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Title: [Lumberyard and sawmill, 1913] (3 views)
Date Created and/or Issued: 1913
Contributing Institution: California State Library
Collection: California History Section Picture Catalog
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Description: Plates in: Photographs, Strawberry Dam, Philadelphia Ditch, original construction, 1912-1916, photograph album, page 15-16, 19.
View 1 (2010-0188). The lumberyard. About 50,000 bd. ft. of lumber in the yard. Note the large log just going onto the saw. Aug. 17, 1913 -- view 2 (2010-0189). The saw mill. Note the large slab pile. Aug. 17, 1913 -- view 3 (2010-0195). Saw mill, Sept. 1, 1913. Shows lumberyard and saw.
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 1/4 in. and 5 x 21 3/8 in.
Identifier: (C)001433303CSL01-Aleph
Language: English
Subject: Sierra and San Francisco Power Company--Photographs
Dam construction--California--Tuolumne County
Lumber--California--Tuolumne County
Saws
Sawmills--California--Tuolumne County
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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