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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.
Rights: Copyright Southern California Edison. Certain uses require permission from Southern California Edison, contact reference@huntington.org for 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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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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Employee album: Perry Hornsby's family photos and Big Creek

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Photographs of Big Creek compiled by Edison employee, Perry Hornsby, including views of compressor house, sled dog team, Camp 33, 35, 38, and 61, General Office, Huntington Lodge, mess hall, Stevenson Creek Falls, Shaver Sawmill, San Joaquin and Eastern Climax locomotive No. 107, hoist; construction at Dam 5, Dam 6, Intake 3, Powerhouse 3, Powerhouse 8, diver at intake, Penstock blow-out at Powerhouse 8; Kern River No. 3 construction.

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Employee album of T. H. Hotchkiss, Operating Department

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Photographs of Bryce and Zion parks, June Lake, Gem Lake, Gull Lake, Steam Plant Photographs, family Photographs, Catalina, [Huntington Library, Palm Canyon, Long Beach earthquake], USS Constitution, desert scenes, Steam Plant control room, Hoover Dam (under construction and during operation), Long Beach Steam Station, assorted photographs of California Missions, ocean liner "Empress of Britain", seaplane, steam Locomotives, US Navy ships.

photCL SCE

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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.

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

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