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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Photographs of Dams 1, 2, 3, 3A, 5 and 6 including Dam 1 intake tower (interior and exterior), seepage, sluice pipes, spilling over top and through spillways, automatic siphons; Dam 2 - watchman's house; Dam 3 and 3A; Dam 4 spilling; Dam 5 - site excavation, forms up, diversion flume, dam construction, trash rack, sluicing mud banks, Powerhouse 8 forebay construction; Dam 6 - site excavation, construction, coffer dam, diversion, framework, primary rock crusher No. 9, Tunnel 3 intake, Dam 6 spilling.
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Big Creek - Florence Lake Dam and Dam #2 [Construction of Florence Dam, main river channel, "Frog Pond" section, River Gorge section, trench for buttress 52, Insley tower at Frog Pond, tunnel intake, Camp 64 Hospital and ambulance, construction on diversion dam for intake, proposed wood stave flowline from Florence to Shaver Lake, Camp 62, tunnel excavation, logging reservoir site, Camp 65 sawmill, Camp 60 warehouse]
photCL SCE 13 - vol 023
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On spine of album: Florence Lake and Dam. Construction of main river channel, "Frog Pond" section, River Gorge section, trench for buttress 52, Insley tower at Frog Pond, tunnel intake, Camp 64 Hospital and ambulance, construction on diversion dam for intake, proposed wood stave flowline from Florence to Shaver Lake, Camp 62, tunnel excavation, logging reservoir site, Camp 65 sawmill, Camp 60 warehouse. Photographer: Pacific Light & Power Corporation.
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Big Creek - Shaver Lake #2 [Shaver Dam construction - excavation, forms, concrete placement, diversions, Shaver Lake and old dam, aggregate conveyor belt, old dam & intake to shaver tunnel, quarry, duplex valve near Dam 2, Bear diversion dam, construction of Saver Dam, finished dam showing areas with some leakage.]
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Big Creek projects & Colorado River Survey [Colorado River Survey (1922 - with captions)- Hall's Crossing, Rock Island, Hole in the Wall, San Juan River, San Juan dam site, Aztec Creek, Rainbow Natural Bridge, Girand dam site, Sentinel Rock dam site, Boulder Canyon dam site, Black Canyon dam site, Pierce's Ferry, Grand Wash Canyon, Hualpai dam site, Virgin Canyon dam site, Callville dam site, El Dorado dam site; Huntington Lake -Dam 1 spilling, assembly of 4th unit Powerhouse 1; Florence Lake - Dam construction, tunnel construction, diversion dam at Camp 63.]
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Big Creek - tunnel excavation, Bear Dam, Mono Dam, Mono-Bear Siphon construction; Florence Lake Dam construction, Ward Tunnel spilling; Shaver Lake Dam construction, concrete mixing plant, first concrete, screening plant, Quarry, Powerhouse 2A construction, Stevenson Test Dam construction; Gauging San Joaquin River, Herminghaus Ranch.
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