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1. Almost Across, 1888 - Album, Photograph

   Almost Across, 1888. Sepia photograph shows a barge on the water of San Francisco Bay. The barge has two tall masts crossed at the top to form a triangle and a raised area with two "slides" extending from it. The barge carries lengths of pipe and about a dozen workers. Black ink caption below photograph reads, "View of Barge near west shore of Bay "Almost Across" / after laying two lines 16" pipe 6400 ft from shore to shore. Greatest depth 60 f...

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2. Blasting Hard Ground near Belmont, late 19th century - Album, Photograph

   Blasting Hard Ground near Belmont, late 19th century. Sepia photograph shows five men in the right foreground, standing on the side of a road. They hold sticks extending into the ground. Behind them, in the left background of the photo, are a tree and several more men doing the same kind of work. Blue pen caption above photo reads "OLD COUNTY ROAD NEAR BELMONT" and black pen caption below photo reads "Blasting hard ground near Belmont Cal. P. Lin...

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3. Crystal Springs Dam Boilers, 1888 - Album, Photograph

   Crystal Springs Dam Boilers, 1888. Sepia-toned photograph shows two levels of wooden structures, the upper one on the right and level with the camera, the lower one to the left and below. On the upper level are two horse-drawn carts and several workers in the background; on the lower level is a man pushing a trolley of barrels on a track. Underneath the upper level are several barrels and broken pieces of equipment. Pink pen caption above photo r...

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4. Crystal Springs Line over Hills, 1888 - Album, Photograph

   Crystal Springs Line over Hills, 1888. Sepia photograph shows land bordering the San Francisco Bay. The water of the bay is on the left side of the photograph, with land curving around it. In the foreground is a collection of small buildings surrounded by a wooden fence, and in the background, stretching behind the water, are distant hills. The land in the middle is flat and mostly empty. "BRISBANE 1888" is written in pink ballpoint pen below the...

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5. Crystal Springs Reservoir, 1888 - Album, Photograph

   Crystal Springs Reservoir, 1888. Sepia-toned photograph shows the Crystal Springs Dam under construction. In the foreground, at least two dozen workers stand on the wooden walkway of the dam's lower portion; some stand in slightly lower platforms. Behind them is the upper portion of the dam, a skeletal framework. Near the bottom left corner is a white number 8. Pink pen caption above photo reads "CRYSTAL SPRINGS RESERVOIR 1888."

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6. Digging Ditch (1000 Feet per Day), 1888 - Album, Photograph

   Digging Ditch (1000 Feet per Day), 1888. Sepia photograph shows a line of workers with pickaxes and shovels digging an approx. 5 feet deep ditch, running from the photo's bottom right corner to middle left edge. A supervisor stands above the ditch. Behind the ditch are a fence and some trees. Pink pen caption above photo reads "EL CAMINO REAL 1888 SAN MATEO"; black pen caption below photo reads "Digging Ditch (1000 ft. per day) Cal P. line."

   Record Type: Photo

   
7. Digging Pipe Ditch, c. 1890 - Album, Photograph

   Digging Pipe Ditch, c. 1890. Sepia photograph shows several small teams of horses and men along the side of an empty road. The horses are harnessed to plows, and mounds of upturned earth line the side of the road. Blue pen caption above photo reads "FROM WHAT IS NOW HILLSDALE LOOKING TOWARD SAN MATEO 1890+/-"; black pen caption below photo reads "Digging Pipe Ditch."

   Record Type: Photo

   
8. Dumbarton Point, late 19th century - Album, Photograph

   Dumbarton Point, late 19th century. Sepia photograph shows Dumbarton Point from the San Francisco Bay. Water covers the bottom half of the photograph. Above the water line, a cluster of wooden buildings, docks, and a tower with a ladder leading to the top are visible. Black ink caption below the photograph reads, "Dumbarton Point. East side of Bay."

   Record Type: Photo

   
9. End View of Barge showing Pipes in Chutes, 1888 - Album, Photograph

   End View of Barge showing Pipes in Chutes, 1888. Sepia photograph shows two long pipes in downward-sloping chutes on board a barge. About a dozen workers pose behind the chute on the right. Black ink caption at the bottom reads, "End View of Barge showing Pipes in Shutes [sic]. Submarine work."

