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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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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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Southern California Regional Planning Collection, (bulk 1920-1989)
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The Southern California Regional Planning Collection was donated by the Los Angeles County Regional Planning Department, George Marr, Edward Holden, Glen Blossom, Simon Eisner, and Glenda Hamilton to the Huntington Library in 1997. The Southern California Regional Planning Collection is organized into two series: 1) Published Planning Reports Series (organized by individual item numbers) 2) Internal Documents Series (organized by box and folder numbers).The Published Planning Reports Series contains 1,913 individual items that were generated by the Los Angeles County Regional Planning Commission, Los Angeles County Department of Regional Planning, and other planning agencies and organizations in Southern California. Type of reports include annual reports, area study, comprehensive planning reports, census, conference papers, general plans, guides to zoning and subdivision, planning proposals, traffic and environmental surveys, zoning ordinance, etc. The date range of this series is 1909 to 2003.The Internal Documents Series contains approximately 913 items in 14 Hollinger boxes. Similar to the Published Planning Reports Series, the majority of the documents were generated by the Los Angeles County Regional Planning Commission and Department of Regional Planning, followed by the Los Angeles Department of City Planning. Type of documents include census reports, conference papers, maps, memorandums, minutes, photos, plans, reports, speeches, summaries, etc. The date range is 1924 to 2000.
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Photographs of Western U.S. Army Forts
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Views of frontier United States Army forts in Wyoming and Nebraska made by Pvt. Charles Howard, 1876-1877, and two views of Fort Wingate, New Mexico, ca. 1870s by an unidentified photographer. The photographs are mostly broad views of the military posts and their surrounding landscapes, showing cavalry, barracks and other buildings. The forts illustrated are Camp Canby, Camp Sheridan and Camp Robinson in Nebraska; Fort Fetterman, Fort Laramie and Fort McKinney in Wyoming Territory; and Fort Wingate in New Mexico. Besides views of the forts, there is one view of the town of Cheyenne; the Red Cloud Indian Agency, Nebraska; and a group portrait of soldiers and their families at Fort Wingate.
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Solid dam - Western extension - Excavation
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The Aswan Dam Photographs collection contains 28 albums containing more than 1750 black-and-white photographs (most approximately 8 x 10 in. format), documenting the construction of the first Aswan Dam and Asyut Barrage from 1899 to 1902, the first dam heightening from 1907 to 1912, the Isna Barrage from 1907 to 1909, and the second heightening from 1930 to 1933. The images chiefly chronicle progress at the construction sites and depict laborers, masonry work, excavating, the transportation of materials and equipment, and the building of the locks, buttresses, gates, canals, and bridges, with many views of the Nile River. In addition there are images of repairs to the temple at Philae (in Albums 1, 3b, 4, and 12), and some photographs of ceremonies including the H.R.H. The Duke of Connaught laying the foundation stone on February 29, 1908 (Album 10, pages 8-9), and the laying of the final stone with Abbas II Hilmi, the Khedive of Egypt, on February 9, 1909 (Album 5, page 24).The collection consists of both nondescript albums with affixed photographs accompanied by typed or handwritten captions, as well as more formal presentation albums, which include inscriptions of W. L. Lowe Brown, resident engineer at the Asyut Barrage (Album 1); John Aird, whose company constructed the dam (Albums 2, 6, and 8) Murdoch MacDonald, chief engineer beginning in 1902 (Album 3); While most of the albums are limited to photographs and captions, Album 1 and 2 have an eight-page printed preface by William E. Garstin and Albums 5 and 6 have two introductory pages of printed explanatory notes by Murdoch MacDonald. Photographers engaged in documenting the construction and heightening projects were D.S. George (construction of the Aswan Dam and first heightening), F. Fiorillo (first heightening), A. Gianny (viewing of Aswan Dam), A. Marques (first heightening), and other unidentified photographers. Within the materials, there are variant spellings of Aswan including Assuan and Asswan.
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Aswan Dam. Excavation at Western Channel
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The Aswan Dam Photographs collection contains 28 albums containing more than 1750 black-and-white photographs (most approximately 8 x 10 in. format), documenting the construction of the first Aswan Dam and Asyut Barrage from 1899 to 1902, the first dam heightening from 1907 to 1912, the Isna Barrage from 1907 to 1909, and the second heightening from 1930 to 1933. The images chiefly chronicle progress at the construction sites and depict laborers, masonry work, excavating, the transportation of materials and equipment, and the building of the locks, buttresses, gates, canals, and bridges, with many views of the Nile River. In addition there are images of repairs to the temple at Philae (in Albums 1, 3b, 4, and 12), and some photographs of ceremonies including the H.R.H. The Duke of Connaught laying the foundation stone on February 29, 1908 (Album 10, pages 8-9), and the laying of the final stone with Abbas II Hilmi, the Khedive of Egypt, on February 9, 1909 (Album 5, page 24).The collection consists of both nondescript albums with affixed photographs accompanied by typed or handwritten captions, as well as more formal presentation albums, which include inscriptions of W. L. Lowe Brown, resident engineer at the Asyut Barrage (Album 1); John Aird, whose company constructed the dam (Albums 2, 6, and 8) Murdoch MacDonald, chief engineer beginning in 1902 (Album 3); While most of the albums are limited to photographs and captions, Album 1 and 2 have an eight-page printed preface by William E. Garstin and Albums 5 and 6 have two introductory pages of printed explanatory notes by Murdoch MacDonald. Photographers engaged in documenting the construction and heightening projects were D.S. George (construction of the Aswan Dam and first heightening), F. Fiorillo (first heightening), A. Gianny (viewing of Aswan Dam), A. Marques (first heightening), and other unidentified photographers. Within the materials, there are variant spellings of Aswan including Assuan and Asswan.
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