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Title: [Shaver Dam construction, August 1927]
Creator: White, Manley Freeman, 1882-1953
Date Created and/or Issued: 1927
Contributing Institution: California State Library
Collection: California History Section Picture Catalog
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Description: 2018-1614.
"A742 8-1-27" -- handwritten lower left corner.
A series of dams built on Shaver Lake in the 1890s by the Fresno Flume & Irrigation Co. were replaced in 1927 by new dam built by Southern California Edison to power their Big Creek hydro-electric plant.
Manley Freeman White was born March 25, 1882 in York County, Nebraska to Joseph Freeman White and Hattie Monroe (both from Canada). The family arrived in Fresno between 1885 and 1900. Between 1900 and 1920 resided in Fresno, in the 1920 census listed Manley as being in Merced Falls, in 1930 census listed as being in Hilt, Siskiyou County; by 1940 he is in Klamath Oregon. Worked as millhand in lumber industry. While in Fresno, worked seasonally at Shaver Lake for the Fresno Flume and Irrigation Company (owned by C.B. Swift and Charles B. Shaver). In addition to working in the mill, took photographs in his spare time.
Type: image
Format: Unmediated
Sheet
Photographs.
Nonprojected graphic
Extent: 1 photograph : print ; 5 x 6 1/2 in.
Identifier: (C)001631250CSL01-Aleph
Language: English
Subject: Southern California Edison Company--Photographs
Dams--California--Shaver Lake (Calif. : Lake)
Dam construction--California--Shaver Lake (Calif. : Lake)
Hydroelectric power--California--Shaver Lake (Calif. : Lake)
Hoisting machinery
Shaver Lake (Calif. : Lake)--Photographs
Photographic prints
Place: California
Shaver Lake (Calif. : Lake)

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