Series 1: Hetch Hetchy water supply project records 1915-1947
Subseries 1.1: General records 1915-1947
Aqueduct tunnels 1915-1918
Mile Rock Sewerage Tunnel, Alameda Creek-Arroyo Honda Tunnel, and Hetch Hetchy Railroad blueprints 1915-1922
Miscellaneous construction records 1919-1937
Engineering formulas 1925
Yosemite Power Company's application before the Federal Power Commission to use the Tuolumne River and studies and surveys of Tuolumne River watershed 1926-1929
Hetch Hetchy water supply project blueprints 1926-1929
Proposed standby reservoirs in San Francisco (Amazon, Balboa Park, and Glen Park reservoir) 1926-1930
Speaker's Manual for Water Bonds Campaign report 1928
San Francisco Department of Public Works correspondence and photographs 1928-1936
Analyses of tunnel sections 1929
Contract No. 120 for Furnishing and Delivering a Portable Gravel Plant (Specification No. 17848) 1929
Bowman Dam photographs taken by M.M. O'Shaughnessy 1929
High Early Strength Cement Tests on the Hetch Hetchy project 1929-1934
Campbell, Peterson and Company, Inc., correspondence 1930
Memorandum and photographs of the inspection trip taken by Ray L. Allin and P.J. Ost over the Foothill and Mountain Divisions 1930
Hydrostatic Tests on Hume Steel Cylinder Concrete Pipe report and photographs of load tests on concrete pipes 1930-1931
Hetch Hetchy water supply construction reports for fiscal years 1931-32 and 1932-33 1931-1933
Turlock Modesto water shortage 1931
Unidentified photograph of mountain foothills and buildings undated
Contract No. 124 for Grading and Surfacing the Mather-Hetch Hetchy Road (Specification No. 18,472) 1931
Contract No. 130 for Furnishing and Delivering Power Transformers for Seco Substation (Specification No. 18,538) 1931
Proposal for furnishing and delivering a plant for handling bulk cement 1931
Miscellaneous cost estimates, soil survey reports, and inter-departmental memorandums from M. M. O'Shaughnessy, and photographs of the Mountain Division inspection 1931-1932
Pipe coating tests report 1932
Diagram of Spring Valley System 1932
Specifications and costs for grout sand and cement 1932
Byron Jackson Company Special Pumps report and drawings 1932
Contract No. 170 for Constructing Cottages at Moccasin and Priest (Federal Works Project 1130-5) 1937
Contract No. 173 for Constructing a Cottage at O'Shaughnessy Dam 1937
Tabulation of bids for the construction of a pipe line undated
Surface Protection of Iron and Steel Pipe with Petrolastic Cement report and photographs undated
Summary of steel pipe projects with photographs 1937
Specifications for Furnishing and Delivering Vertical Low Lift Drainage Pumps, Airport Department, City and County of San Francisco Public Utilities Commission 1940
Contract No. 193, Surfacing Roadways at Moccasin, Priest, and Early Intake 1947
Subseries 1.2: Project records 1916-1944
Lower Cherry River
Contract No. 12 for Furnishing and Delivering Hydraulic Machinery and Equipment, Lower Cherry River Power Development (Specifications No. 12497) 1916
Contract No. 13 for Furnishing and Delivering Electric Generators and Exciters, Lower Cherry River Power Development (Specifications No. 12498) 1916
Contract No. 127 for the Construction of Steel Pipe in the Lower Cherry Aqueduct (Specifications No. 18,498) 1931
Priest Dam
Contract for Services: Board of Public Works and W. A. Kramer, Resolution No. 71,270 (Second Series) December 5, 1921
Pulgas Pumping Plant and Tunnel
Contract No. 85 for the Construction of the Pulgas Tunnel (Specifications No. 14623) 1922
Contract No. 87 for the Construction of Concrete Abutments and Piers for the Sixbit Gulch Bridge of the Hetch Hetchy Railroad (Specifications No. 14656) 1922
Contract No. 94 for Furnishing, Delivering and Installing Centrifugal Pumps (Specifications No. 14927) 1924
Stevenson Creek Dam
"Test on Stevenson Creek Dam" by William A. Slater 1926
Upper Alameda Creek Diversion Dam
Upper Alameda Creek Diversion Dam estimates, notes, and drawings 1931
Early Intake Tail Race Pipe Line
Early Intake Gatestructure Concrete Details and Tail Race Pipe Line blueprints 1924
Contract No. 145 for the Construction of Early Intake Tail Race Pipe Line 1933
San Joaquin Pipe Line
Contract No. 123 for the Construction of the San Joaquin Pipe Line (Specifications No. 18,426) 1931
