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Three brown leather-bound photograph albums contain 232 gelatin silver prints with handwritten captions and dates in silver. The photographs record Spring Valley Water Company projects between 1918...
Show moreThree brown leather-bound photograph albums contain 232 gelatin silver prints with handwritten captions and dates in silver. The photographs record Spring Valley Water Company projects between 1918 and 1929 to expand San Francisco's water system to newly developed districts and improve the existing infrastructure to enable future construction and expansion. Some of the photographs were used in Spring Valley's quarterly magazine, "San Francisco Water," published between 1922 and 1930 when the company was purchased by the City and County of San Francisco. The photographs document workers performing a variety of jobs, including pipe-laying, pipe-fitting, welding, trench-digging and heavy-equipment operation.
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Show moreThree brown leather-bound photograph albums contain 232 gelatin silver prints with handwritten captions and dates in silver. The photographs record Spring Valley Water Company projects between 1918 and 1929 to expand San Francisco's water system to newly developed districts and improve the existing infrastructure to enable future construction and expansion. Some of the photographs were used in Spring Valley's quarterly magazine, "San Francisco Water," published between 1922 and 1930 when the company was purchased by the City and County of San Francisco. The photographs document workers performing a variety of jobs, including pipe-laying, pipe-fitting, welding, trench-digging and heavy-equipment operation.
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CONSTRUCTION VIEWS CITY DISTRIBUTING SYSTEM BOOK NO. 1 includes 106 photographs with captions and dates. The groups of photographs document the installation of brickwork and boilers at City Pumps,...
Show moreCONSTRUCTION VIEWS CITY DISTRIBUTING SYSTEM BOOK NO. 1 includes 106 photographs with captions and dates. The groups of photographs document the installation of brickwork and boilers at City Pumps, construction of the steel-and-concrete-reinforced division wall and the Francisco Street Reservoir, San Andreas Pipeline trench and pipe work underneath San Jose Avenue at Geneva, pipe repair in the Olympic Salt Water System, a proposed tank site in Lincoln Park, the partial collapse of the long wharf at Lake Merced and subsequent repair work, trench digging and pipe lowering on Faxon Avenue near Lakeview, pipe replacement at the Hebrew Orphan Asylum, and the water temple in Sunol designed by Willis Polk. The album also contains photo documentation of a break in a water main below the junction of Haight and Market Streets on December 28, 1920, including underground photos of the damaged pipework and bracing and one above-ground photo that shows the intersection, trolley cars, and pedestrians. The captions under the photos dated January 6, 1921, place blame for the Spring Valley Water Company pipe break on improper construction of the Haight Street electric car line tracks. Some of the photographs were used in Spring Valley's quarterly magazine, "San Francisco Water," published between 1922 and 1930 when the company was purchased by the City and County of San Francisco. The photographs document workers performing a variety of jobs, including pipe-laying, pipe-fitting, welding, trench-digging and heavy-equipment operation.
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Show moreCONSTRUCTION VIEWS CITY DISTRIBUTING SYSTEM BOOK NO. 1 includes 106 photographs with captions and dates. The groups of photographs document the installation of brickwork and boilers at City Pumps, construction of the steel-and-concrete-reinforced division wall and the Francisco Street Reservoir, San Andreas Pipeline trench and pipe work underneath San Jose Avenue at Geneva, pipe repair in the Olympic Salt Water System, a proposed tank site in Lincoln Park, the partial collapse of the long wharf at Lake Merced and subsequent repair work, trench digging and pipe lowering on Faxon Avenue near Lakeview, pipe replacement at the Hebrew Orphan Asylum, and the water temple in Sunol designed by Willis Polk. The album also contains photo documentation of a break in a water main below the junction of Haight and Market Streets on December 28, 1920, including underground photos of the damaged pipework and bracing and one above-ground photo that shows the intersection, trolley cars, and pedestrians. The captions under the photos dated January 6, 1921, place blame for the Spring Valley Water Company pipe break on improper construction of the Haight Street electric car line tracks. Some of the photographs were used in Spring Valley's quarterly magazine, "San Francisco Water," published between 1922 and 1930 when the company was purchased by the City and County of San Francisco. The photographs document workers performing a variety of jobs, including pipe-laying, pipe-fitting, welding, trench-digging and heavy-equipment operation.
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