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Description
Plates in: Photographs, Strawberry Dam, Philadelphia Ditch, original construction, 1912-1916, photograph album, page 157. Six panels mounted on paper backing: panel #1. Rock crushing plant -- panel #2. Left end of dam -- panel #3. Shows derrick #2 on laid wall -- panel #4. Shows derrick #3 and #4 on laid wall also work on concrete apron -- panel #5. Right end of dam. Shows Arndt quarry above and the laid wall and form work on concrete apron below -- panel #6. Taken from left bank on railroad grade. Shows log dam and work on foundation for outlet tower. 2010-0128. Album recording 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 25 in.
Identifier
(C)001433730CSL01-Aleph
Language
English
Subject
Sierra and San Francisco Power Company--Photographs Dam construction--California--Tuolumne County Hoisting machinery Concrete--California--Tuolumne County Railroads--California--Tuolumne County Quarrying--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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