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JH/PHO/7/1/15 - [USA 1958 : Tucson and Phoenix, Arizona; Los Angeles]

Reference code
JH/PHO/7/1/15
Level of description
Sub file
Title
[USA 1958 : Tucson and Phoenix, Arizona; Los Angeles]
Date/s
1958
Quantity & Format
37 items Slides, photographic (colour)
Personal name
Sherrill, Chuck
Subject
Arizona -- Photographs
Theodore Roosevelt Dam (Arizona) -- Aerial photographs
Los Angeles -- Description
Arizona -- Description and travel
Yosemite National Park -- Photographs
Agriculture -- United States -- Arizona -- Photographs
Scope and content
Slides were taken on 15-22/5/58 and show the airfield at El Paso, New Mexico; the flight to Tucson; Tucson airfield and the flight on to Phoenix, Arizona; aerial views of the vast desert lands [reclaimed by agriculture through surface irrigation] in Arizona; labourers working the land [of Mr Chuck Sherrill]; aerial views of the Theodore Roosevelt Dam [which irrigated Sherrill's land]; Phoenix airport and city; an aerial view of the flight to Los Angeles; Los Angeles streets; and Yosemite National Park.

This spool was taken simultaneously with [JH/PHO/7/1/14].
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