Opening Hours
Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
Visual Materials
Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
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Visual Materials
Early construction photographs of Big Creek, including Big Creek Camps 1, 1A, 1C, 1E, 1F, 2, 3, 4, 4A, 6, 7; Planing mill, cement warehouse, kitchen, sawmill, incline railroad, meat house, mess hall, road construction, machine shop and blacksmith, general office at Camp 2, general warehouse, construction of Crusher Washer Plant, hospital operating room at Camp 2, dining room, gravel storage, operator's cottage in snow, bunk houses, Dam 1 (and intake), Dam 2, and Dam 3. Photographs by Stone & Webster Engineering Corporation.
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Pacific Light & Power Corp. - Big Creek early construction photos [Gravel pit, sluicing PH#2 site, Powerhouse 1 under construction, Powerhouse 2 under construction, Units 1 & 2 at PH1, PH2 Switchboard, Generator Room, Hoist #2, oil switch room, 6600 V switch room, local service switchboard, generator assembly, Tunnel 2 - adit 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, & 8; Intake to Tunnel 1, 9' flow pipe, west portal Tunnel 1, concreting surge tank at West Portal Tunnel 2.]
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Big Creek, San Joaquin & Eastern Railroad - [Editor's party on SJ&E Railway, SJ&E passenger car 501, rail yard, construction work on railroad, Cascada Station; Auberry - machine shop, mess hall, commissary, & penstock staging area; Cascada - mail room, school house, commissary, mess hall after fire, gas tanks, offices, hospital, recreation hall, warehouse, dormitory, tennis court, boxing match, pole treating plant, building tunnel dump cars, building concrete gun pipes, dance party, laundry room, cookhouse, & 2 story bunkhouse; Camp 38 hospital; Clovis - cottages, water tanks, & sawmill; Sled Dog Team, and horse drawn sleds; Camp 62 - Telegraph room; Camp 63 radio equipment; Camp 3 radio room]
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Early construction photographs of Big Creek, including grading for hoist line, sawmill, railway grade construction, gravel washer, reservoir from Dam 1 [Huntington Lake], east portal Tunnel No. 3, logging; Big Creek Dam 2 and Dam site 3; Big Creek Camp 1, gravel pit, gravel washer; Big Creek crossing at foot of incline [Powerhouse No. 1 site]; Train No. 103 at Cascada; Train leaving for El Prado; Cascada Falls on Pitman Creek; Cascada yards; Hoist No. 2; Warehouse, planning mill, and lumber yards. Photographs by Stone & Webster Engineering Corporation.
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Early construction photographs of Big Creek. Includes views of gravel pit, sluicing Powerhouse No. 2 site; Powerhouse 1 under construction; Powerhouse 2 under construction; Units 1 and 2 at Powerhouse 1; Powerhouse 2 switchboard, generator, Hoist No. 2, oil switch room, 6600 V switch room, local service switchboard, generator assembly; Tunnel 2 - adit 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, and 8; Intake to Tunnel 1, 9' flow pipe, west portal Tunnel 1, concreting surge tank at West Portal Tunnel 2. Photographs by Stone & Webster Engineering Corporation.
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Early construction photographs of Big Creek, including Powerhouse No. 2 construction, including pouring walls and sluicing below Powerhouse No. 2; Camp 7; crushing plant; generator room; Construction at Dams No. 1, No. 2, No. 3 and No. 4; Intake at Dam 1. Photographs by Stone & Webster Engineering Corporation.
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