Contract No. 125 for Furnishing and Delivering Butterfly and Relief Valves for the San Joaquin Pipe Line (Specifications No. 18,494) 1931
Corral Hollow Pipe Line 1931
Contract No. 129 for the Construction of the Corral Hollow Pipe Line (Specifications No. 18,524) 1931
Contract No. 129 for the Construction of the Corral Hollow Pipe Line (Specifications No. 18,524) 1931-1932
Corral Hollow Pipe Line blueprints 1931
Corral Hollow Pipe Line records 1931-1932
Hetch Hetchy Aqueduct, Foothill Division, Red Mountain Bar Siphon
Main Aqueduct, Foothill Division, blueprints and Red Mountain Bar Siphon Wasteway blueprints 1929-1932
Contract No. 128 for the Construction of the Red Mountain Bar Siphon in the Foothill Division of the Hetch Hetchy Aqueduct (Specifications No. 18,473) 1931
Red Mountain Bar Siphon radial gate drawings 1932
Main Aqueduct, Foothill Division, Red Mountain Bar Siphon radial gate blueprints 1932
Sunol Storehouse
Contract No. 138 for the Construction of Sunol Storehouse 1932
Tesla Portal Chlorinating Plant, Hetch Hetchy Aqueduct
Contract No. 163 for Constructing the Tesla Portal Chlorinating Plant in the Coast Range Division of the Hetch Hetchy Aqueduct 1936
Specifications HH-166 for Furnishing and Installing Chlorine and Ammonia Equipment for the Tesla Portal Chlorinating Plant in the Coast Range Division of the Hetch Hetchy Aqueduct 1936
Crystal Springs Pipe Line No. 2
Specification for Manually Operated Gate Valves for the Crystal Springs Pipe Line No. 2 (P.W.A. Docket 1510-6d) 1935
Specification No. 112 for the Construction of the Crystal Springs Pipe Line No. 2, Crystal Springs Dam to Burlingame (Federal Public Works Docket 1510-5C) 1936
Specification No. 79 for the Construction of the Crystal Springs Pipe Line No. 2 from Millbrae to University Mound Reservoir (Federal Public Works Docket 1510-5B) 1936
Palo Alto Pipe Line
San Francisco Water Department Specification No. 156, Construction of the Palo Alto Pipe Line (San Mateo and Santa Clara Counties) 1937-1938
Hetch Hetchy Dam and Aqueduct, Coast Range Division and Mountain Division
Main Aqueduct, Mountain Division and Coast Range Division, blueprints 1918, 1925-1931
Contract No. 66 for Furnishing and Delivering 47 inch by 90 inch Sluice Gates for the Outlet System of the Hetch Hetchy Dam (Specifications No. 13982) 1919
Contract No. 67 for Furnishing and Delivering 33 inch by 42 inch Slide Gates for the Outlet System of the Hetch Hetchy Dam (Specifications No. 13983) 1919
Contract No. 68 for Furnishing and Delivering Five-foot Balanced Valves for the Outlet System of the Hetch Hetchy Dam (Specifications No. 13984) 1919
Contract No. 69 for Furnishing and Delivering Three-foot Balanced Valves for the Outlet System of the Hetch Hetchy Dam (Specifications No. 13985) 1919
Contract No. 110 for Making Core Borings Along and Near the Line of the Hetch Hetchy Aqueduct, Coast Range Division (Specifications No. 15817) 1926
Contract No. 126 for Hauling Cement, Sand and Gravel in the Coast Range Division of the Hetch Hetchy Aqueduct (Specification No. 18,495) 1931
Inspection of Tunnels and Appurtenances from Moccasin to Red Mountain Bar, Main Aqueduct, Foothill Division 1931
Coast Range Division Tunnels accounts 1931-1932
Contract No. 142 for the Construction of Pipe Lines in the Coast Range Division of the Hetch Hetchy Aqueduct (Alameda Creek Siphon and Tesla Portal Connection) 1933
Contract No. 146 for the Construction of Pipe Lines in the Coast Range Division of the Hetch Hetchy Aqueduct (Overflow Pipes from Alameda Creek Portals) 1933
External Load Test Measurements, Hetchy Hetchy Aqueduct, Coast Range Tunnels 1934
Hetch Hetchy Aqueduct, Bay Crossing Division
Contract No. 90 for the Construction of the Bay Crossing Pipe Line in the Bay Crossing Division of the Hetch Hetchy Aqueduct (Specifications No. 14851) 1923
Contract No. 92 for the Furnishing, Delivering and Driving of Test Piles Across San Francisco Bay at Dumbarton Straits (Specifications No. 14864) 1923
Contract No. 93 for Furnishing, Delivering and Erecting Steel Bridge Superstructures to Carry the Bay Crossing Pipe Line Across Dumbarton Straits (Specifications No. 14913) 1923
