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Description
Plates in: Photographs, Strawberry Dam, Philadelphia Ditch, original construction, 1912-1916, photograph album, page 101-102, 114. Shows cableway, buildings. View 1 (2010-0293). View of rock fill behind old log dam. Fill is generally up to the 90 ft. level. Taken from bed of reservoir. Strawberry dam - Nov. 9, 1914 -- view 2 (2010-0294). Quarry No. 1. Rock fill shows to right behind old log dam. Strawberry dam - Nov. 2, 1914 -- view 3 (2010-0304). Rock fill from the reservoir. Strawberry Dam. Dec, 2, 1914. 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 ; 4 7/8 x 6 3/4 in. or smaller.
Identifier
(C)001433608CSL01-Aleph
Language
English
Subject
Sierra and San Francisco Power Company--Photographs Dam construction--California--Tuolumne County Quarrying--California--Tuolumne County Aerial tramways--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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