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Description
Plates in: Photographs, Strawberry Dam, Philadelphia Ditch, original construction, 1912-1916, photograph album, page 45. Five panels mounted on canvas backing: panel 1. Taken from right hand bank, looking downstream. Shows shovel in Quarry No 1, loading train of rock cars -- panel 2. Drill sharpening house and cement warehouse -- panel 3. Concrete plants on hillside above, with chutes to the toe wall below -- panels 4-5. Shows rockfill on far side and trestle to be used to dump dirt from Quarry No 2, Nov. 19, 1913. 2010-0233. 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 1/4 x 21 1/2 in.
Identifier
(C)001433403CSL01-Aleph
Language
English
Subject
Sierra and San Francisco Power Company--Photographs Dam construction--California--Tuolumne County Trestles--California--Tuolumne County Concrete--California--Tuolumne County Steam shovels 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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