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Description: Stone & Webster Engineering Corp. - Big Creek construction [Powerhouse #2, pouring walls, sluicing below PH#2, Camp 7, crushing plant, generator room, Construction at Dams #1, #2, #3 and #4; intake at Dam 1.]
Type: Visual Materials(Opens in new tab)
Date: 1912-1913
Call number: photCL SCE 13 - vol 014
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Stone & Webster Engineering Corp. - Big Creek construction photos
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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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Stone & Webster Engineering Corp. - Big Creek construction
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Stone & Webster Engineering Corp. - Big Creek construction [Penstock 2, & Powerhouse 2 construction, East portal Tunnel 4, Adit 5, backfill on flowline, incline RR #2, Adit 3 Tunnel 2, 84" flowline installation, site for PH #2, Penstock #1, & Powerhouse 1 construction, installation of Breeches Joint (penstock 1), Tunnel 1 intake.]
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Stone & Webster Engineering Corp. - Big Creek PH 1 construction
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Stone & Webster Engineering Corp. - Big Creek PH 1 construction [Excavation for Powerhouse 1 site and penstock path, PH1 in framing stages, snow at PH1, pouring concrete for PH1, concreting Dam #1, snow plow on railroad, transformer tanks, clearing for transmission line, PH1: switchboards, transformers, oil switches, pressing Unit 1 rotor, generation room, bus room, Unit 1 shaft on bearings, pressing runner on shaft, tanking transformer cores, sub-floor wire conduit layout, 150kV Bus Room.]
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Stone & Webster Engineering Corp. - Big Creek construction photos
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Stone & Webster Engineering Corp. - Big Creek construction photos [Big Creek construction - grading for hoist line, sawmill, railway grade construction, gravel pit & washer, Huntington Lake, east portal Tunnel #3, logging, Dam 2 and dam site 3, Camp 1, Big Creek at Powerhouse #1 site, train #103 arriving at Cascada, train leaving for El Prado, Cascada Falls on Pitman Creek, steam shovel, Cascada yards, Hoist #2, warehouse, planning mill, lumber yards.]
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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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Stone & Webster Engineering Corp. - Big Creek construction photos
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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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