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Big Sage Rockfill Dam and Reservoir on the Rattlesnake Creek tributary to the Pit River, Alturas vicinity, 1928

Description:: Big Sage Dam is an earthen dam 680 feet (210 m) long and 49 feet (15 m) high, with 8.3 feet (2.5 m) of freeboard. Hot Springs Valley Irrigation District owns the dam [Wikipedia].
Date:: August 1928
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Harry French Blaney Papers, 1919-1970

Milton diversion dam on the Yuba River, Nevada County (Calif.), 1928

Description:: View of the Milton diversion dam on the Yuba River with the Milton Reservoir beyond.
Date:: October 1928
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Beckett, S. H. (Samuel Hume), 1883-1937
Collection:: Harry French Blaney Papers, 1919-1970

Harvesting grain in the Fall River Valley, Fall River Mills vicinity, 1928

Description:: View of a combine harvester in a grain field in Fall River Valley.
Date:: August 1928
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Beckett, S. H. (Samuel Hume), 1883-1937
Collection:: Harry French Blaney Papers, 1919-1970

Sage Dam, view from down stream, Alturas vicinity, 1928

Date:: August 1928
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Beckett, S. H. (Samuel Hume), 1883-1937
Collection:: Harry French Blaney Papers, 1919-1970

Hot Spring Valley on the Pit River, Alturas vicinity, 1928

Description:: Panoramic view of the Hot Spring Valley
Date:: August 1928
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Beckett, S. H. (Samuel Hume), 1883-1937
Collection:: Harry French Blaney Papers, 1919-1970

Hot Spring Valley on the Pit River, Alturas vicinity, 1928

Date:: August 1928
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Beckett, S. H. (Samuel Hume), 1883-1937
Collection:: Harry French Blaney Papers, 1919-1970

Lateral root of a navel orange tree (No. 1085) at the Rubidoux location of the Citrus Experiment Station, Riverside, 1933

Description:: Rubidoux Station, Riverside.
Date:: January 23, 1933
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Beckett, S. H. (Samuel Hume), 1883-1937
Collection:: Harry French Blaney Papers, 1919-1970

Navel orange tree (No. 1085) at the Rubidoux location of the Citrus Experiment Station, Riverside, 1933

Description:: View of a navel orange tree (No. 1085) at the Rubidoux location of the Citrus Experiment Station, with its 37 foot long root exposed.
Date:: January 23, 1933
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Beckett, S. H. (Samuel Hume), 1883-1937
Collection:: Harry French Blaney Papers, 1919-1970

Grapefruit trees in tanks 5, 6, and 7 at the Citrus Experiment Station, Riverside, 1934

Description:: View of three grapefruit trees in tanks 5, 6, and 7, with a citrus orchard just behind.
Date:: October 25, 1934
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Beckett, S. H. (Samuel Hume), 1883-1937
Collection:: Harry French Blaney Papers, 1919-1970

Valenica orange trees in tanks at the Citrus Experiment Station, Riverside, 1934

Description:: View of Valencia orange trees in tanks at the Citrus Experiment Station with orchard trees in the background.
Date:: October 25, 1934
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Beckett, S. H. (Samuel Hume), 1883-1937
Collection:: Harry French Blaney Papers, 1919-1970

Valenica orange trees in tanks at the Citrus Experiment Station, Riverside, 1934

Description:: View of Valencia orange trees in tanks at the Citrus Experiment Station with orchard trees in the background
Date:: October 25, 1934
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Beckett, S. H. (Samuel Hume), 1883-1937
Collection:: Harry French Blaney Papers, 1919-1970

Covercrop of mustard and vetch in a field S-3 at the Citrus Experiment Station, Riverside, 1935

Date:: March 6, 1932
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Beckett, S. H. (Samuel Hume), 1883-1937
Collection:: Harry French Blaney Papers, 1919-1970

Trench for the study of root development of citrus at the Citrus Experiment Station, Riverside, 1934

Date:: April 14, 1934
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Compton, O. C. (Oliver Cecil), 1903-
Collection:: Harry French Blaney Papers, 1919-1970

Trench for the study of root development of citrus in Field S-3 at the Citrus Experiment Station, Riverside, 1934

Description:: View of a trench beside a citrus tree, used for the study of root development of citrus in Field S-3, north side, plot 8, row 4, tree 3 at the Citrus Experiment Station
Date:: December 20, 1934
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Compton, O. C. (Oliver Cecil), 1903-
Collection:: Harry French Blaney Papers, 1919-1970

