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Pictured is Fremont Pass, the rough, hard way that the pioneers plodded, which lies beside modern Highway 99 in San Fernando Valley. A woman shows her young son a marker in tribute to the men who fought across mountain and desert to win the West in the mid Eighteen-forties. Photograph dated December 8, 1948.
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image
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1 photographic print :b&w ;26 x 21 cm. Photographic prints
Roads--California, Southern Mountain passes--California, Southern Plaques, plaquettes--California--Los Angeles County Women--California--Los Angeles County Boys--California--Los Angeles County Mountains--California, Southern Newhall Pass (Calif.) United States Highway 99 Valley Times Collection photographs
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