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Description
Plates in: Photographs, Strawberry Dam, Philadelphia Ditch, original construction, 1912-1916, photograph album, page 51. Eleven panels mounted on canvas: panel 1. Showing shovel loading train in Quarry No 1. Pump house over in foreground raises water to compressors and for camp supply -- panels 2-3. Shows track built across crest of old dam to drill sharpening shops on hill above -- panel 4. Showing concrete plants laid up for the winter. The top of the completed toe wall shows at the extreme bottom of the picture with the reinforcing steel sticking out -- panel 5. Shows train dumping in rock fill from Quarry No 1. -- panels 6-7. Shows train from Quarry No 2 dumping from trestle into rockfill -- panel 8. Shows grade from Quarry No 2 and Tunnel Adit below -- panel 9-10. Looking across crest of old dam. Air aftercooler shows in foreground -- panel 11. Looking up old Reservoir on right hand bank. Quarry No 2 is located in the distance in the center of this view but is not visible, Dec. 1, 1913. 2010-0240. 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
1 photographic print ; 6 1/2 x 49 in.
Identifier
(C)001433433CSL01-Aleph
Language
English
Subject
Sierra and San Francisco Power Company--Photographs Dams--California--Tuolumne County Dam construction--California--Tuolumne County Trestles--California--Tuolumne County Railroads--California--Tuolumne County Concrete--California--Tuolumne County Steam shovels Waterworks--California--San Francisco Strawberry Dam (Calif.)--Photographs Tuolumne County (Calif.)--Photographs Photographic prints Photograph albums Panoramic photographs
Place
California Tuolumne County San Francisco Strawberry Dam (Calif.) Tuolumne County (Calif.)
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