Blueprint plan showing the rear elevation of the Manufactures and Liberal Arts Building. The Architect is Arthur Page Brown. Drawn at a scale of 1/8 inch to 1 foot.
Blueprint plan showing the north elevation of the Manufactures and Liberal Arts Building. The Architect is Arthur Page Brown. Drawn at a scale of 1/8 inch to 1 foot.
Blueprint plan of the foundation of the Mechanical Arts Building. The Architect is Edward Swain. Drawn at a scale of 8 feet to 1 inch.
Letter from James D Phelan to M M O'Shaughnessy seeking employment on behalf of an acquaintance for work in the Midwinter Fair.
Letter from [Charles] Taylor, the Secretary to the Director General of the California Midwinter International Exposition to M M O'Shaughnessy. Relating to 3 inch pipe.
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.
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.