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Title: North End Tunnel No 2
Date Created and/or Issued: [18--]
Contributing Institution: California State Library
Collection: California History Section Picture Catalog
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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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