Contract No. 95 for Furnishing Materials and Constructing Substructures for the Steel Bridge Across Dumbarton Straits (Specifications No. 14951) 1923
Main Aqueduct, Bay Crossing Division, blueprints 1923 March-1924 April
Main Aqueduct, Bay Crossing Division, blueprints 1924 June-1924 July
Contract No. 96 for the Construction of Timber Trestles for the Bay Crossing Pipe Line, Hetch Hetchy Aqueduct (Specifications No. 14967) 1924
Contract No. 100 for Furnishing and Delivering Gate Valves for the Hetch Hetchy Aqueduct, Bay Crossing Division 1924
Contract No. 101 for Furnishing and Delivering Flexible Joint Cast Iron Pipe for Submarine Portions of the Hetch Hetchy Aqueduct, Bay Crossing Division (Specifications No. 15033) 1924
Contract No. 105 for the Construction of Submarine Pipe Lines at Dumbarton Strait and Newark Slough in the Bay Crossing Division of the Hetch Hetchy Aqueduct 1923-1924
Dumbarton Bridge Crossing blueprint 1924
Dumbarton Strait Submarine Pipe Line drawings, Main Aqueduct, Bay Crossing Division 1924
Cast Steel Pipe and Fittings for End Caisson contract records, Bay Crossing Division 1925
Main Aqueduct, Bay Crossing Division, blueprints 1925
Contract No. 137 for the Construction of a Pipe Line in the Bay Crossing Division of the Hetch Hetchy Aqueduct 1932
Bay Crossing Pipe Line No. 2
San Francisco Water Department Specifications for Hydraulic Motor Operated and Manually Operated Gate Valves for the Bay Crossing Pipe Line No. 2 (P.W.A. Docket 1510-6a) 1934
San Francisco Water Department Specification Number 46 for the Construction of the Bay Crossing Pipe Line No. 2 in Alameda and San Mateo Counties (Federal Public Works Project 1510) 1934
San Francisco Water Department Specification No. 52 for the Construction of the Timber Trestles for the Bay Crossing Pipe Line No. 2 in Alameda and San Mateo Counties (Federal Public Works Project 1510) 1934
San Francisco Water Department Specification No. 88 for the Construction of Valve Houses and Wood Covering for Pipe on Trestle for the Bay Crossing Pipe Line No. 2 in Alameda and San Mateo Counties (Federal Public Works Docket 1510-1E) 1935
San Francisco Water Department Specification No. 53 for the Construction of the Submarine Sections of the Bay Crossing Pipe Line No. 2 (Federal Public Works Project 1510-1C) 1935
Moccasin Creek
Moccasin Creek Power House reports, drawings, and correspondence 1922-1928
Contract No. 70 for Furnishing and Delivering Electric Traveling Crane for the Moccasin Creek Power Plant (Specifications No. 14725) 1922
Contract No. 79 for Furnishing and Delivering Water Wheels and Valves for the Moccasin Creek Power Plant (Specifications No. 14302) 1922
Contract No. 80 for Furnishing and Delivering Electric Generators and Accessory Equipment for the Moccasin Creek Power Plant (Specification No. 14303) 1922
Contract No. 81 for Furnishing and Delivering Transformers, Switchboards and Accessory Equipment for the Moccasin Creek Power Plant (Specifications No. 14336) 1922
Contract No. 78 for Furnishing and Delivering Electric Transmission Line Conductors for the Moccasin Creek Power Plant (Specifications No. 14764) 1923
Contract No. 82 for Furnishing, Delivering and Erecting Structural Steel Work for the Moccasin Creek Power House (Specifications No. 14763) 1923
Contract No. 89 for Furnishing and Delivering Steel Reinforced Aluminum Cable for the Moccasin Creek Power Plant (Specifications No. 14773) 1923
Contract No. 91 for Furnishing, Delivering and Installing Steel Penstocks and Accessories for the Moccasin Creek Power Plant (Specifications No. 14853) 1923
Contract No. 97 for Furnishing and Delivering Butterfly Valves for the Moccasin Creek Power Plant (Specifications No. 14984) 1923
Contract No. 98 for Furnishing and Delivering Electric Transmission Line Insulators for the Moccasin Creek Power Plant (Specifications No. 14996) 1923
Moccasin Creek Penstocks blueprints 1923
Moccasin Creek Power House blueprints 1923-1926
Moccasin Creek Power Tunnel blueprints 1924
Contract No. 119 for Furnishing and Delivering Outlet Gates and Appurtenances for the Moccasin Reregulating Reservoir (Specifications No. 17460) 1928
Moccasin Creek Reregulating Reservoir and Diversion Works blueprints 1929-1937
Moccasin Creek photographs 1931
Contract No. 143 for the Construction of Moccasin Sewage Disposal System 1933
