Lawrence Pratt collection concerning Arizona v. California and the Colorado River
Scope and Contents
The collection consists of printed exhibits, engineering reports, witness testimony, and speeches relating to the court case, Arizona v. California, which concerned water rights to the Colorado River and its tributaries and which also involved a boundary dispute between the Fort Mojave Indian Reservation and the Colorado River Indian Reservation. These materials were seemingly collected by Lawrence Pratt in his position as Senior Hydraulic Engineer at the Colorado River Board of California, and shed particular light on California's side of the court case.
Dates
- 1948-1960
Conditions Governing Access
The materials are open for research.
Conditions Governing Use
The Lawrence Pratt Collection Concerning Arizona v. California and the Colorado River is the physical property of the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University. Literary rights, including copyright, belong to the authors or their legal heirs and assigns. For further information, consult the appropriate curator.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Purchased from Marc Selvaggio, Bookseller on the Arthur Corbitt Hoskins Memorial Fund, 2008.
Arrangement
Organized into two series: I. California Exhibits, 1956-1958. II. Other Records, 1948-1960.
Extent
2 Linear Feet (2 boxes)
Language of Materials
English
Catalog Record
A record for this collection is available in Orbis, the Yale University Library catalog
Persistent URL
https://hdl.handle.net/10079/fa/beinecke.prattl
Abstract
The collection consists of printed exhibits, engineering reports, witness testimony, and speeches relating to the court case, Arizona v. California, which concerned water rights to the Colorado River and its tributaries and which also involved a boundary dispute between the Fort Mojave Indian Reservation and the Colorado River Indian Reservation. These materials were seemingly collected by Lawrence Pratt in his position as Senior Hydraulic Engineer at the Colorado River Board of California, and shed particular light on California's side of the court case.
Lawrence Pratt
Lawrence Pratt was a civil engineer based in Los Angeles, and also served as Senior Hydraulic Engineer with the Colorado River Board of California from 1949 to at least 1958 and possibly later. In 1958, he testified as an expert witness for the California defendants in the Fort Mojave Indian Reservation and Colorado River Indian Reservation boundary dispute.
Custodial History
From the collection of an unidentified, retired engineer in San Diego.
Processing Information
Collections are processed to a variety of levels, depending on the work necessary to make them usable, their perceived research value, the availability of staff, and competing priorities. The library attempts to provide a basic level of preservation and access for all collections as they are acquired, and does more extensive processing of higher priority collections as time and resources permit.
This collection received a medium level of processing in 2009. Processing included removing material from original three-ring binders and rehousing it in acid-free folders and boxes. Information included in the Description of Papers note and Collection Contents section is drawn from information supplied with the collection and from an initial survey of the contents. Folder titles were supplied by staff during processing.
- Arizona -- Trials, litigation, etc.
- California -- Trials, litigation, etc.
- Colorado River (Colo.-Mexico) -- Water rights
- Colorado River Board of California
- Colorado River Indian Reservation (Ariz. and Calif.)
- Fort Mojave Indian Reservation
- Indians of North America -- Water rights
- Water rights -- Arizona
- Water rights -- California
- Water rights -- Southwest, New
- Water rights -- Southwestern States
- Water-supply -- Arizona
- Water-supply -- California
- Water-supply -- Southwest, New
- Water-supply -- Southwestern States
- Title
- Guide to the Lawrence Pratt Collection Concerning Arizona v. California and the Colorado River
- Author
- by Jennifer Meehan
- Date
- 2009
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description note
- Finding aid written in English.
Part of the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library Repository
Location
121 Wall Street
New Haven, CT 06511
Opening Hours
Access Information
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