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Title: [Mission Dam remnant on San Diego River]
Contributor: SoCa Digitization Project. C
Date Created and/or Issued: 1980
Contributing Institution: California State Library
Collection: California History Section Picture Catalog
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Description: 2004-0182
PHOTO: SAN DIEGO CO.: GENERAL VIEWS: MISSION DAM
View of Mission Dam remnant located in the San Diego River; shows rock and mortar wall, roots and branches of shrub growing from exposed end (left of center); dam and aqueduct built 1813-1816. Handwritten on verso: Dam across San Diego River built from 1805 to 1810 [sic] by Franciscan Monks to furnish water for San Diego Mission. About 10 miles east of Mission. San Diego; 1980.
Type: image
Format: Photographs.
Nonprojected graphic
Extent: 1 photographic print as a postcard ; 3 3/8 x 5 5/8 in.
Identifier: (C)001385340CSL01-Aleph
(DRA)VVV-8612
Subject: San Diego Mission--Photographs
Dams--California--San Diego
Aqueducts--California--San Diego
San Diego (Calif.)--Photographs
San Diego County (Calif.)--Photographs
Photographic prints
Photographic postcards
Place: California
San Diego
San Diego (Calif.)
San Diego County (Calif.)

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