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This rare photo shows the 1893 construction of the original timberfaced, rock-filled dam that impounded the millpond for C.B. Shaver's pioneer lumbering venture at Shaver Lake

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Title: This rare photo shows the 1893 construction of the original timberfaced, rock-filled dam that impounded the millpond for C.B. Shaver's pioneer lumbering venture at Shaver Lake
Creator: U.S. Forest Service, photographer
Date Created and/or Issued: 1893
Contributing Institution: Huntington Library
Collection: Southern California Edison Photographs and Negatives
Rights Information: For information on using Huntington Library materials, please see Reproductions of Huntington Library Holdings: https://www.huntington.org/library-rights-permissions
Description: This rare photo shows the 1893 construction of the original timberfaced, rock-filled dam that impounded the millpond for C.B. Shaver's pioneer lumbering venture at Shaver Lake. Pg. 100. [Courtesy United States Forest Service, Shaver Lake.]
Type: image
Format: 306990 Bytes
Extent: Copy negative ; A--8x10
Identifier: 12 - 00087
232878
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/collection/p16003coll2/id/5473
Subject: Dams
Construction
Construction crew
Lumber industry
Place: Shaver Lake (Calif.)
Fresno County (Calif.)
Source: Southern California Edison Photographs and Negatives
Story of Big Creek
Southern California Edison Photographs and Negatives, Huntington Digital Library

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