Opening Hours
Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
Visual Materials
Visual Materials
Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
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San Joaquin and Eastern Railroad Co. and Big Creek scenery; man fishing; woman and child outside tent cabin at Cascada; Bridge over Big Creek near Powerhouse 1 site; Powerhouse 1 under construction; Water line with Kerckhoff Dome overhead; Dam No. 4 site and near completion; Cascada Falls, Pitman Creek; Sawmill at reservoir site. Photographer: Pacific Light & Power Corporation.
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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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Pacific Light & Power Corp. - San Joaquin & Eastern Railroad, and early Big Creek [Only a few scenic shots of the early Big Creek construction period including one railroad photo remain in this album. All the rest have been taken from the album.]
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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]
photCL SCE 13 - vol 020
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Pacific Light & Power Corp. - Big Creek construction [Powerhouse 1 site and early construction, weir, fishing on Big Creek & San Joaquin River, cabins, SJ&E RR, snow scenes at Big Creek.]
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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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