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Florence Lake tunnel construction

Description: Newspaper clippings on the construction of Florence Lake Tunnel [Ward Tunnel] collected from newspapers in 27 states and one from a paper in London, England.
Type: Visual Materials(Opens in new tab)
Date: 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.

Newspaper clippings on the construction of Florence Lake Tunnel [Ward Tunnel] collected from newspapers in 27 states and one from a paper in London

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Newspaper clippings on the construction of Florence Lake Tunnel [Ward Tunnel] collected from newspapers in 27 states and one from a paper in London, England.

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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.

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Big Creek: Construction on Florence Lake (Ward) Tunnel

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Florence Lake Tunnel No. 6 (Ward Tunnel): Photographs of Electric train, concrete batch cars, group photographs of laborers, powder magazine, setting drills, firing switches, steam shovel, tunnel mucking, tunnel breakthrough, tunnel mess train, first round at intake portal, intake portal, outlet portal with flow, outlet flume washout; Camps 31, 60, 61, 62, 63, including library, bath house, housing, boxing match, tool sharpening shop, hospital, office, kitchen, cold storage, ice house, warehouse, dining room, sawmill, the Editors' Party, transmission line, blacksmith shop; Huntington Lake: Daw's Cottage.

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Big Creek: Florence Lake and Dam

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Florence Lake dam: maintenance, including miscellaneous paint samples on arches, test slabs, backcountry Powerhouses, spill of water through Ward Tunnel from Florence Lake, flume collapsed from Ward Tunnel spill, Spillway at Florence Lake Dam cresting with logs and debris caught on drum gates, mountains above Florence Lake, and shots of different stages of construction of Florence Lake Dam. Photographer: Pacific Light & Power Corporation.

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Big Creek construction

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Big Creek, including tunnel excavation, Bear Dam, Mono Dam, Mono-Bear siphon construction; Florence Lake Dam construction, Ward Tunnel spilling; Shaver Lake Dam construction, concrete mixing plant, first concrete, screening plant, Quarry, Powerhouse 2A construction, Stevenson Test Dam construction; Gauging San Joaquin River, Herminghaus Ranch.

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Big Creek: Florence Lake Dam and Dam No. 2

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On spine of album: Florence Lake and Dam. Construction of main river channel, "Frog Pond" section, River Gorge section, trench for buttress 52, Insley tower at Frog Pond, tunnel intake, Camp 64 Hospital and ambulance, construction on diversion dam for intake, proposed wood stave flowline from Florence to Shaver Lake, Camp 62, tunnel excavation, logging reservoir site, Camp 65 sawmill, Camp 60 warehouse. Photographer: Pacific Light & Power Corporation.

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