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[United States Forest Service Sierra Nevada construction projects photograph album].
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[United States Forest Service Sierra Nevada construction projects photograph album]Abstract:
Snapshots depicting unidentified construction projects in the Sierra Nevada, likely by United States Forest Service crews.
Views show construction of dams and associated bridges in multiple, chiefly unidentified areas; construction workers on site
and at leisure; and work camps. Other scenes depict unidentified rivers, valleys, hillsides, forests, etc. A few officially
marked U.S.F.S. trucks are depicted. Among the scant identified subjects in a few images are Yosemite Valley and Southern
California Edison's Huntington Lake Reservoir.
Date:
1930 (issued)Subject:
n-us-caDams -- California -- Design and construction -- Photographs
Construction workers -- California -- Photographs
Ouvriers de la construction -- Californie -- Photographies
Construction workers
Dams -- Design and construction
Sierra Nevada (Calif. and Nev.) -- Photographs
Nevada, Sierra (Calif. et Nev.) -- Photographies
California
United States -- Sierra Nevada
United States. -- Forest Service -- Photographs
United States. -- Forest Service
Note:
Title devised by cataloger.
Photographer(s) unknown.
Many photographs are hand-numbered in margins. No descriptions present on fronts of photographs or on album leaves.
Purchase from Ken Harrison Western Americana ; 2014.
United States Forest Service Sierra Nevada construction projects photograph album, BANC PIC 2015.091, The Bancroft Library,
University of California, Berkeley.
Type:
graphicPhotographs
Photograph albums.
Physical Description:
photoprint
approximately 165 photographs in 1 album : gelatin silver prints ; prints various sizes, album 19 x 29 cm
Language:
English