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Title: San Bernardino Valley
Alternative Title: Works Progress Administration Photo Collection
Date Created and/or Issued: 1937
Publication Information: Federal Writers' Project
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: View of the San Bernardino Valley, as seen from the Rim of the World Scenic Byway. At this elevation, local chaparral covers the hills like a blanket. The byway, located in the San Bernardino National Forest, is a 110-mile route which traverses the rim of the San Bernardino Mountains from Cajon Pass to San Gorgonio Pass. When built in 1915, it was 101 miles long and had over 2,000 visitors in 1916. Photo dated: June 30, 1937.
Type: image
Format: 1 photograph :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00064709
Works Progress Administration Collection
WPA 947 4x5
CARL0000068729
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/2574
Subject: Scenic byways--California--San Bernardino National Forest
Chaparral--California--San Bernardino National Forest
Mountains--California, Southern
Works Progress Administration Collection photographs
San Bernardino National Forest (Calif.)
San Bernardino Mountains (Calif.)
San Bernardino Valley (Calif.)
Rim of the World Scenic Byway (Calif.)
Panoramic views
Time Period: 1931-1940

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