Shelter over a cover crop at the Citrus Experiment station, Riverside, 1935

Description:: Shelter over a covercrop in a field at the Citrus Experiment station.
Date:: January 16, 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Harry French Blaney Papers, 1919-1970

Trench for the study of root development of citrus at the Citrus Experiment Station, Riverside, 1934

Date:: April 14, 1934
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Compton, O. C. (Oliver Cecil), 1903-
Collection:: Harry French Blaney Papers, 1919-1970

Trench for the study of root development of citrus at the Citrus Experiment Station, Riverside, 1934

Date:: April 14, 1934
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Compton, O. C. (Oliver Cecil), 1903-
Collection:: Harry French Blaney Papers, 1919-1970

Trench for the study of root development of citrus at the Citrus Experiment Station, Riverside, 1934

Date:: April 14, 1934
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Compton, O. C. (Oliver Cecil), 1903-
Collection:: Harry French Blaney Papers, 1919-1970

Effects of size of trees on growth of weeds, plot 6, rows 15 and 16, field S-3, at the Citrus Experiment Station, Riverside, 1936

Date:: August 1936
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Compton, O. C. (Oliver Cecil), 1903-
Collection:: Harry French Blaney Papers, 1919-1970

General view of construction of the All-American Canal through sand hills, Imperial Valley, 1936

Description:: View of a steam crane engaged in the construction of the All-American Canal in sand hills.
Date:: August 1936
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Compton, O. C. (Oliver Cecil), 1903-
Collection:: Harry French Blaney Papers, 1919-1970

General view of construction of the All-American Canal through sand hills, Imperial Valley, 1936

Description:: View of a steam crane engaged in the construction of the All-American Canal in sand hills.
Date:: August 1936
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Compton, O. C. (Oliver Cecil), 1903-
Collection:: Harry French Blaney Papers, 1919-1970

Palm tree in the date orchard of Perry Wellington Van Der Meid, Indio, 1936

Description:: Upward view at the fronts and fruit of a date palm at the date orchard of Perry Wellington Van Der Meid (1894-1963).
Date:: August 1936
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Compton, O. C. (Oliver Cecil), 1903-
Collection:: Harry French Blaney Papers, 1919-1970

Laguna Diversion Dam on the Colorado River, Arizona, 1936

Description:: View across the Laguna Diversion Dam, spanning the Colorado River.
Date:: August 1936
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Compton, O. C. (Oliver Cecil), 1903-
Collection:: Harry French Blaney Papers, 1919-1970

Date orchard of Perry Wellington Van Der Meid, Indio, 1936

Description:: View of date palms at the orchard on Perry W. van der Meid (1894-1963).
Date:: August 1936
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Compton, O. C. (Oliver Cecil), 1903-
Collection:: Harry French Blaney Papers, 1919-1970

Leaves of the 1st, 2nd and 3rd cycle of growth of a navel orange tree from field S-3 at the Citrus Experiment Station, Riverside, 1936

Description:: Photograph of three navel orange tree leaves on paper beside a six inch ruler.
Date:: November 16, 1936
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Compton, O. C. (Oliver Cecil), 1903-
Collection:: Harry French Blaney Papers, 1919-1970

Navel orange with splitting from field S-3 at the Citrus Experiment Station, Riverside 1936

Description:: View of a naval orange showing a type of splitting condition with a ruler beneath it at the Citrus Experiment Station.
Date:: November 16, 1936
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Compton, O. C. (Oliver Cecil), 1903-
Collection:: Harry French Blaney Papers, 1919-1970

Navel orange with splitting from field S-3 at the Citrus Experiment Station, Riverside 1936

Description:: View of a naval orange showing a type of splitting condition with a ruler beneath it at the Citrus Experiment Station.
Date:: November 16, 1936
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Compton, O. C. (Oliver Cecil), 1903-
Collection:: Harry French Blaney Papers, 1919-1970

Tangerine hybrid tree in Dr. Frost's collection in field S-1 at the Citrus Experiment Station, Riverside, 1927

Description:: Photograph of a tangerine hybrid tree in Dr. Frost's collection in field S-1 at the Citrus Experiment Station. The leaves are wilted as a result of the freeze of January 22, 1937.
Date:: January 22, 1937
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Compton, O. C. (Oliver Cecil), 1903-
Collection:: Harry French Blaney Papers, 1919-1970

Wilted orange tree leaves following the freeze of January 1937 (18 1/2 degrees fahrenheit), at the Citrus Experiment Station, Riverside, 193

