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Big Creek, Mono-Bear Diversion

Description: Big Creek, Mono-Bear Diversion - Another view showing excavation for trench, north end of Mono Dam.
Type: Visual Materials(Opens in new tab)
Date: 8/5/1927
Call number: photCL SCE 02 - 14398
Find out more: View in the Huntington Digital Library(Opens in new tab); View in the Library catalog(Opens in new tab)

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