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Stone & Webster #11 is working the gravel pit in the Basin in February 1913

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Title: Stone & Webster #11 is working the gravel pit in the Basin in February 1913
Creator: Stone & Webster, photographer
Date Created and/or Issued: 1913-02
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: Stone & Webster #11, which began life in 1866 as Central Pacific #24 "Montana," is working the gravel pit in the Basin in February 1913. Trainloads of gravel were carried several miles to a crushing and mixing plant, where the rock was made into concrete for the three dams then under construction on the perimeter of the Basin.
Type: image
Format: 405457 Bytes
Extent: Copy negative ; A--8x10
Identifier: 12 - 00038
232853
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/collection/p16003coll2/id/5498
Subject: Hydroelectric power-plants
Dams
Railroad locomotives
Railroad freight cars
Place: Huntington 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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