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Description
2008-2817 PHOTO: TUNNELS (SAN BERNARDINO MOUNTAINS) Shows timber-framed tunnel opening with man standing just inside. "1850 feet long, 260 feet under ground, 4882 feet above tide water, through a spur of the San Bernardino mountains in the Sierra Madre Range" -- handwritten on verso. Beginning in 1891, the Arrowhead Reservoir Company began construction of irrigation project for city of San Bernardino. Consisted of series of roads, tunnels and dams.
Type
image
Format
Photographs. Nonprojected graphic
Extent
1 photographic print : cyanotype ; 4 5/8 x 6 3/4 in.
Identifier
(C)001392111CSL01-Aleph (DRA)VVW-5450
Subject
Tunnels--California--San Bernardino Mountains Construction--California--San Bernardino Mountains San Bernardino Mountains (Calif.)--Photographs Photographic prints Cyanotypes
Place
California San Bernardino Mountains San Bernardino Mountains (Calif.)
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