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Description
Plates in: Photographs, Strawberry Dam, Philadelphia Ditch, original construction, 1912-1916, photograph album, page 91-92, 95-96, 112, 127-129, 150-151. View 1 (2010-0281). Strawberry Dam. View showing hand laid section in front of loose fill. Oct. 1, 1914. Shows derricks on right -- view 2 (2010-0282). Strawberry Dam. Detailed view of face work on hand laid section. Oct. 1, 1914 -- view 3 (2010-0283). Strawberry Dam. End view of hand-laid section showing method of bringing up the laid rock behind the toe wall. Oct. 1, 1914 -- view 4 (2010-0285). Excavation for hand laid section behind toe-wall. Strawberry Dam - Oct. 14, 1914 -- view 5 (2010-0287). Hand laid section - Strawberry Dam, Oct. 14, 1914. Shows wall, construction workers, derrick -- view 6 (2010-0301). Looking across hand-land section toward left-hand end. Strawberry Dam. Dec. 2, 1914 -- view 7 (2010-0318). View of hand laid section from right bank. Strawberry Dam. June 2nd 1915 -- view 8 (2010-0319). View of hand laid section from left bank. Strawberry Dam. May 14th 1915 -- view 9 (2010-0320). View across hand laid wall, taken from left bank, water 15 ft deep in front of wall. Strawberry Dam. June 2nd 1915 -- view 10 (2010-0323). Strawberry Dam. Sectional view of the hand laid section, May 27th, 1915. View 11 (2010-0341). View of hand laid section from left hand bank Strawberry Dam, 9-10-15 -- view 12 (2010-0115). View showing hand laid section from left bank at elevation approximate 5580 feet, 9-10-15. 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
12 photographic prints ; 4 3/4 x 6 3/4 in. and 6 3/4 x 4 3/4 in.
Identifier
(C)001433540CSL01-Aleph
Language
English
Subject
Sierra and San Francisco Power Company--Photographs Dam construction--California--Tuolumne County Construction workers--California--Tuolumne County Hoisting machinery Trestles--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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