Papers, 1908-1972.

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Papers, 1908-1972.

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Collection consists of correspondence, speeches, papers, publications, and personal material of Joseph Jensen, mining engineer and chairman of Los Angeles Metropolitan Water District, relating to petroleum development in LA and water resources in California. Includes correspondence with Mormon and political leaders in Utah, papers relating to the Canoga Citrus Growers Association, LA Chamber of Commerce, and correspondence with LA mayors from Fletcher Bowron to Sam Yorty.

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University of California, Los Angeles

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University of California, Los Angeles

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Metropolitan Water District of Southern California (Calif.)

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Canoga Citrus Growers Association.

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Jensen, Joseph, 1886-1974.

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Jensen was born in 1886 in Salt Lake City, UT; received mining engineering degrees from the Univ. of Utah, the Royal School of Mines, Freiberg (Germany), and Columbia Univ.; worked at Tidewater Oil Co. and predecessors as a petroleum engineer and geologist, 1917-55; appointed to Water and Power Committee of the Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce in 1927; personally participated in the discovery and development of several oil fields in LA and wrote articles on those fields and methods used by the in...