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- Photographs of intake pipes to R.C. Harris Filtration Plant
Photographs of intake pipes to R.C. Harris Filtration Plant
subseries1932-1933Fonds 200 > Series 372 > Subseries 36
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Three-way distributor (end view)
Three-way distributor (side view)
Three-way distributor (end view)
Three-way distributor (side view)
Three-way distributor (end view)
Guniting intake pipe - gun in operation
Guniting intake pipe - gun not in operation
Welding operations - Toronto Iron Works
Welding operations - Toronto Iron Works
Welding operations - Toronto Iron Works
Intake distributor - suspended over Lake
Intake distributor - lowered into water
Intake distributor - lowered into water
Distributor bulkhead
Intake pipe reinforcing
Intake pipe gunited
Sounding float
Sounding float: Plant as seen from shore
Sounding float: Plant from pipeline
Sounding float: Scarboro and Tow moving pipe into line
Sounding float: Fixing guide cables
Attaching tape for line and level: Fixing guide cables
Lowering pipe into position
Intake T
Intake T
Intake T
Intake T
Intake
Butterfly valve
Copy of Toronto Water Works plan for proposed intake at Victoria Park, May 1926
Intake pipe - concrete cased and gunite lined
Butterfly valve
Butterfly valve
Butterfly valve
Butterfly valve - mechanism
Last section
Last section
Last section - at foot of Spadina Avenue
Group of workmen on the "Scarboro"
The "Leland" backfilling
Intake being lowered into place
Intake being lowered into place - diver in water
Intake submerging
Intake submerging
Where
Not on the map yet.
- Held by
- City of Toronto Archives via City of Toronto Archives
- Dates
- 1932-1933 (indexed as 1932–1933)
- Level
- subseries
- Extent
- 44 photographs : b&w ; 13 x 18 cm and smaller; 44 photographs : b&w negatives ; 13 x 18 cm and smaller
- Scope & content
- Subseries consists of photographs documenting the construction, installation, and structure of the intake pipes that carry raw lake water into the R.C. Harris Filtration Plant for purification and distribution. Photographs are arranged chronologically.
- Location
No place found in this description yet.
- Subjects
- Toronto (Ont.). Dept. of Works; R.C. Harris Water Treatment Plant (Toronto, Ont.); FILTRATION PLANTS; CONSTRUCTION; CONSTRUCTION MACHINERY; WATER SUPPLY
- Harvested
- 2026-10-22T05:25:59Z · source datestamp n/a · toronto