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FACING EAST AT RETAINING WALL BEYOND END OF TURNOUT. BASE OF TURTLEBACK DOME IS VISIBLE AT RIGHT. - Wawona Road, Between South Entrance and Yosemite Valley, Yosemite Village, Mariposa County, CA
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Grogan, Brian C.

Related names:

Washburn Group; Conway, John; Bureau of Public Roads; Clark, Galen; Mann, Milton; Mann, Houston; Campbell, J B; Moore, Edwin; Kiel, Jarvis; Washburn, Henry; Thomas, R B; Conway, John; Ridgeway, Josephus; Ridgeway, James; Benson, Harry C; Lane, Franklin K; Mather, Stephen T; Tolen, Henry S; Thompson, Charles Goff; Buwalda, John B; McDuffie, Duncan; Olmsted, Frederick Law; Kittredge, Frank A; Albright, Horace; Civilian Conservation Corps; Connelly, T E; Wosky, John B; Taylor, O G; Leavitt, E P; Solinsky, E C; Tolen, Henry S; Le Tourneau and Lindberg; W A Bechtel Company; J F Collins Company; Welch and Murdock; Contoules Construction Company; Goerig and Dahlberg; George Pollock Company; McLemen, J C; Granite Construction Company; Clements, F E; Quin, transmitter; Christianson, Justine, historian
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FACING EAST AT RETAINING WALL BEYOND END OF TURNOUT. BASE OF TURTLEBACK DOME IS VISIBLE AT RIGHT. - Wawona Road, Between South Entrance and Yosemite Valley, Yosemite Village, Mariposa County, CA
Depicted place California; Mariposa County; Yosemite Village
Date 1991
date QS:P571,+1991-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Dimensions 4 x 5 in.
Current location
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
Accession number
HAER CAL,22-WAWO,4-3
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  • Significance: The most successful of the Yosemite toll roads, the Wawona Road remains the chief entrance road to the park from southern California.
  • Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: N839
  • Survey number: HAER CA-148
  • Building/structure dates: 1875 Initial Construction
  • Building/structure dates: 1932- 1933 Subsequent Work
Source https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/ca1920.photos.041906p
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Public domain This image or media file contains material based on a work of a National Park Service employee, created as part of that person's official duties. As a work of the U.S. federal government, such work is in the public domain in the United States. See the NPS website and NPS copyright policy for more information.
Object location37° 44′ 43.01″ N, 119° 35′ 49.99″ W Kartographer map based on OpenStreetMap.View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMapinfo

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