Contract No. 169 for Constructing a Steel Footbridge at Moccasin Creek Reservoir 1937
Contract No. 172 for Furnishing and Installing Steel Liner Plates in Moccasin Diversion Conduit (Federal Works Project 1130-4) 1937
Moccasin Power House foundation drawings 1943-1944
O'Shaughnessy Dam Enlargement project
O'Shaughnessy Dam Stress-Strain Diagrams A-E, drawings of discharge of balanced valves, and laboratory report of specimens cut from O'Shaughnessy Dam 1930-1934
O'Shaughnessy Dam Enlargement records 1934-1937
O'Shaughnessy Dam Enlargement project blueprints 1934-1936
Contract H.H.W.S. No. 149 for the Enlargement of O'Shaughnessy Dam (Federal Public Works Project 1429-1) and miscellaneous records 1934-1937
H.H.W.S. Specifications No. 155 for Furnishing and Delivering 42-inch Plate Steel Pipe and Accessories (P.W.A. Docket No. 1429-2) 1935
Specifications HH-161 for Cast Iron Pier Plates, Cast Iron Pipe and Other Material Appurtenant to the Spillway of O'Shaughnessy Dam (P.W.A. Docket No. 1429-3) 1936
Specifications HH-162 For Steel Pier Plates for the O'Shaughnessy Spillway at O'Shaughnessy (P.W.A. Docket No. 1429-4) 1936
Specifications HH-165 for Furnishing and Delivering 72-inch Steel Plate Conduit Liners for the O'Shaughnessy Dam (P.W.A. Docket No. 1429-6) 1936
Contract H.H.W.S. No. 149 for the Enlargement of O'Shaughnessy Dam and miscellaneous records 1937-1938
Ocean Beach Esplanade records, City and County of San Francisco 1915-1921
Specifications No. 13833 and Proposals for Disposal of Garbage and Rubbish of the City and County of San Francisco, California 1918
Refuse Collection in the City and County of San Francisco 1919
Specification No. 13955, Army Street Retaining Wall, final report and photographs, City and County of San Francisco 1920
An Estimate of Construction Quantities With Supplemental Statement of Unit Costs for the Moffat Tunnel, Colorado 1923-1928
Municipal Railway System Contract No. 133 for the Construction of a Second Story to the Seventeenth Street Car Barn (Specifications No. 14667), City and County of San Francisco 1924
Olympic Club golf course report and photographs 1924
Bucks Creek Development, San Francisco (Feather River Power Company) 1925
Bucks Creek Power House, Diversion Reservoir, and Three Lakes Reservoir blueprints 1925
Bucks Creek Development blueprints 1925
Bucks Creek Development blueprints 1925
Madden Dam (Panama Canal) project records 1925-1932
East Bay Municipal Utility District Mokelumne River Project, Oakland, California 1926-1927
City of Los Angeles water project records 1930
City of Portland bulkhead wall project records 1927
Specifications for the Construction of the College Hill Tunnel Sewer, Section "K" of the North Point Main (Specifications No. 17952), City and County of San Francisco 1929
Other water project blueprints and drawings: Cushman Tunnel No. 2; Hoover Dam Cooling System; Mokelumne Power Development for the City of Lodi; and San Diego Outfall Sewer 1929-1940
Specifications for Furnishing and Erecting a Strauss Heel Trunnion Bascule Bridge, Including Superstructure, Substructure and Approaches over Channel Street Waterway at Third Street (Specifications No. 18,477), City and County of San Francisco 1931
Instructions and Data for a Proposal Covering an Irrigation Pump for Pump "A" for Maui Agricultural Company Limited (To Replace Their Number Three Pump), Paia, Maui 1931
City and County of San Francisco Public Utilities Commission, San Francisco Water Department Specification W.D. 41 for the Lakeview Hill Tunnel, City and County of San Francisco 1933
R.L. Allin memorandum and photographs of trip to Boulder Dam 1933
Specifications for the Construction of the Richmond Sewer Tunnel and Appurtenances (Specifications No. 18,942), City and County of San Francisco 1936
San Francisco Water Department Specification No. 110, Excavation and Embankment for the Sunset Reservoir (Federal Public Works Docket 1510-2B) 1936
San Francisco Water Department Specification No. 120 for the Construction of Concrete Lining, Roof and Control Works for Sunset Reservoir (Federal Public Works Docket 1510-2C) 1937
Specifications for the Construction of Richmond Connecting Sewer between Proposed Richmond-Sunset Sewage Treatment Plant and Forty-First Avenue and Fulton Street (Specifications No. 19,024), City and County of San Francisco 1937
