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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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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