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Employee album of R. H. Cates - personal and project photos

Description: Album of personal and project snapshots of R. H. Cates. Views in Logan, Utah, Kern River, Los Angeles, and Santa Barbara, and scenes of camping, hunting, riding, boating, fishing, pumping plant, mining operations or tunnel excavation, Big Bear Dam.
Type: Visual Materials(Opens in new tab)
Date: n.d.
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.

R. H. Cates personal and project photos

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R. H. Cates personal and project photos. Camping, hunting, riding, boating, fishing, pumping plant, mining operations or tunnel excavation, Big Bear Dam.

photCL SCE 13 - vol 116

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Big Creek: Huntington Lake Lodge

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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.

photCL SCE

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Employee album of Big Creek

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Photographs of Big Creek compiled by Edison employee, Perry Hornsby, including Powerhouse 3 control room, Cascada Drug Store, Accounting Office, Mess Hall, Powerhouse3 generator floor, Camps 63 and 65, School House, Clubhouse/dormitory, Powerhouse 1 in snow, Dam 6, Powerhouse 3, Huntington Lake Lodge, Hospital, sled dog team, tunnel work, and Florence Lake.

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F.P.C. Vol. 1, Projects 67 and 120 - Construction of Florence Lake Dam, Florence Tunnel, & Mono-Bear Diversion

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Florence Reservoir, Florence Tunnel, and Mono-Bear. Views include Big Creek Canyon; Florence Lake Dam site, including diamond drilling, clearing site, crib dam; Florence Lake Dam construction, forms construction; Florence Tunnel intake, tunnel excavation; Mono Dam construction: Mono-Bear junction; Mono-Bear siphon construction.

photCL SCE

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Edison employee family album of Big Creek project

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Album of snapshots compiled by unidentified Edison employee with scenes of Big Creek camp and employees engaged in various recreational activities. Photographs accompanied by decorative hand drawn flourishes as well as identifications, poems, and verse. Many of the images focus on Camp 63 of Big Creek.

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F.P.C. Vol. 3, Projects 67 and 120 - Construction of Big Creek Powerhouse 3 and construction camps

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Construction of Powerhouse 3 and construction camps 1 to 54. Views include Tunnel 3, including intake construction, portal adit Camp 36, Camp 35 adit, outlet portal; Penstock 3 portal structure and manifold, surge chamber, drill sharpeners, connecting 18' penstock to manifold, butterfly valve house, flume to railroad sluicing water at outlet; Tunnel 3 excavation; Surge chamber construction; Construction views of Powerhouse 3, installation of 3 penstocks, turbine and generator installations at No. 3; Construction of 220kV switchyard.

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Employee album of R. H. Cates - personal and project photos

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