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Description
Plates in: Photographs, Strawberry Dam, Philadelphia Ditch, original construction, 1912-1916, photograph album, page 3. View 1 (2010-0168). Excavation started for rocwall, April, 20, 1913. Shows buildings, hoists, locomotive and railroad tracks -- view 2 (2010-0169). Excavation and rockfill. April, 20, 1913. Shows buildings, railroad tracks and locomotive -- view 3 (2010-0170). Redrock on north slope of toe wall. April, 20,1913. Shows hoisting machinery, buildings, flatbed rail cars. 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
3 photographic prints ; 5 1/8 x 5 1/8 in. and 3 x 5 1/4 in.
Identifier
(C)001433222CSL01-Aleph
Language
English
Subject
Sierra and San Francisco Power Company--Photographs Dam construction--California--Tuolumne County Hoisting machinery Railroads--California--Tuolumne County Excavation--California--Tuolumne County Waterworks--California--San Francisco Strawberry Dam (Calif.)--Photographs Tuolumne County (Calif.)--Photographs Photographic prints Photograph albums
Place
California Tuolumne County San Francisco Strawberry Dam (Calif.) Tuolumne County (Calif.)
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