Pacific Sugar Refinery, corner 8th [i.e. Eighth] & Harrison Sts., ca. 1860s. Waterfront being filled in by hauling sand from the sandhills by trains and dumping it to make shoreline. D. Hewes Steam Paddy Works, one of first steam shovels used to fill dump-cars, called "paddy works" because it did the work of the old-time Irish ("Paddy") laborers. :82

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Pacific Sugar Refinery, corner 8th [i.e. Eighth] & Harrison Sts., ca. 1860s. Waterfront being filled in by hauling sand from the sandhills by trains and dumping it to make shoreline. D. Hewes Steam Paddy Works, one of first steam shovels used to fill dump-cars, called "paddy works" because it did the work of the old-time Irish ("Paddy") laborers.

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UC Berkeley, Bancroft Library