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Description
Plates in: Photographs, Strawberry Dam, Philadelphia Ditch, original construction, 1912-1916, photograph album, page 131. Consists of five panels: panel 1. Shovel working on quarry No 1 -- panel 2. Substation & compressor house on hill above -- panel 3. General view of up stream face of dam -- panel 4. General view of drop fill. Shows train from Quarry No 1. dumping from 90 ft level -- panel 5. Right abutment of dam. The dirt dump in foreground is a waste dump from one of the rock Quarries. 2010-0325. 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 1/4 x 22 1/2 in.
Identifier
(C)001433690CSL01-Aleph
Language
English
Subject
Sierra and San Francisco Power Company--Photographs Dam construction--California--Tuolumne County Steam shovels Railroads--California--Tuolumne County Trestles--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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