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Description
Plates in: Photographs, Strawberry Dam, Philadelphia Ditch, original construction, 1912-1916, photograph album, page 7. Series of prints (5 3/4 x 3 in.) attached to canvas backing to form panorama. Individual panels are identified: Panel 1. Site of rock quarry -- panel 2. Railway grade from quarry to dam -- panel 3. Shovel on way into quarry -- panel 4. Wood chute from wagon road to bed of river -- panel 5. Over burden removed showing foundation ready to receive rock fill -- panel 6. Shovel used in removing overburden -- panel 7. Derrick used on toe wall excavations -- panel 8. Dirt dump derrick used on toe wall excavations -- panel 9. Two locomotives being moved to quarry railway -- panel 10. Tunnel adit -- panel 11. Blacksmith shop -- panel 12. 300 H.P. motor on 3 stage pump used to sluice overburden. 2010-0174. 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
12 photographic prints ; 5 3/4 x 33 1/4 in.
Identifier
(C)001433225CSL01-Aleph
Language
English
Subject
Sierra and San Francisco Power Company--Photographs Dam construction--California--Tuolumne County Hoisting machinery Railroads--California--Tuolumne County Quarrying--California--Tuolumne County Steam shovels Railroad locomotives--California--Tuolumne County Forge shops--California--Tuolumne County Pumps 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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