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    Big Creek: Hydro-electric project photo postcard album

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    Album of photographic postcards of Big Creek and its infrastructure, as well as other hydroelectric projects, including Powerhouse 1 and 2, exciter, gate control, generator floor, Cascada cottages, Dam No. 4, San Joaquin and Eastern Railroad train nearing Cascada, train coming into Cascada station, Bear Creek, Pitman Creek, Magunden Substation; Kaweah No. 3 Switchboard; Toronto Power Co. - Niagara Powerhouse generator floor, Transformer Station, No. 8 Governor, Switchboards, switchrack, magnetic relays, forebay; Front Street Power Station.

    photCL SCE

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    Perry Hornsby's family photos; with Big Creek photos

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    Perry Hornsby's family photos; with Big Creek photos - Masonic Hall, PH 3 control room, Cascada Drug Store, Accounting Office, Mess Hall, PH3 generator floor, Camps 63 & 65, School House, Clubhouse/dormitory, PH 1 in snow, Dam 6, PH 3, Huntington Lake Lodge, Hospital, sled dog team, tunnel work, & Florence Lake.

    photCL SCE 13 - vol 061

  • Stone & Webster Engineering Corp. - Big Creek construction photos

    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.]

    photCL SCE 13 - vol 012

  • Big Creek - Powerhouse #8 (part 1)

    Big Creek - Powerhouse #8 (part 1)

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    Big Creek - Powerhouse #8 (part 1) [Powerhouse 8, Dam 6, Camp 34, Camp 38, overview PH8 & penstock, milling PH8 draft tube, operator's cottage, forebay, sluicing tailrace, generator floor, switchboard, rocks washed into tailrace after penstock burst, Unit #2 at Pelton Water Wheel Co., generator & governor at PH8, penstock vent, transformers & bus, station power sets, switchboard, broken penstock, drilling tunnel #8, repaired penstock, steel forebay, Camp 32 Cookhouse, Johnson Valve, Camp 33.]

    photCL SCE 13 - vol 034

  • Pacific Light & Power Corp. - Big Creek construction

    Pacific Light & Power Corp. - Big Creek construction

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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.]

    photCL SCE 13 - vol 017

  • Big Creek - Powerhouse #3 (part 1)

    Big Creek - Powerhouse #3 (part 1)

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    Big Creek - Powerhouse #3 (part 1) [first forms up on powerhouse, staging and concrete plant, Switching Station, powerhouse steel framework, generator floor, draft tube construction, incline, views from above, penstock construction, Tunnel 3, CO2 equipment on Unit 3, Penstock binding, dispatcher's building, manifold assembly, oil circuit breakers, transformers, Dam 6 spilling, completed Powerhouse 3.]

    photCL SCE 13 - vol 032