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Description
Plates in: Photographs, Strawberry Dam, Philadelphia Ditch, original construction, 1912-1916, photograph album, page 73, 76. View 1 (2010-0260). Flume at the head of the Philadelphia ditch with diverting dam in the distance. May 26, 1914 -- view 2 (2010-0261). Flume line of the Phildelphia Ditch about 1000 feet below the point of diversion. May 26, 1914 -- view 3 (2010-0266). Flume line at head of Philadelphia Ditch looking down stream from the point of diversion. Shows the wrecked condition of the old flume. May 26, 1914 -- view 4 (2010-0267). Philadelphia Ditch diverting dam. Dam is a cedar log laid across the river with sheeting laid on the upper side. Flume entirely gone. Small flume bent shows in foreground. May 26, 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
4 photographic prints ; 4 7/8 x 6 1/4 in. or smaller.
Identifier
(C)001433511CSL01-Aleph
Language
English
Subject
Sierra and San Francisco Power Company--Photographs Dams--California--Tuolumne County Irrigation canals & flumes--California--Tuolumne County Waterworks--California--San Francisco Tuolumne County (Calif.)--Photographs Photographic prints Photograph albums
Place
California Tuolumne County San Francisco Tuolumne County (Calif.)
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