Visual Materials
Big Creek Powerhouse #8
- Description
- Big Creek Powerhouse #8 - Blasting granite cliffs at head of project 3 road, lower San Joaquin Canyon.
- Date
- 1921
- Call number
- photCL SCE 02 - 07550
Visual Materials
Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
Visual Materials
Big Creek, Miscellaneous - Road building - drilling crew near front of a heavy rock cut, Project 3 road, Lower San Joaquin Canyon. [Crew is blasting granite cliff to construct road to Powerhouse #3.]
photCL SCE 02 - 07433
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Big Creek Powerhouse #8 - Construction of new road to Powerhouse 3. Drillers excavating on steep granite face in San Joaquin Canyon.
photCL SCE 02 - 07554
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Big Creek Powerhouse #8 - Marion steam shovel excavating new road to Powerhouse 3 on South bank of San Joaquin River.
photCL SCE 02 - 07317
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Big Creek Powerhouse #8 - drilling rocks that fell into spillway for blasting.
photCL SCE 02 - 07519
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Big Creek Powerhouse #3 - Partially completed road, project 3, lower San Joaquin River. (Compressed air lin is carried by rods inserted in drill holes in the rock wall.)
photCL SCE 02 - 07577
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Big Creek, Miscellaneous - Rock excavation on project 3 road, lower San Joaquin Canyon passing point in foreground. Marion model 40 steam shovel is working at the end of the road.
photCL SCE 02 - 07572