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Chutes and Flumes

Power Dam

Available Images: Full Size
Accession Number: AII14
Category: Lumbering; Chutes / Flumes
Description: Construction of the dam is almost complete. The wooden flume, used by the mills to keep their sawlogs moving down river without being damaged, is seen at centre-right, from head-on.
Date: 1918
Source: PSPL
Physical Attributes: 8cm x 12.5cm; b/w photograph
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Keywords: chutes; flumes; aqueduct; conduit; logs; sawlog; lumber; timber; operations; river; drive; water; transporting; dam; shaft; slide; Seguin; process; waterway; streams; creeks; steer;
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