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Photographs and diary pages relating to Lyman Wilbur's visits to Afghanistan in 1957 and 1958. Wilbur was a vice president of Morrison Knudsen Co. a civil engineering and heavy construction firm responsible for a multi-million dollar contract to build irrigation infrastructure in the Helmand Valley of Afghanistan. The project included three dams, a canal system, and planned farming community.