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[Alessandro Tract showing distributing reservoir]
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[Alessandro tract looking west, northwest, and northeast from mountains southeast of Moreno]
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[Bear Valley Reservoir looking southeast]
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Black-and-white photograph of the forest-lined Bear Valley Reservoir in the San Bernardino Mountains of Southern California. The image (no. 135) forms part of a series of mammoth plate photographs created by photographer Herve Friend for the Bear Valley Irrigation Company.
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[Alessandro tract looking west, northwest, and northeast from mountains southeast of Moreno]
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Three black-and-white photographs that comprise a landscape panorama of Moreno Valley in Southern California, looking out across a sweeping valley, with suburban tract homes in the foreground and mountains in the distance. This panorama by photographer William Short recreates the same view of Moreno Valley as that taken by Herve Friend for the Bear Valley Irrigation Company in 1891.
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Map of the Alessandro Tract and Alessandro Irrigation District, San Bernardino County, California : showing the Bear Valley Irrigation Co's system of main and lateral canals, flumes and pipe lines for the distribution of water over the Alessandro Irrigation District / F.E. Brown Chief Eng'r. J.T. Taylor Eng'r. in charge
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In the current Moreno Valley. MS note: 354455. Prime meridian: GM. Relief: hachures. Graphic Scale: Feet. Projection: Plane. Printing Process: Lithography. Verso Text: MS note: Map of Alessandro Tract F.E. Brown, Chief Engr. 1890-1891.
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