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Description
Plates in: Photographs, Strawberry Dam, Philadelphia Ditch, original construction, 1912-1916, photograph album, page 21. Eleven panels mounted on canvas backing: panel 1. Rock quarry -- panel 2. Transmission and air line -- panel 3. Concrete mixing plant -- panel 4. Rock fill from quarry -- panel 5. Rock fill and dirt dump in distance -- panel 6. Rock fill model 41 shovel working on overburden -- panel 7. Right hand bank. Black lines on rock show upstream trace of dam -- panel 8. Tunnel adit -- panel 9. Crest of old timber dam -- panel 10. Buildings used when old dam was built -- panel 11. 30 H.P. motor on centrifugal pump. 2010-0196. 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 5/8 x 46 in.
Identifier
(C)001433323CSL01-Aleph
Language
English
Subject
Sierra and San Francisco Power Company--Photographs Dam construction--California--Tuolumne County Quarrying--California--Tuolumne County Concrete--California--Tuolumne County Steam shovels Pumps Engines 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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