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Description
Plates in: Photographs, Strawberry Dam, Philadelphia Ditch, original construction, 1912-1916, photograph album, page 79. Nine panels mounted on canvas: panels 1-3. Model 20 Marion loading a rock train (shows spillway of old timber dam, drill sharpening shop, concrete quarry) -- panel 4-5. Shows rock pile from Quarry No. 1 and the tendency for the large rock to go to the bottom of the pile leaving the fines at the top of the pile (slopes have been outlined in white ink) -- panel 6. Quarry No. 2 trestle has been removed by fire to clear the dam foundation for the large shot to be fired on the right bank -- panels 7-8. Shows right bank of dam foundation before firing large shot above the crest of dam on right hand side -- panel 9. After cooler shown in the foreground was removed for large shot. 2010-0272. 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 ; 5 1/2 x 39 3/4 in.
Identifier
(C)001433519CSL01-Aleph
Language
English
Subject
Sierra and San Francisco Power Company--Photographs Dam construction--California--Tuolumne County Quarrying--California--Tuolumne County Steam shovels Railroads--California--Tuolumne County Blasting--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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