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Snow covering construction site, Masonry Dam, January 9, 1913

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Title Snow covering construction site, Masonry Dam, January 9, 1913
Creator Unknown
Date 1913
Description The Masonry Dam on the Cedar River, completed in 1914, was built by Seattle City Light and located between the old 1904 crib dam and the powerhouse at Cedar Falls. It was intended to enlarge the Cedar Lake basin and store additional water for the generating equipment of the Cedar Falls hydroelectric plant.

601. Masonry Dam. Snow covered dam site, 1-19-13

PH Coll 46.11b
Coverage United States--Washington (State)--Cedar River (King County)--Masonry Dam
Subject Snow--Washington (State)--Cedar River (King County); Building sites--Washington (State)--Cedar River (King County); Dams--Washington (State)--Cedar River (King County)--Design and construction; Masonry Dam (Wash.); Seattle City Light
Relation Seattle Power and Water Supply Collection
Source University of Washington Libraries. Special Collections Division Hiram C. Gill Photograph Album. PH Coll 46
Type Photograph
Format silver gelatin, b&w Scanned from a photographic print using a Microtek Scanmaker 9600XL at 150 dpi in JPEG format at compression rate 3 and resized to 768x600 ppi. 2005
Identifier http://content.lib.washington.edu/u?/ww-swps,70

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