Southwest to the Colorado River from a point west of the mouth of the Grand Wash, before Hoover Dam. This is a loose photo at the beginning of the photo album.
31 x 40 cm. "8-1-45. Ness." and "116951" in lower right corner. Shows reclamation projects in operation, under construction, authorized and under study in Arizona, and parts of New Mexico, Utah, Nevada, and California. "Department of the Interior, Bureau of Reclamation" in upper left corner. Original Publisher: Dept. of the Interior, Bureau of Reclamation.
'Compiled, drawn, and engraved under the supervision of J.H. Colton and A.J. Johnson.' Relief shown by hachures and spot heights. Scale [ca. 1:3,041,280]. 1 in. to approx. 48 miles (W 124°--W 103°/N 42°--N 31°). Hand colored Prime meridians: Greenwich and Washington Plates 54 & 55 removed from Johnson's New illustrated family atlas of the world, with descriptions geographical, statistical and historical ... New York, 1862 Title page of atlas.