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Big Creek Powerhouse 2a

Visual Materials

Big Creek Powerhouse 2a

Description: Big Creek Powerhouse 2a - Showing foundation and tructural steel going up for PH #2A. The excavation for the Penstock is showing to good advantage in this photo also the road behind Powerhouses #2 and #2A.
Type: Visual Materials(Opens in new tab)
Date: 9/11/1927
Call number: photCL SCE 02 - 14730
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