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Brochure published by PL&P about the Big Creek hydroelectric project, containing maps and pictures accompanied by text. A letter inserted at the end of the album from Bernell Smith to Mr. R.W. Maraist dated April 3, 1982, recounts life at Big Creek as an Edison employee.
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70% personal photographs from locations around the world with some colorized commercial photocards. 30% Big Creek project photos. The album was presumably created by an Edison, Big Creek employee.
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Big Creek - Hydroelectric project photos [Big Creek - commercial postcards, Powerhouse 1 & 2, exciter, gate control, generator floor, Cascada cottages, Dam #4, SJ&E train nearing Cascada, train coming into Cascada station, Bear Creek, Pitman Creek, Magunden Sub.; Kaweah #3 Switchboard; Toronto Power Co. - Niagara Powerhouse generator floor, Transformer Station, #8 Governor, Switchboards, switchrack, magnetic relays, forebay; Front Street Power Station (AC side, and DC side)]
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Big Creek - Mammoth Pool - Initial embankment placement of cutoff trench.
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Big Creek - Mammoth Pool - Initial embankment placement of cutoff trench.
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The survey crews who laid out the initial development at Big Creek had to endure the most primitive living conditions. An unidentified crew of surveyor, rodman and axeman poses for a Sunday portrait near Halleck Creek, below Powerhouse No. 2. Dave Redinger lived in camps like this during the summer of 1914.
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