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Description
Plates in: Photographs, Strawberry Dam, Philadelphia Ditch, original construction, 1912-1916, photograph album, page 27. Set of nine photographs pasted together, mounted on canvas: panel 1. Showing concrete quarry of subcontractor and long chute from sand and rock bins to mixer. Cement warehouse to left of mixer -- panel 2. Showing rock fill from Quarry No. 1 Power company's plant in upper left hand corner. "A" frame for stiff leg derrick, below in foreground -- panel 3. Showing drop fill from Quarry No. 1, derrick shown is over toe wall excavation. Train shown is taking dirt from toe wall excavation to dirt dump in distance -- panel 4. General view of rock fill -- panel 5. Showing shovel working in overburden on right hand bank. Derrick shown is used on toe wall excavation -- panel 6. Black lines painted on bed rock are for cut off wall excavation, Tunnel Adit shows below -- panel 7. Crest of Old Timber Dam -- panel 8. Old buildings have been raised to make way for grade to Quarry No 2 -- panel 9. Shows location selected for Quarry No 2. 2010-0205. 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 38 1/4 in.
Identifier
(C)001433384CSL01-Aleph
Language
English
Subject
Sierra and San Francisco Power Company--Photographs Dams--California--Tuolumne County Dam construction--California--Tuolumne County Railroads--California--Tuolumne County Quarrying--California--Tuolumne County Concrete--California--Tuolumne County Hoisting machinery 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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