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Title: Box Canyon stage road
Alternative Title: Security Pacific National Bank Photo Collection
Contributing Institution: Los Angeles Public Library
Collection: Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection
Rights Information: Images available for reproduction and use. Please see the Ordering & Use page at http://tessa.lapl.org/OrderingUse.html for additional information.
Description: The old Butterfield Stagecoach road in Box Canyon, located between Blair and Mason Valley, this side of Vallecito. In 1847 the Mormon Battalion hewed the rocky passage to widen it for the coaches and thus opened the first road into California from the east.
Type: Image
Format: 1 photograph :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00071196
Security Pacific National Bank Collection
Box Canyon.; N-001-752 8x10
CARL0000074659
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/113816
Subject: Butterfield Overland Stage Line
Roads--California--Box Canyon
Coaching (Transportation)--California--Box Canyon
Canyons--California--Box Canyon
Box Canyon (San Diego County, Calif.)

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