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Two letters from F H [Tinsdell] (Chief, Department of Publicity and Promotion), to M M O'Shaughnessy. The first advises of an upcoming banquet, and the second proposes a meal celebration between the Chiefs of Departments of the California Midwinter International Exposition.

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.

Digital File see p135 --> archive --> OCR --> Box 3 --> Correspondence --> p135_CO_068. Letter to O'Shaughnessy from J L Allison (27 Jan 1897). Outlining the projects he has worked on, mostly in Canada, and providing names of referees.

Digital File see p135 --> archive --> OCR --> Box 3 --> Correspondence --> p135_CO_026. Letter to O'Shaughnessy from [H E Huntington] of the Pacific Improvement Company (28 Jan 1897). Declining his request for free transportation on their line.

Digital File see p135 --> archive --> OCR --> Box 3 --> Correspondence --> p135_CO_059. Letter to O'Shaughnessy from J Shepard Thomas (15 Feb 1897). Enquiring after work.

Digital File see p135 --> archive --> OCR --> Box 3 --> Correspondence --> p135_CO_065. Letter to O'Shaughnessy from [ ], Editor of the Army and Naval Magazine. (20 Feb 1897) offering shares in the company.

Digital File see p135 --> archive --> OCR --> Box 3 --> Correspondence --> p135_CO_057. Letter to O'Shaughnessy from F A Peckham, Advertising Representative for Engineering News. (17 Mar 1897). Outlining details of their rates for advertising in Engineering News Directory of Engineers.

Digital File see p135 --> archive --> OCR --> Box 3 --> Correspondence --> p135_CO_082. Letter to O'Shaughnessy from [Frank M Channing], writing from San Francisco. (11 May 1897). Enquiring about work.

Digital File see p135 --> archive --> OCR --> Box 3 --> Correspondence --> p135_CO_042. Invitation to O'Shaughnessy to join the Grass Valley Sportman's Club at their Annual Dove Hunt and Camp Stew. (2 Jul 1897).

UNDIGITISED. Handwritten letter to O'Shaughnessy from J [Havlur]. (10 Jul 1897). Regarding a debt.

Digital File see p135 --> archive --> OCR --> Box 3 --> Correspondence --> p135_CO_007). Letter to O'Shaughnessy from the secretary of Joseph Tobin (Office of the Hibernia Savings and Loan Society). 14 Jul 1897. Requests a meeting between O'Shaughnessy, Tobin, and a Mr Buckley.

Digital File see p135 --> archive --> OCR --> Box 3 --> Correspondence --> p135_CO_083. Letter to O'Shaughnessy from [Lorris L James], Agent at the San Rafael Gas and Electric Light Co. (11 Oct 1897). Requests a meeting on the adjustment of O'Shaughnessy's electric light rate.

Digital File see p135 --> archive --> OCR --> Box 3 --> Correspondence --> p135_CO_002. (26 Oct 1897). Letter to O'Shaughnessy from Carles J Havens (Havens & Toepke Architects), asking him to call to the office.

UNDIGITISED. Letter to O'Shaughnessy from John Spreckel of the San Francisco Call. Offering advertising in their forthcoming edition. (10 Nov 1897).

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Digital File see p135 --> archive --> OCR --> Box 3 --> Correspondence --> p135_CO_016. Note to O'Shaughnessy from Charles F Hanlon (3 Dec 1897), seeking a meeting with Mr Herald, in relation to springs at Napa. Reference "Feige vs Fisher" at top of the page.

Digital File see p135 --> archive --> OCR --> Box 3 --> Correspondence --> p135_CO_003. Pencil sketch, undated, and untitled. Draws out the measurements of properties or lots, Ellis, [Scott], Eddy are names written on the map.

Digital File see p135 --> archive --> OCR --> Box 3 --> Correspondence --> p135_CO_039. Letter to O'Shaughnessy from [Hutchinson], undated save for (Wednesday). Gives love and sympathy to Mrs Shaughnessy.

Digital File see p135 --> archive --> OCR --> Box 3 --> Correspondence --> p135_CO_032. Note to Surveyors from F A and M D Hyde, Attorneys in Land Cases, calling their attention to a circular (on back), they issue Land Scrip and Warrants for Surveyed and Unsurveyed Land. Undated.

Digital File see p135 --> archive --> OCR --> Box 3 --> Correspondence --> p135_CO_075. Circular from the Consolidated Agency Co, enclosing prices for magazines.

Digital File see p135 --> archive --> OCR --> Box 3 --> Correspondence --> p135_CO_085. Duplicate shipping receipt, undated.

Digital File see p135 --> archive --> OCR --> Box 3 --> Correspondence --> p135_CO_086. Note in faint pencil with heading "Adolph Sutro to City and County of San Francisco", outlines co-ordinates near Trocadero Creek in San Francisco, and a sketch map is enclosed with O'Shaughnessy's handwriting.

Digital File see p135 --> archive --> OCR --> Box 3 --> Correspondence --> p135_CO_088. Undated tracing, outlining broad measurements of a building on Geary Street, with Powell Street to the East.

Thos Burrows Digital File see p135 --> archive --> OCR --> Box 3 --> Correspondence --> p135_CO_097. Typed letter from [Burrows] to O'Shaughnessy, from the Dunham, Carrigan and Hayden Co. 15 Apr 1897. Advising that materials ordered have been shipped. Digital File see p135 --> archive --> OCR --> Box 3 --> Correspondence --> p135_CO_099. Small fragment containing a handwritten note to O'Shaughnessy from [Burrows], undated. Requesting that Mr Britt consults with Jack urgently. (no context).

Two copies of a black and white photograph of M M O'Shaughnessy with another man, unidentified. Both are smiling. O'Shaughnessy is carrying a newspaper.

Black and white photograph of M M O'Shaughnessy (middle) and two unidentified men on site.

Black and white photograph of a3 men talking in the San Mateo Recreation Park at La Honda.

Black and white photograph of a man holding a glass bottle and smiling.

M M O'Shaughnessy's personalised Christmas card for 1919 featuring a photograph from the Hetch Hetchy valley.

M M O'Shaughnessy's personalised Christmas card for 1922 featuring an image of the street car system.