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Big Creek: Progress photos of Powerhouse No. 3

Description: Construction photographs at Big Creek No. 3, including operators cottages, warehouse and garage, gauging station, sewage treatment plant, installation of 4th unit in Powerhouse 3, constructing machine shop.
Type: Visual Materials(Opens in new tab)
Date: 1945 - 1952
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.

Big Creek - Progress photos of Powerhouse #3

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Big Creek - Progress photos of Powerhouse #3 [Construction - operators cottages, warehouse & garage, gauging station, sewage treatment plant, installation of 4th unit in Powerhouse 3, constructing machine shop.]

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Big Creek: Powerhouse No. 2 and 2a (part 2)

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Photographs of Powerhouse 2 and 2A, Part Two. Views of auto transformers, substation, new 6600 V line, new bridge for powerhouse extension, Unit No. 4 with direct connected exciter, constructing new Unit No. 4, 150kV - 220kV Bushings, switchboard, installation of new Unit No. 4 penstock, concrete plant, incline batch cars, stand pipes, Unit No. 3 foundation, Unit No. 3 penstock install, valve house modification, rock crushing plant, Johnson Valve, assembly of new Unit No. 3, auto circuit breakers, 150kV Oil Switch, new hoist, autotransformers, and 11kV equipment, new Bus Bar installation, Governor No. 4; Camp No. 7 - telephone exchange, cottage, machine shop, warehouse, mess hall construction, sawmill; Camp No. 5 - forebay construction, batch plant, steam shovel excavating.

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Stone & Webster Engineering Corp. - Big Creek construction photos

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Early construction photographs of Big Creek, including Big Creek Camps 1, 1A, 1C, 1E, 1F, 2, 3, 4, 4A, 6, 7; Planing mill, cement warehouse, kitchen, sawmill, incline railroad, meat house, mess hall, road construction, machine shop and blacksmith, general office at Camp 2, general warehouse, construction of Crusher Washer Plant, hospital operating room at Camp 2, dining room, gravel storage, operator's cottage in snow, bunk houses, Dam 1 (and intake), Dam 2, and Dam 3. Photographs by Stone & Webster Engineering Corporation.

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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 Powerhouse #3

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Big Creek Powerhouse #3 - Site of new Warehouse and Garage.

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Big Creek - Powerhouse #2 & 2a (part 2)

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Big Creek - Powerhouse #2 & 2a (part 2) [Powerhouse 2 & 2A - auto transformers, substation, new 6.6kV line, new bridge for powerhouse extension, Unit #4 with direct connected exciter, constructing new Unit #4, 150kV - 220kV Bushings, switchboard, installation of new Unit #4 penstock, concrete plant, incline batch cars, stand pipes, Unit #3 foundation, Unit #3 penstock install, valve house modification, rock crushing plant, Johnson Valve, assembly of new Unit #3, auto circuit breakers, 150kV Oil Switch, new hoist, auto-transformers, and 11kV equipment, new Bus Bar installation, Governor #4; Camp #7 - telephone exchange, cottage, machine shop, warehouse, mess hall construction, sawmill; Camp #5 - forebay construction, batch plant, steam shovel excavating.]

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Big Creek: Progress photos of Powerhouse No. 3

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