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San Joaquin & Eastern Railroad, Huntington Lake and Huntington Lake Lodge

Description: Xerox copies of San Joaquin and Eastern Railroad Photographs at Big Creek, including Huntington Lake and Huntington Lodge, Shaver Lake Lumber Company and Railroad, and Big Creek rail operations.
Type: Visual Materials(Opens in new tab)
Date: approximately 1935
Call number: photCL SCE
Creator: Southern California Edison Company(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Gift of Edison International, December 2005.
Restrictions: Open for use by qualified researchers and by appointment. Please contact Reader Services at the Huntington Library for more information.

Big Creek: Big Creek scenery and Huntington Lake Lodge

Visual Materials

Big Creek Scenery and Huntington Lake Lodge. Photographs around Big Creek, Powerhouse No. 1, Stevenson Creek Camp, Basin Laundry near Camp 3, Pitman Creek, Big Creek Hotel, Indian Hut, Dawn Lumber Mill and Yard, winter scenes, Nellie Lake frozen, Kaiser Crest, Home Camp Creek, Big Falls on Pitman Creek, corral at Cattleman's Camp, Rancheria Creek, Huntington Lake Lodge and Cottages, boating.

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Pacific Light & Power Corp. - San Joaquin & Eastern Railroad; early Big Creek

Visual Materials

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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Big Creek; San Joaquin & Eastern Railroad

Visual Materials

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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Pacific Light & Power Corp. - San Joaquin & Eastern Railroad, Fresno County, California

Visual Materials

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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Big Creek: Huntington Lake Lodge

Visual Materials

Huntington Lake Lodge. Views of mountain scenery, recreation (fishing, boating, horseback riding, picnics, the lake, lodge guests, cart rides, croquet court, snow recreation, sledding, snowshoe hiking.

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7.15. San Joaquin and Eastern Railroad Company

Manuscripts

This subseries consists of a legal settlement between the Director General of Railroads and the San Joaquin and Eastern Railroad Company. Files are arranged alphabetically by title, and chronologically thereafter.

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San Joaquin & Eastern Railroad, Huntington Lake and Huntington Lake Lodge

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