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San Marino, CA 91108
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Black-and-white photograph showing a landscape view of a stream of water running between hills above the San Jacinto Dam site in Southern California. The image (no. 121) formed part of a series of mammoth plate photographs created by photographer Herve Friend for the Bear Valley Irrigation Company.
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An album with 48 commercial views by an unknown photographer of Yosemite National Park, including El Capitan, Glacier Point, and several waterfalls. Buildings shown include Black's Hotel, Casa Nevada, Cosmopolitan Bath House, Rock Cottage, and the Sunday School Chapel.
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A collection of 12 platinum prints of Yosemite Valley, approximately 1904-1906, by California photographer William E. Dassonville. The prints are mounted on brown paper with handwritten titles in black ink on the back of the mount. Each photograph is signed by the photographer on the image. The views include Half Dome, the Three Brothers, Cathedral Rock, Mirror Lake, and waterfalls.
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Black-and-white photograph showing a landscape view of the Alessandro Tract in the Moreno Valley of Southern California with a distributing reservoir in the foreground and the valley and mountains behind. The image (no. 126) formed part of a series of mammoth plate photographs created by photographer Herve Friend for the Bear Valley Irrigation Company.
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1 photograph album containing 13 black-and-white photographs of landscapes in Yosemite Valley, California, taken by photographer Carleton Watkins in the 1870s. The images focus on the natural scenery including mountains, waterfalls, and trees. Each photograph is labeled with a typed caption pasted to the album page.
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Black-and-white photograph of the forest-lined Bear Valley Reservoir in the San Bernardino Mountains of Southern California. The image (no. 135) forms part of a series of mammoth plate photographs created by photographer Herve Friend for the Bear Valley Irrigation Company.
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