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F. E. Brown photograph collection of Bear Valley Dam
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F. E. Brown photograph collection of Bear Valley Dam
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A collection of 46 photographs and a few pieces of ephemera related to the building of Bear Valley Dam, 1884, and surveys of the Whitewater River, San Bernardino County, California, 1890s. The photographs belonged to F. E. (Frank Elwood) Brown, who was the chief engineer of the dam, which was built to provide irrigation to citrus growers in San Bernardino County. It is unclear who took the photographs, which are prints of various sizes, many with handwritten identifications. The building of the dam created Big Bear Lake, and images show the valley before and after the lake's creation. Other images depict: the granite dam being built; a long flume crossing a creek; engineers at camp; and one image of Brown and fellow Redlands founder Edward G. Judson, approximately 1886. There are also several survey photographs of Whitewater River in San Bernardino County, and a few cabinet card photographs by early regional photographers Rudolph J. Philippi, Charles T. Collier, and D. Ford of Redlands. Ephemera includes a printed map of the Lake View Tract, Riverside County, California, bearing the letterhead of the Sierra Vista Orange Land Company, F. E. Brown, President. Additionally, there are two newspaper clippings from 1897 about Brown, and a fold-out case with portrait photographs of Brown and his wife, Jessie Fremont Smith.
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Power Producers - Not SCE - Bear Valley Dam Big Bear Dam
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Power Producers - Not SCE - Bear Valley Dam [Big Bear Dam - San Bernardino - Entrados of one arch with wood forms in place. Possibly during construction of original multiple-arch dam.]
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Power Producers - Not SCE - Bear Valley Dam Top of Big Bear Dam
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Power Producers - Not SCE - Bear Valley Dam Top of Big Bear Dam - San Bernardino - showing sluice gate control.
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O'Shaughnessy Dam construction photographs and dedication program
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A collection of 160 photographs (69 prints in an album and 91 loose prints) and ephemera related to the building of the O'Shaughnessy Dam, which formed the Hetch Hetchy Reservoir in Yosemite National Park. The photographs are black-and-white snapshots that appear to have been taken by a worker on the dam, which was completed in 1923. The album contains images of the dam being constructed, showing equipment, a railroad, scaffolding and cranes, concrete, and workers. The loose photographs depict the worker and family members, mountain cabins, fish caught in rivers, scenery in Yosemite Valley, and additional views of the dam. Also included are clippings about the Hetch Hetchy project and the program for the "Dedication of O'Shaughnessy Dam, Hetch Hetchy Project, built by the city and county of San Francisco, July 7th, 1923."
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O'Shaughnessy Dam construction photographs and dedication program
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A collection of 160 photographs (69 prints in an album and 91 loose prints) and ephemera related to the building of O'Shaughnessy Dam, which formed the Hetch Hetchy Reservoir in Yosemite National Park. The photographs are black-and-white snapshots that appear to have been taken by a worker on the dam, which was completed in 1923. The album contains images of the dam being constructed, showing equipment, a railroad, scaffolding and cranes, concrete, and workers. The loose photographs depict the unidentified worker and family members, the workers' cabins, fish caught in rivers, scenery in Yosemite Valley, and additional views of the dam. Also included are clippings from 1934 about the Hetch Hetchy project and the program for the "Dedication of O'Shaughnessy Dam, Hetch Hetchy Project, built by the city and county of San Francisco, July 7th, 1923."
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Bear Valley Dam
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The Lukens Collection consists of 213 glass plate negatives and 242 film negatives created by Theodore Lukens, 1882-1903 and undated, that depict scenes in and around Los Angeles County, central California, and the Southwest.
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