Opening Hours
Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
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Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
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On spine of album: San Joaquin & Eastern Railroad, Auberry, Cascada, Clovis, Dog Team, Radio. Album begins with group of editors on San Joaquin and Eastern Railroad en route to Big Creek in 1923; Cascada Station; Auberry: machine shop, mess hall and penstock staging area; Cascada: mail room, school house, mess hall after fire, gas tanks, offices, hospital, recreation hall, warehouse dormitory, tennis court, boxing match, pole treating plant, construction of tunnel dump cars and concrete gun pipes, dance party, warehouse, laundry room, cookhouse, and two-story bunkhouse; Camp 38 hospital; Clovis: cottages, water tanks, and sawmill; Sled Dog Team, and horse drawn sleds; Camp 62: telegraph room; Camp 63 radio equipment; Camp 3 radio room. Photographer: Pacific Light & Power Corporation.
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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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The holing through of the Florence Lake Tunnel was a major milestone on the Big Creek Project. Here, E.R. Davis (wearing glasses, squatting in center) supervises the placing of the last few charges of dynamite to break through. Pg. 116.
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San Joaquin and Eastern Railroad Co. and Big Creek scenery. Only a few scenic shots of early Big Creek construction period remain in this album. The majority of the album was probably made up of San Joaquin and Eastern Railroad and 8 x 10 in. powerhouse photographs. Twenty-nine of these Powerhouse photos have been ripped from the pages and, taken from the albums. Only one railroad powerhouse photograph remains in the album. Photographer: Pacific Light & Power 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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This 1922 map shows the proposed ultimate development of the Big Creek Project to a size even larger than that first envisioned by John Eastwood. Still later plans added more powerhouses on the South Fork of the San Joaquin, but none were built before the depression ended work. Today, the Balsam Meadows Plant is near the site of old Powerhouse #5. Pg. 103.
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