Description:: Photograph of wilted orange tree leaves of a branch, on a sheet of paper.
Date:: January 22, 1937
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Compton, O. C. (Oliver Cecil), 1903-
Collection:: Harry French Blaney Papers, 1919-1970

Wilted orange tree leaves following the freeze of January 22, 1937 (18 1/2 degrees fahrenheit), at the Citrus Experiment Station, Riverside, 1937

Description:: Photograph of two orange tree leaves on a sheet of paper.
Date:: January 22, 1937
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Compton, O. C. (Oliver Cecil), 1903-
Collection:: Harry French Blaney Papers, 1919-1970

Orange grove with poor drainage on California State Route 76, Oceanside, 1937

Description:: View of an orange grove with poor drainage on California State Route 76, about 1 mile east of Mission San Luis Rey, which is just visible in the distance.
Date:: March 2, 1937
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Parker, E. R. (Edwin Robert), 1896-1952
Collection:: Harry French Blaney Papers, 1919-1970

Orange grove with poor drainage after a rain on California State Route 76, Oceanside, 1937

Description:: View of a flooded orange grove on California State Route 76, about 1 mile east of Mission San Luis Rey.
Date:: March 2, 1937
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Parker, E. R. (Edwin Robert), 1896-1952
Collection:: Harry French Blaney Papers, 1919-1970

Soil profile in walnut orchard, Irvine vicinity, 1938

Description:: View of a deep trench beside a walnut tree, revealing its root system.
Date:: Spring 1938
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Wahlberg, H. E. (Harold Edward), 1889 or 90-1989
Collection:: Harry French Blaney Papers, 1919-1970

Soil profile in walnut orchard, Irvine vicinity, 1938

Description:: View of a deep trench beside a row of walnut trees, revealing the root systems.
Date:: Spring 1938
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Wahlberg, H. E. (Harold Edward), 1889 or 90-1989
Collection:: Harry French Blaney Papers, 1919-1970

Edison Avenue grass plot, Ontario (probably), 1927-1940

Description:: A list accompanying the "negs of plots" images identifies the "bare" plots as being on "Edison Avenue." Other locations on the list are in Glen Avon Heights (now Jurupa Valley) and Devil Canyon (north of San Bernardino) (image ark no. 21198/zz002jk848).
Date:: [between 1927-1940]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Harry French Blaney Papers, 1919-1970

View of the remaining center portion of the St. Francis Dam after its disastrous collapse, San Francisquito Canyon (Calif.), 1928

Description:: View of the outside wall of the largest remaining portion of the Saint Francis Dam after its collapse, known as the tombstone section.
Date:: [March 1928]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Harry French Blaney Papers, 1919-1970

View of the remaining center portion of the St. Francis Dam after its disastrous collapse, San Francisquito Canyon (Calif.), 1928

Description:: The St. Francis Dam was a 200-foot high concrete gravity-arch dam built between 1924 and 1926 in St. Francisquito Canyon (near present-day Castaic and Santa Clarita). The dam collapsed on March 12, 1928 at two and a half minutes before midnight. The resulting flood killed more than 600 residents plus an unknown number of itinerant farm workers camped in San Francisquito Canyon, making it the 2nd greatest loss of life in California after the 1906 San Francisco earthquake. It is considered the worst American civil engineering failure in the 20th century.
Date:: [March 1928]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Harry French Blaney Papers, 1919-1970

Flood damaged landscape along a train track after the failure of the Saint Francis Dam, Santa Clara River Valley, 1928

Description:: The St. Francis Dam was a 200-foot high concrete gravity-arch dam built between 1924 and 1926 in St. Francisquito Canyon (near present-day Castaic and Santa Clarita). The dam collapsed on March 12, 1928 at two and a half minutes before midnight. The resulting flood killed more than 600 residents plus an unknown number of itinerant farm workers camped in San Francisquito Canyon, making it the 2nd greatest loss of life in California after the 1906 San Francisco earthquake. It is considered the worst American civil engineering failure in the 20th century
Date:: [March 1928]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Harry French Blaney Papers, 1919-1970

Flood damaged landscape along a train track after the failure of the Saint Francis Dam, Santa Clara River Valley, 1928

Description:: The St. Francis Dam was a 200-foot high concrete gravity-arch dam built between 1924 and 1926 in St. Francisquito Canyon (near present-day Castaic and Santa Clarita). The dam collapsed on March 12, 1928 at two and a half minutes before midnight. The resulting flood killed more than 600 residents plus an unknown number of itinerant farm workers camped in San Francisquito Canyon, making it the 2nd greatest loss of life in California after the 1906 San Francisco earthquake. It is considered the worst American civil engineering failure in the 20th century
Date:: [March 1928]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Harry French Blaney Papers, 1919-1970

