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184-19A - Print, Photographic
Flooding of Russian River at Basalt Gravel, 1937 View across flooded Russian River to Basalt Gravel guarry bridges and equipment. December 1937
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184-8A - Print, Photographic
Russian River flooding at Basalt Gravel Co., 1937 Dec. 7, 1937. Flood of office and yard at Basalt Gravel Co. Duplicate photo 184-11A
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199-183a - Print, Photographic
Basalt Gravel Co. during flood of Russian River, 12/31/64.
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199-192a - Print, Photographic
Memorial Beach Dam from West side looking East toward Basalt Rock Co.; Tribune photo12/31/64.
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2005.01.004 - Print, Photographic
Basalt Rock co.?, December 1965 Photo appeared in Empire Living section of Press Democrat
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2005.01.005 - Print, Photographic
Basalt Rock Co., August 1965 Newspaper article on back of photo: "Asphalt Plant - Located at the Basalt Plant here is an asphalt mixing facility in which liquid asphalt is combined with the right amount of gravel for each specific job and dumped into the waiting truck below. Concrete is also readied in a similar way and mixed en route to the job by the company's transit mix truck."
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2005.01.007 - Print, Photographic
"Russian River supplies raw materials for huge Basalt Plant operations here", August 1965 Newspaper article affixed to rear of photo: "Loading Freight Cars - railroad cars are piled high with rock and gravel on the siding at the Basalt plant here, ready for shipment throughout California. In earlier days as many as 50 rail cars per day were shipped from the plant, but since the great increase in trucking service, the number of cars has dwind...
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2005.01.009 - Print, Photographic
"Russian River supplies raw materials for huge Basalt Plant operations here", August 1965 Newspaper article affixed to rear of photo: "Walking the Drag Line - 'Huge' doesn't adequately describe the 600-ton drag line which extracts sand and gravel from the river bed for Basalt's Healdsburg plant. Pontoons on the side are lowered allowing the machine to 'walk' to a new location when it is necessary to move. It is taken to high ground and tied...
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2005.01.010 - Print, Photographic
"Russian River supplies raw materials for huge Basalt Plant operations here", August 1965 Newspaper article affixed to rear of photo: "Operator's Eye View - Looking over the shoulder of the operator of basalt's huge walking drag line. The shovel is shown dropping its 12-tons of gravel that just lifted from the river bed. It will dredge up to 750 tons per hour."
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2005.01.011 - Print, Photographic
"Russian River supplies raw materials for huge Basalt Plant operations here", August 1965 Newspaper article affixed to rear of photo: "Conveyor Close-up - Up and over the rocks as they progress along the conveyor system at the basalt plant. They are sized automatically and placed in separate piles for later delivery to the job."
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2005.01.012 - Print, Photographic
"Russian River supplies raw materials for huge Basalt Plant operations here", August 1965 Newspaper article affixed to rear of photo: "Maze of conveyors - A tremendous network of conveyors transport sand and gravel to various depositories at the Basalt plant in Healdsburg from where they are carried by an underground system to loading stations. Trucks pull under the storage tanks, load up and deliver the materials to jobs throughout northern...
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2005.01.013 - Print, Photographic
"Russian River supplies raw materials for huge Basalt Plant operations here", August 1965 Newspaper article affixed to rear of photo: "Screening Plant - Part of mechanism which screens the raw sand and gravel into various sizes at the Basalt facility here is shown, with conveyors leading to and from surrounding piles of material. Twenty-five different sizes and grades of rocks and sand are produced during the year-round operation. Constant ...
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2005.01.020 - Print, Photographic
Basalt rescuing dozer from river, June 1965 Newspaper article affixed to rear of photo: "It's a Dozer - Up she comes... 'bow' high. No construction job was ever like this."
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2005.01.023 - Print, Photographic
Basalt Rock Co., December 1965 Newspaper article affixed to rear: "Skyline Operation - This is what happens when the river starts rising every fall. Basalt's trucks take to the horizon. On the crown of the tremendous stockpile of gravel along the river is a power shovel. Here, hour after hour, trucks transfer the inventory accumulated during the summer, to the processing plant to the north where sand, dirt, and gravel are separated. For t...
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2005.01.034 - Print, Photographic
Basalt Gravel Yards - Tribune Photograph, 1965, 12 ton truck
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