The Eastwood multiple arched dam, Big Bear Valley, San Bernadino Co., Cal.

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The Eastwood multiple arched dam, Big Bear Valley, San Bernadino Co., Cal.

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Illustration showing multiple arch dam, with cameo portrait of John S. Eastwood.

Caption: The upstream side of Big Bear Valley Dam, illustrating the characteristic shape of a multiple arch design; the portrait is of Eastwood, circa 1912. (John S. Eastwood Papers, Water Resources Center Archives).
Illus. in: Building the ultimate dam : John S. Eastwood and the control of water in the West / Donald C. Jackson. Lawrence, Kansas : University Press of Kansas, c1995, p. 10.

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1912

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bear valley

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Library of Congress

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