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Tahoe Keys Project, looking N-NW, 1965
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| Title | Tahoe Keys Project, looking N-NW, 1965 |
| Image ID | UNRS-P2003-10-371 |
| Photographer | Lake Tahoe Area Council
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| Image Date | 1965 |
| Summary/Description | Title taken from photograph. Caption on image: This is a view of the Tahoe Keys project. Notice the appearance of the water in the lagoons. Notice also that the exit from the lagoons has been blocked off by a sand bar. This happens every winter. In the past, it has been popular to blame Tahoe Keys for ruining the color of the Lake at the South Shore, but it is very likely that the bulk of the material was coming from subdivision activity farther upstream. Now, however, the Keys operation is cutting into the Upper Truckee River and undoubtedly is causing at least some of the discoloration shown in these pictures. Photograph taken May 14, 1965. This image is part of the Lake Tahoe Area Council photograph collection. The Council was a private, non-political and non-profit organization dedicated to the preservation and orderly development of the Lake Tahoe Basin. It sought cooperation between private land owners and governmental agencies to solve basin-wide problems of planning, land use, |
| Subject | Aerial photographs -- Lake Tahoe (Calif. and Nev.)
Aerial photographs -- Tahoe Keys (Calif.)
Water quality - -- Tahoe, Lake, Region (Calif. and Nev.)
Environmental policy -- Tahoe, Lake, Region (Calif. and Nev.)
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| Location | Lake Tahoe (Calif. and Nev.)
Tahoe, Lake (Calif. and Nev.)
Tahoe Keys (subdivision) (Calif.)
El Dorado County
California
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| Collection Name | Images of Lake Tahoe |
| Ordering and Permissions Information | Not to be reproduced without permission. For permissions information, please see http://knowledgecenter.unr.edu/materials/specoll/photos.aspx#order
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| Electronic Publisher | Special Collections Department, University of Nevada, Reno Library |
| Date Digital | 2006 |
| Related item(s) | Lake Tahoe Area Council manuscript collection NC1200 (see: http://www.library.unr.edu/specoll/mss/NC1200.html) |
| Format | image/jpeg |
| Digitization Specifications | These images exist as archived TIFF images and one or more JPEG versions for general use. They were scanned at 400 dpi, 24-bit from the original. |
| File Name | UNRS-P2003-10-371.jpg |
| Resource Type | Image |
| Contributing Institution | University of Nevada, Reno |
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