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Edison employee family album of Big Creek project

Description: 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.
Type: Visual Materials(Opens in new tab)
Date: approximately 1924 - 1925
Call number: photCL SCE
Creator: Southern California Edison Company(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Gift of Edison International, December 2005.
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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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Edison employee album of Big Creek [?] scenes

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Snapshots by Edison employee, Lynn Harrington, of hydroelectric project, possibly of Big Creek, scenery, and group gatherings. A few pictures are identified. There are at least two pictures of Harrington.

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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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Edison employee album of Big Creek scenes

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Snapshots and real photo postcards compiled by Edison Employee, Bert Clickenger (1884-1964) of workers and facilities related to Big Creek. Some of the snapshots have captions and notes. The real photo postcards are identified.

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Big Creek projects and Colorado River survey

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Photographs of 1922 Colorado River Survey with typescript captions by "E.C.L.", including Hall's Crossing, Rock Island, Hole in the Wall, San Juan River, San Juan Dam site, Aztec Creek, Rainbow Natural Bridge, Girand Dam site, Sentinel Rock Dam site, Boulder Canyon Dam site, Black Canyon Dam site, Pierce's Ferry, Grand Wash Canyon, Hualapai Dam site, Virgin Canyon Dam site, Callville Dam site, El Dorado Dam site; Big Creek projects include Huntington Lake Dam 1 fourth unit of Powerhouse 1, Florence Lake Dam construction, tunnel construction, and diversion dam at Camp 63.

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Big Creek; San Joaquin & Eastern Railroad

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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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Edison employee family album of Big Creek project

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