   Record Type: Photo

   
10. Filling Pipe Ditch with Road Scrapers, 1888 - Album, Photograph

    Filling Pipe Ditch with Road Scrapers, 1888. Sepia photograph shows a team of eight horses pulling a cart alongside a ditch on the side of a road. Two men stand on the cart while a third stands on the ground beside the horses. Behind them is a fence and several trees. A pink pen caption at the top reads "NEAR SAN MATEO 1888" and a black pen caption at the bottom reads "Filling Pipe Ditch with Road Scrapers Calaveras Line."

    Record Type: Photo

    
11. General View of Construction of Crystal Springs Dam, 1888 - Album, Photograph

    General View of Construction of Crystal Springs Dam, 1888. Sepia photograph shows the construction of the Crystal Springs Dam looking down on the work site from an elevated view across a gorge. Trestlework fills the image with several walkways at center and a higher trestle on the left-hand side. Multiple workers are visible on the walkways moving small wheelbarrows and many can be seen clustered at the base of the trestle on the left. The number...

    Record Type: Photo

    
12. Hand Excavation on Crystal Springs Dam, 1888 - Album, Photograph

    Hand Excavation on Crystal Springs Dam, 1888. Sepia-toned photograph shows several workers, two on the ground and the rest on wooden scaffolding about ten feet above. They stand in a hallway of sorts that has been carved into the side of a hill. Pink pen caption above photo reads "CRYSTAL SPRINGS DAM 1888 / HAND EXCAVATION TO KEY DAM INTO CANYON WALLS."

    Record Type: Photo

    
13. Handheld Boxcar Mover, c. 1920s - Mover, Rail Car

    Handheld Boxcar Mover, c. 1920s. The Thurman Smith Boxcar Mover was used to hand move boxcars on railway lines. It consists of a long wooden pole which tapers at either end. One tapered end is fed into a metal fitting which has oval shaped holes on its sides. Attached to the metal fitting by a nut and bolt is an angled metal pivot. Used by all four companies that occupied the same site in San Carlos: Kelly-Pickering Chemical Factory, Spencer-Ke...

    Record Type: Object

    
14. Interior Views of Risdon Iron Works,1884 - Album, Photograph

    Interior Views of Risdon Iron Works, 1884. Print of four sepia photographs, arranged at slight angles around central text, all on a dark brown background. The top left photo shows the punching and rolling department, a room full of various machinery lying low on the floor. The top right photo shows the calking department, with rows of oversize metal tubes. The bottom left photograph shows the erecting shop, with various small machinery including ...

    Record Type: Photo

    
15. Pipe on Trestle Work, late 19th century - Album, Photograph

    Pipe on Trestle Work, late 19th century. Sepia photograph shows a trestle under construction, running horizontally across the photo with the left side more in the foregroud than the right. Trestle is wooden and holds a large metal pipe. The pipe is partially enclosed by wood; on the parts where the pipe is exposed, it has narrow supports extending around it at intervals. One worker sits on the exposed pipe. Black pen caption at the bottom reads "...

    Record Type: Photo

    
16. Risdon Iron Works Hydraulic Riveting Machines, 1884 - Album, Photograph

    Risdon Iron Works Hydraulic Riveting Machines, 1884. Sepia photograph shows a room with industrial equipment including three hydraulic riveting machines. The machines consist of a vertical pole with a cross-piece attached, chains, and a large pulley.

    Record Type: Photo

    
17. Risdon Iron Works Punching and Rolling Department, 1884 - Album, Photograph

    Risdon Iron Works Punching and Rolling Department, 1884. Sepia-toned photograph shows a large room, the foreground in shadow, the rest of the room in light streaming down from the partially open ceiling. Tables and machinery line the floor. In the foreground is some kind of metal roller that looks like a spool for thread. Just beyond this roller are grooves in the floor for a cart or trolley, and beyond the grooves is additional machinery.

