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Identifier: sanfrancwat4192581930spri (find matches)
Title: San Francisco water
Year: 1922 (1920s)
Authors: Spring Valley Water Company (San Francisco, Calif.)
Subjects: Water-supply
Publisher: San Francisco, Calif. : Spring Valley Water Co.
Contributing Library: San Francisco Public Library
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Above: A general view of Calaveras Dam, showing on the left Observation Hill scarred and borrow-pitted by the excavation of material for the construction of the dam. The rock-facing designed toprevent sloughing of the earth is laid in a series of arches. Below: The outlet tower surmounting theshaft that houses the control gates. The causeway leads from a circle of formal architectural treatment.The tower was styled in reminiscence of the Sunol Water Temple. SAN FRANCISCO WATER
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Here the camera records an unusual bit of water-supply installation—the laying of a submarine pipeacross the Channel at Fourth Street, San Francisco. This pipe has flexible joints which enable it toaccommodate itself to the uneven bottom. The length is 250 feet, and there are several angles. Thepipe was put together on pontoons and lowered into place by derricks. The function of this pipe isto reinforce the water supply of the industrial district. 10 SAN FRANCISCO WATER April, 1926 The Cjfog in Prose and Poetry By Alexander McAdie (During the winter just passed the fog was anunusually persistent visitor to the coast and thegreat valley of northern and central California.There were times when dwellers in the great do-main that stretches from Sacramento to Fresnosuspected that the fog had come to stay. On theinside front cover of this issue of San FranciscoWater there is an excerpt from Charles WarrenStoddard glorifying the fog. Here are two studiesof the fog by a former San Francisca

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  • bookyear:1922
  • bookdecade:1920
  • bookcentury:1900
  • bookauthor:Spring_Valley_Water_Company__San_Francisco__Calif__
  • booksubject:Water_supply
  • bookpublisher:San_Francisco__Calif____Spring_Valley_Water_Co_
  • bookcontributor:San_Francisco_Public_Library
  • booksponsor:California_State_Library_Califa_LSTA_Grant
  • bookleafnumber:134
  • bookcollection:americana
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