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Title: [Construction of Folsom Dam]
Date Created and/or Issued: 1898
Contributing Institution: California State Library
Collection: California History Section Picture Catalog
Rights Information: Please contact the contributing institution for more information regarding the copyright status of this object.
Description: 2009-1120.
Shows dam site under construction, rocky hillside with men in prison outfits loading rock in wheelbarrows and carts on tracks. Open-sided structure on right, hoisting equipment in center.
Type: image
Format: Photographs.
Nonprojected graphic
Extent: 1 photographic print ; image 7 1/4 x 9 1/4 in. on mount 7 7/8 x 9 7/8 in.
Identifier: (C)001393453CSL01-Aleph
(DRA)VVW-6818
Language: English
Subject: Dam construction--California--Sacramento County
Prisoners--California--Sacramento County
Quarrying--California--Sacramento County
Sacramento County (Calif.)--Photographs
Folsom Dam (Calif.)--Photographs
Photographic prints
Place: California
Sacramento County
Sacramento County (Calif.)
Folsom Dam (Calif.)

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