Specifications for the Construction of the Richmond-Sunset Sewage Treatment Plant (Specifications No. 19,033), City and County of San Francisco 1937
Specifications for the Construction of the Primary Digester and Miscellaneous Equipment for the Richmond-Sunset Sewage Treatment Plant (Specifications No. 19,110), City and County of San Francisco 1938
Final Report (Personnel) for the Construction of the Richmond Sewer Tunnel and Appurtenances (Specification No. 18,942), City and County of San Francisco 1938
Department of the Interior, United States Reclamation Service, Roosevelt Dam sluicing gate drawings, Numbers 1-44, Salt River Project, Arizona 1905-1906
Department of the Interior, United States Geological Survey, Reclamation Service contract specifications and proposals for water projects 1906-1909
"A Modern Steam Power Central Station," reprinted from the Journal of Electricity, Power and Gas, San Francisco 1907-1908
Notes on foundations 1908
Department of the Interior, United States Reclamation Service specifications and proposals for water projects 1910-1912
Department of the Interior, United States Reclamation Service specifications and proposals for water projects 1913-1915
Engineering News journals and articles 1913-1930
Department of the Interior, United Stated Geological Survey, Professional Paper 86, "The Transportation of Debris By Running Water" by Grove Carl Gilbert 1914
Cambria Steel handbook with annotations by William Helbush 1914
United States Statutes at Large, Public Acts of the Sixty-Third Congress (Raker Act) 1913-1914
Department of the Interior, United States Reclamation Service specifications and proposals for water projects 1915-1916
Articles and notes on concrete 1915-1938
General Electric Company motor pricebook 1916
American International Shipbuilding Corporation diagrams and index to standards 1918-1919
Worthington Pump and Machinery Corporation publications 1918-1921
Blaw-Knox Company Transmission Towers 1920
State of California, Department of Public Works, Division of Engineering and Irrigation, bulletins nos. 1 and 2 1921-1922
State of California, Department of Public Works, Division of Water Rights rules and regulations governing the appropriation of water in California 1921-1922
The M.W. Kellogg Company publications on high pressure hydraulic pipe lines and high pressure and high temperature piping 1921-1924
Engineering bulletins on steel strength 1926-1927, 1941
Miscellaneous engineering publications 1926-1944
The American Institute of Mining and Metallurgical Engineers, technical publication no. 33, Commercial Forms and Applications of Aluminum and Aluminum Alloys 1927
River Murray Waters Act Hume Reservoir , Australia 1928
The American Society of Mechanical Engineers articles 1928-1929
A.O. Smith Corporation bulletins 1929
Department of Public Works, Bureau of Engineering, Standard Specifications 1929
Articles and bulletins on cement 1929-1938
Department of Metallurgy and Research, National Tube Company, Research Bulletin No. 10-A on soil corrosion May 1930
Department of Public Works annual report, pages 47-48 1930
Wire Engineering, vol. 1, no. 3, and vol. 1, no. 5 1931
City of Tacoma Department of Public Utilities specifications for horizontal pumps for Hood St. booster station 1931
The Irrepressible Conflict, Business vs. Finance by David Cushman Coyle 1932
Federal Emergency Administration of Public Works executive orders 1933
The Paraffine Companies, Inc. correspondence and specifications for Pabco pipe coverings 1933
Compressed Air Magazine, vol. 38, no. 4 1933
United States Department of the Interior, Bureau of Reclamation memorandum on cooling studies for Hoover Dam 1933
United States Department of the Interior, Bureau of Reclamation technical memorandum No. 341 on the cooling of concrete in Boulder Dam 1933
Portland Cement Association manuals 1935-1938
International Filter Co., Water Softening and Filtration Plants catalog for water purification equipment undated
"Theoretical Analysis of Arch Dams," chapter XXII undated
American Pipe Manual by American Cast Iron Pipe Co., Birmingham Alabama undated
Vixen Tool Company slide wheel undated