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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.
Restrictions: Open for use by qualified researchers and by appointment. Please contact Reader Services at the Huntington Library for more information.
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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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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 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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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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Employee album of Big Creek staff and operations

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Various views of Big Creek staff and operations with handwritten captions by an Edison employee who appears throughout as "myself" or "4717," the number that appears on his belt buckle (see p. 53 and p. 16) Portrait of a woman named Marie Riba on cover. Snapshot photographs of employees at work, on outings and hikes in the mountains, on a honeymoon automobile trip to Santa Barbara and San Diego, and at parties.

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Edison employee family album of Big Creek project

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