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Big Creek, Shaver Lake Dam
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Big Creek, Shaver Lake Dam - Looking upstream at downstream side of dam (note stairway)
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Big Creek, Shaver Lake Dam - Looking upstream at downstream side of dam (note stairway) - Status of construction early in second season. (Temporary concrete handling ramp to auxiliary chuting towers shown bracketed to completed concrete). Entrance to inspection tunnel, and sluice pipe are in left foreground.
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Big Creek, Shaver Lake Dam - Shaver Lake Dam - Pouring foundation
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Big Creek, Shaver Lake Dam - Shaver Lake Dam - Pouring foundation. South abutment excavation, early concrete work, and construction plant for Shaver Dam in the fall of 1926. Mixing plant and aggregate handling trestle in middle foreground. Single-compartment chuting towers at right and left. Double-compartment tower in center. (B458)
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Big Creek, Florence Lake Dam
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Big Creek, Florence Lake Dam - View from about 500 feet upstream and looking N, showing plant and construction for river section of dam. (The derrick shown in the center foreground was used for handling all heavy construction material, particularly gates and racks. The East or river section chuting tower and mixing plant are at left center. Top of west chuting tower and mast for aggregate plant derrick can be seen in background. Angle buttress 49 shown to left of mixing plant.
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Big Creek, Shaver Lake Dam - Showing the boom plant on double compartment Lakewood Tower
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Big Creek, Shaver Lake Dam - Showing the boom plant on double compartment Lakewood Tower. - Status of construction, center portion of Shaver Dam at end of first concreting season. (Panel form system is shown.) .
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Big Creek, Shaver Lake Dam
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Big Creek, Shaver Lake Dam - View of Shaver Dam, showing particularly Section 18, which was left low when work was stopped late in 1926 and to allow for spillway. This section is now being brought up along with the others but will be kept four feet lower for a while. The track running up along the face of the dam lengthwise of the picture is the one over which concrete will be supplied to one of the towers not shown in the picture and which tower will be out of reach of the chuting system. .
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Big Creek, Shaver Lake Dam - Looking South across central section of Shaver Lake Dam - showing upstream face
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Big Creek, Shaver Lake Dam - Looking South across central section of Shaver Lake Dam - showing upstream face. - View from upstream side North end, showing status of construction during middle of second construction season. Form work for upper half of inspection gallery shown in center of nearest concrete block.
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