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[Alessandro Tract showing distributing reservoir]

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Description: 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.
Type: Visual Materials(Opens in new tab)
Production date: 1891.
Call number: photOV 11430
Creator: Friend, Hervey(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Purchased by Library Collector's Council, January 2007.
Dimensions: image 33 x 42 cm, sheet 35 x 44 cm
Associated organization: Bear Valley Irrigation Company.

[Alessandro tract looking west, northwest, and northeast from mountains southeast of Moreno]

Visual Materials

Three black-and-white photographs that comprise a part of a mammoth plate landscape panorama of Moreno Valley in Southern California, looking out across a sweeping valley, dotted with a few buildings, and mountains in the distance. The images (nos. 136, 128 & 127) form part of a series of photographs created by photographer Herve Friend for the Bear Valley Irrigation Company.

photOV 11428a-c

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[Bear Valley Reservoir looking southeast]

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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.

photOV 11431

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[San Jacinto dam site from above]

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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.

photOV 11432

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[Alessandro tract looking west, northwest, and northeast from mountains southeast of Moreno]

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Three black-and-white photographs that comprise a landscape panorama of Moreno Valley in Southern California, looking out across a sweeping valley, with suburban tract homes in the foreground and mountains in the distance. This panorama by photographer William Short recreates the same view of Moreno Valley as that taken by Herve Friend for the Bear Valley Irrigation Company in 1891.

photOV 11429a-c

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Map of the Alessandro Tract and Alessandro Irrigation District, San Bernardino County, California : showing the Bear Valley Irrigation Co's system of main and lateral canals, flumes and pipe lines for the distribution of water over the Alessandro Irrigation District / F.E. Brown Chief Eng'r. J.T. Taylor Eng'r. in charge

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In the current Moreno Valley. MS note: 354455. Prime meridian: GM. Relief: hachures. Graphic Scale: Feet. Projection: Plane. Printing Process: Lithography. Verso Text: MS note: Map of Alessandro Tract F.E. Brown, Chief Engr. 1890-1891.

354455

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Photographs of Yosemite

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A collection of 13 photographs of Yosemite National Park made by photographer Herve Friend in 1906, showing waterfalls, the Merced River, and other scenic views of Yosemite Valley.

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[Alessandro Tract showing distributing reservoir]

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