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Big Creek: Construction of Dam No. 6, San Joaquin River (copy 2)

Description: Duplicate of Box 49 album.
Type: Visual Materials(Opens in new tab)
Date: 1921 - 1923
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.

Big Creek: Construction of Dam No. 6, San Joaquin River

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Album with a printed introductory page detailing the construction of Big Creek Dam No. 6 on the San Joaquin River, including dam site, abutments, drilling test cores in riverbed, and building the bypass flume.

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Construction of Dam No. 6, San Joaquin River

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A bound set of 29 commercial photographs showing construction progress of Dam 6 on the San Joaquin River in Fresno County, California, from June 1921 to May 1923. The photographs include views of the river prior to construction, rail lines being built to bring in machines and materials, construction of various sections of the dam, men at work, and the dam upon completion. A one-page printed description of the dam is bound in before the photographs. It is likely that these photographs were taken by Southern California Edison's first company photographer G. Haven Bishop (1879 - 1972).

photCL 140

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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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Big Creek - Construction of Dam #6

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Big Creek - Construction of Dam #6 [Memento Album for the construction of Dam #6 - San Joaquin River, dam site, abutments, drilling test cores in riverbed, building bypass flume, dam construction, copy of blueprint drawing for Dam 6. duplicate album on file - vol 048a]

photCL SCE 13 - vol 048

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F.P.C. Projects 67 and 120, Volume 3 (copy 2)

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Duplicate of F.P.C. Projects 67 and 120, Volume 3 (Box 9).

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Early construction at Big Creek, Tule River and Kern River

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Album compiled by Edison employee containing professional and amateur photographs of Borel interior with Pelton-Francis turbines; Excavation for Big Creek Powerhouse No. 2; Huntington Lake construction for Trestle Dam 1, Dam 2; start of construction at Powerhouse No. 1 and Dam 4, installation of equipment at Powerhouse 1, penstock assembly, completion of Dam 4; construction of Big Creek Powerhouse 2; construction of Powerhouse No. 8, constructing road to Powerhouse 3, and Tule Powerhouse.

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Big Creek: Construction of Dam No. 6, San Joaquin River (copy 2)

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