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Description
Plates in: Photographs, Strawberry Dam, Philadelphia Ditch, original construction, 1912-1916, photograph album, page 141. Shows construction workers, derricks. View 1 (2010-0334). Strawberry Dam - Aug. 5, 1915, view of new rock fill dam from floor of reservoir. Dismanteling [sic] old log dam in foreground -- view 2 (2010-0335). Strawberry Dam - Aug. 5, 1915, removing the old log crib dam that was built in 1861. Log cribs still in good condition. 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
2 photographic prints ; 4 7/8 x 6 3/4 in.
Identifier
(C)001433713CSL01-Aleph
Language
English
Subject
Sierra and San Francisco Power Company--Photographs Dam construction--California--Tuolumne County Construction workers--California--Tuolumne County Hoisting machinery 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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