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Description
Plates in: Photographs, Strawberry Dam, Philadelphia Ditch, original construction, 1912-1916, photograph album, page 35. Four panels on canvas backing: panel 1. Taken from right bank 20 ft above crest of dam now under construction. Shows Rock Quarry No 1, compressor house in extreme upper right hand corner. Timber shown in lake were floated down for trestle work -- panel 2. Shows old timber dam, with cut off wall excavation and form work below. Concrete Quarry in upper right hand corner, mixer shows lower down by Cement Warehouse. Drill sharpening shop is at top of tramway. Pipe lines coming downhill are for compressed air. 440V. Circuits to motors on works show coming down from sub station -- panel 3. Shows rock fill and general view of left hand abutment of dam -- panel 4. Dirt dump shows extending down stream from dam. Building on dirt dump is dining room for nightshift at midnight, Strawberry Dam, October 17, 1913. 2010-0218. Album documents the building of Strawberry Dam between 1912 and 1916; dam was built at the site of an older Strawberry Dam on lower Strawberry Creek for Sierra and San Francisco Power Company by Willetts & Burr; also shows work on Philadelphia Ditch, a ditch and flume running from a point on South Fork of Stanislaus River 1 1/2 miles sw of town of Strawberry to Philadelphia Diggins (ditch bought by Power Company from Stockton Gravel Mining Co. in 1912); dam and ditch intended to supply water locally and electricity and power to markets as far as San Francisco.
Type
image
Format
Photographs. Nonprojected graphic
Extent
1 photographic print ; 6 1/2 x 16 3/4 in.
Identifier
(C)001433395CSL01-Aleph
Language
English
Subject
Sierra and San Francisco Power Company--Photographs Dams--California--Tuolumne County Dam construction--California--Tuolumne County Concrete--California--Tuolumne County Quarrying--California--Tuolumne County Waterworks--California--San Francisco Strawberry Dam (Calif.)--Photographs Tuolumne County (Calif.)--Photographs Photographic prints Photograph albums Panoramic photographs
Place
California Tuolumne County San Francisco Strawberry Dam (Calif.) Tuolumne County (Calif.)
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