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Description
Plates in: Photographs, Strawberry Dam, Philadelphia Ditch, original construction, 1912-1916, photograph album, page 12-13, 23, 26, 31-32. View 1 (2010-0182). Toe wall excavation, showing the shovel moving from the left to the right bank and making a three foot cut as it crosses the river. Picture taken from right bank. Aug. 7, 1913 -- view 2 (2010-0183). Toe wall excavations, showing the shovel moving from the left to the right bank making a three foot cut as it crossed the river. Picture taking from the left bank, Aug. 7, 1913 -- view 3 (2010-0184). Pumping water out of excavation for toe wall with 24 H.P. motor and 6 inch sand pump, Aug. 11, 1913 -- view 4 (2010-0197). Toe wall excavation. Taken from center of stream looking toward left hand bank, Sept. 1, 1913. Shows steam shovel, construction works with shovels and picks, construction cars -- view 5 (2010-0198). Toe wall excavation, Sept. 1, 1913. Shows derricks, locomotive with construction cars, building -- view 6 (2010-0204). Toe wall excavation, Sept. 10, 1913. Shows men working with shovels, railroad, construction cars, derricks. View 7 (2010-0210). Toe wall excavation from left hand bank, Sept. 20, 1913 -- view 8 (2010-0211). Toe wall excavation, taken from left hand bank. Oct. 1, 1913 -- view 9 (2010-0212). Toe wall excavation on left hand side iof the river. Bedrock (very flat) showing over entire bottom. Cut 32 ft deep & 16 ft wide on bottom, Oct. 1, 1913. 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
9 photographic prints ; 4 7/8 x 6 1/2 in. and 6 5/8 x 4 3/4 in.
Identifier
(C)001433233CSL01-Aleph
Language
English
Subject
Sierra and San Francisco Power Company--Photographs Dam construction--California--Tuolumne County Construction workers--Californiaa--Tuolumne County Steam shovels Hoisting machinery Excavation--California--Tuolumne County Pumps Engines Waterworks--California--San Francisco Strawberry Dam (Calif.)--Photographs Tuolumne County (Calif.)--Photographs Photographic prints Photograph albums
Place
California Tuolumne County Californiaa San Francisco Strawberry Dam (Calif.) Tuolumne County (Calif.)
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