Edison Avenue bare plot, Ontario (probably), 1927-1940

Description:: A list accompanying the "negs of plots" images identifies the "bare" plots as being on "Edison Avenue." Other locations on the list are in Glen Avon Heights (now Jurupa Valley) and Devil Canyon (north of San Bernardino) (image ark no. 21198/zz002jk848).
Date:: [between 1927-1940]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Harry French Blaney Papers, 1919-1970

Typed list of plot locations in Ontario (probably), Glen Avon Heights and Devil Canyon, 1927-1940

Date:: [between 1927-1940]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Harry French Blaney Papers, 1919-1970

Edison Avenue grass plot, Ontario (probably), 1927-1940

Description:: A list accompanying the "negs of plots" images identifies the "bare" plots as being on "Edison Avenue." Other locations on the list are in Glen Avon Heights (now Jurupa Valley) and Devil Canyon (north of San Bernardino) (image ark no. 21198/zz002jk848).
Date:: [between 1927-1940]
1927/1940
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Harry French Blaney Papers, 1919-1970

Brush plot over the north tunnel at Devil Canyon (possibly), San Bernardino vicinity, 1927-1940

Description:: A list accompanying the "negs of plots" images identifies a similar photograph as a brush plot over the north tunnel [in] Devil Canyon, an area north of San Bernardino.
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Harry French Blaney Papers, 1919-1970

Remaining dike wing and the canyon area behind the failed Saint Francis Dam, San Francisquito Canyon (Calif.), 1928

Description:: View across San Francisquito Canyon at the location of the failed Saint Francis Dam has stood. The remaining wing wall of the dam dike is in on the ridge above. Five men wearing suits stand on the canyon floor below and more men are climbing up to the ridge. They the group of geologists and civil engineers who inspected the dam site in the days following the failure of the dam.
Date:: [March 1928]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Harry French Blaney Papers, 1919-1970

View of the remaining center portion of the St. Francis Dam after its disastrous collapse, San Francisquito Canyon (Calif.), 1928

Description:: View of the outside wall of the largest remaining portion of the Saint Francis Dam after its collapse, known as the tombstone section.
Date:: [March 1928]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Harry French Blaney Papers, 1919-1970

View of the remaining center portion of the St. Francis Dam after its disastrous collapse, San Francisquito Canyon (Calif.), 1928

Description:: The St. Francis Dam was a 200-foot high concrete gravity-arch dam built between 1924 and 1926 in St. Francisquito Canyon (near present-day Castaic and Santa Clarita). The dam collapsed on March 12, 1928 at two and a half minutes before midnight. The resulting flood killed more than 600 residents plus an unknown number of itinerant farm workers camped in San Francisquito Canyon, making it the 2nd greatest loss of life in California after the 1906 San Francisco earthquake. It is considered the worst American civil engineering failure in the 20th century.
Date:: [March 1928]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Harry French Blaney Papers, 1919-1970

Concrete ruins of the Saint Francis Dam after its failure, San Francisquito Canyon (Calif.), 1928

Description:: View of concrete ruins of the Saint Francis Dam after its failure. The ruins are at the base of the central portion of the dam, which remained standing. A man wearing a suit is standing of the ruins in the upper right portion of the photograph.
Date:: [March 1928]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Harry French Blaney Papers, 1919-1970

Worker watches as a crane clears a pile of foliate debris deposited by the flood following the failure of the Saint Francis Dam, Bardsdale (probably), 1928

Description:: This photo was taken in the Santa Clara River Valley. The setting with palm trees and cranes is similar to other photos in this collections identified as Bardsdale.
Date:: [March 1928]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Harry French Blaney Papers, 1919-1970

House and palm tree in the path of the flood that followed the failure of the Saint Francis Dam, Santa Clara River Valley (Calif.), 1928

Description:: Landscape with a palm tree, well and water tank in the center, flanked by tractors and with men working beside a house on the right, after the flood that followed the failure of the Saint Francis Dam.
Date:: [March 1928]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Harry French Blaney Papers, 1919-1970

Foliate debris deposited in front of row of trees by the flood following the failure of the Saint Francis Dam, Bardsdale, 1928

Description:: Area of foliate debris deposited in front of a tree line by the flood following the failure of the Saint Francis Dam. A man in a suit and hat stands in the middle ground, center.
Date:: [March 1928]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Harry French Blaney Papers, 1919-1970

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