Real estate developer John H. Blair and hydrolic engineer William Mulholland at outdoor luncheon, Los Angeles, 1924

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Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds., Handwritten at edge of negative: John H. Blair & William H. Mulholland, Text from nitrate negative sleeve: Blair, John H. with Wm. H. Mulholland, John H. Blair, in jacket and tie, and William Mulholland, in suit and cravat, both standing, holding plates with sandwiches, outdoors with hills and brushy area in background, table with tablecloth, bag, and hat in foreground, Probably related to the article “Meet to View Highway Work, Work Progressing Rapidly on Mulholland Drive, Five Miles of Grading Done in Sixty Days, Prominent Business Men Take Tour of Inspection.” Los Angeles Times, 30 Mar. 1924: D5. The article states: … The luncheon, at which Chief Engineer William Mulholland presided, was given at construction camp No. 1, of the Mulholland High-Way, at a point where the highway traverses the hills above the Hollywood County Club. … Among the prominent men who attended the luncheon and inspection were: … J.H. Blair …