    Record Type: Photo

    
18. Riveting Pipes in Ditch, Chrystal Springs Line Adjoining Bay, 1888 - Album, Photograph

    Riveting Pipes in Ditch, Chrystal Springs Line Adjoining Bay, 1888. Sepia photograph shows workers digging and installing pipes in a shallow ditch. The ditch runs from the left side of the photograph into the foreground and bottom right corner. The ditch is located on a hill that slopes gently downward into the San Francisco Bay in the background of the photogrpah at top right. Above the photograph a caption written in pink ballpoint pen reads, "...

    Record Type: Photo

    
19. Transporting Pipes to Ditch near Belmont Calaveras Line, late 19th century - Album, Photograph

    Transporting Pipes to Ditch near Belmont Calaveras Line, late 19th century. Sepia photograph shows a wooden barge on San Francisco Bay or a connected waterway. Barge has a low white building near its bow and a smaller structure at its stern; "PORT COSTA" is written on the smaller structure. Two workers stand at the stern and one stands at the bow. The barge is loaded with lengths of metal pipe, lying horizontally. In the foreground, on land, is a...

    Record Type: Photo

    
20. Unloading Pipes from Steamer near Belmont, late 19th century - Album, Photograph

    Unloading Pipes from Steamer near Belmont, late 19th century. Sepia photograph shows a pile of large iron pipes being unrolled from a steam barge onto scrubby land. Behind and to the left of the pipes is the barge, its main white structures at its bow and stern visible. A caption in black pen below the photo reads "Unloading Pipes from Steamer, near Belmont" and "Cal. P. Line."

    Record Type: Photo

    
21. Untitled [Concrete Blocks in Crystal Springs Dam], 1888 - Album, Photograph

    Untitled [Concrete Blocks in Crystal Springs Dam], 1888. Sepia photograph shows a group of workers preparing concrete blocks for the construction of the Crystal Springs Dam. The workers stand in a structure with an open beam roof surrounded by large slabs. One worker sprays the ground with a water hose and the others hold brooms or pickaxes. Through the open roof, a building can be seen on the side of a hill at upper left and the top of a trestle...

    Record Type: Photo

    
22. Untitled [Crystal Springs Dam 1888] - Album, Photograph

    Untitled [Crystal Springs Dam 1888]. Sepia photograph shows 14 men and one boy posing for a group photograph on a path in front of the Crystal Springs Dam. The men wear suits and appear in two rows with the back row standing and the front row sitting. An incomplete wooden trestle appears in the background. "CRYSTAL SPRINGS DAM / -1888-" is handwritten above the photograph with pink ballpoint pen. An inscription on the back of copy print A-71-...

    Record Type: Photo

    
23. Untitled [Crystal Springs Dam], 1888 - Album, Photograph

    Untitled [Crystal Springs Dam], 1888. Sepia photograph shows the Crystal Springs dam under construction. A large wooden trestle arcs across the top half of the image in the background. A large pipe extends out from the side of the hill at bottom with a group of six workers nearby. The number "53" appears left of center in the round opening of the pipe at bottom. The caption, "-1888- / -CRYSTAL SPRINGS DAM-" is handwritten above the photograph i...

    Record Type: Photo

    
24. Untitled [Crystal Springs Dam Construction], 1888 - Album, Photograph

    Untitled [Crystal Springs Dam Construction], 1888. Sepia photograph shows early construction of the Crystal Springs Dam. A partially constructed trestle appears in the foreground leading to a building on a hillside at upper right. The number "51" appears at bottom center in the image. Pink ink caption at the top of the photo reads "FAL[S]E WORK FOR CONSTRUCTION OF CRYSTAL SPRINGS DAM IN 1888."

    Record Type: Photo

    
25. Untitled [Crystal Springs Dam Construction], late 19th century - Album, Photograph

    Untitled [Crystal Springs Dam Construction], late 19th century. Sepia photograph shows the Crystal Springs Dam construction in progress. A wooden framework for the dam appears at center with a shallow pool visible at its base. A wooden trestle appears in the distance at upper right, which leads to a building on a hill. The number "54" appears left of center in the bottom of the image.

    Record Type: Photo