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Big Creek, Shaver Lake Dam

Description: Big Creek, Shaver Lake Dam - Looking south across Stevenson Creek in the excavation for the Shaver Dam. The Marion electric #32 shovel is in the foreground, with our recently purchased Bucyrus on top of the bench across Stevenson Creek channel. Please note the expoxure of good rock underneath the bucyrus shovel.
Type: Visual Materials(Opens in new tab)
Date: 8/2/1926
Call number: photCL SCE 02 - 14036
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Big Creek, Shaver Lake Dam
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Big Creek, Shaver Lake Dam - Looking south across excavation for the Shaver Dam. In this view five shovels can be seen, all in operation. The first one at the bottom of the picture is our gasoline Northwest 1, the next one is our new Marion electric #37; our electric Marion #32 is working near the Stevenson Creek channel, and beyond is the Bucyrus, with our Marion Steam shovel #21 in the extreme southern end of the excavation with just the end of the boom and top of the cab showing.
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Big Creek, Shaver Lake Dam - A close-up of the Bucyrus shovel which we recently purchased and which is being served with Plymouth gasoline locomotoive.
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Big Creek, Shaver Lake Dam - [Bucyrus shovel is noted in logbook but shot is of workers in Shaver Tunnel.] .
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Big Creek, Shaver Lake Dam - [Shot IDd in logbook as a Bucyrus Shovel, but it's a Tunnel Mucker in Shaver Tunnel.].
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Big Creek, Shaver Lake Dam - [Bucyrus shovel is noted in logbook but shot shows a Tunnel mucker in a tunnel.].
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Big Creek, Shaver Lake Dam - Looking across main channel of Stevenson Creek towards foundation on south side, showing general cleanup of bottom between Stevenson Creek channel and higher part of foundation. The piles of rock noticed in the picture are to be distributed into the concrete when this particuloar section is poured.
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