Water Resource Collections and Archives

The Walter Leroy Huber Collection contains over 4,000 photographs. Most of the images were taken by Huber himself and document the many water projects he was involved in throughout California and the West.

The photographs are divided into two separate collections. Approximately 2,500 photographs are incorporated into the main Huber collection (call number HUBER). These photos are grouped together by region or topic (e.g., hydraulic structures in Inyo and Mono Counties, or the St. Francis Dam failure) and have collection-level records on Melvyl. The rest of the photographs are organized in a separate collection (call number MS 76/14) and are filed by Huber's own numbers.

WRCA has an indexed item-level finding guide to this collection available in the library. The collection is also searchable via the Online Archive of California.

Title: Dam site at Saddlebag Lake
Date: September 1917
Source: Walter L. Huber
Collection: HUBER
Call no.: Huber 205:2701

Title: n/a
Date: n.d.
Source: Walter L. Huber
Collection: HUBER
Call no.: Huber 205

Title: Gem Lake Dam
Date: September 14, 1932
Source: Walter L. Huber
Collection: HUBER
Call no.: Huber 205:8679

Title: Mt. Dana from Saddlebag Lake Road
Date: September 5, 1939
Source: Walter L. Huber
Collection: HUBER
Call no.: Huber 205:9312

Title: Tioga Road, below Rhinedollar Dam
Date: September 5,1939
Source: Walter L. Huber
Collection: HUBER
Call no.: Huber 205:9314

Title: Gem Lake Dam
Date: n.d.
Source: Walter L. Huber
Collection: HUBER
Call no.: Huber 205:6845

Title: Rush Creek
Date: September 1917
Source: Walter L. Huber
Collection: HUBER
Call no.: Huber 205:2695