paper dustjacket with lettering to spine. Lacking dustjacket. Light general wear; else a fine copy. Item #22592
O’Shaughnessy in his capacity as San Francisco City Engineer constructed the Hetch Hetchy water system to supply electricity and water to the San Francisco Bay Area. Here he recites the history of that endeavor including the surrounding controversy in obtaining rights on the project. “I never handled any proposition where the engineering problems were so simple and the political ones so complex.”.
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