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Big Creek: Scenic photos taken by C. Laval

Description: Scenic photographs at Big Creek in the Sierra Nevada mountains, including Kerckhoff Dome in snow, photographic survey team with camera equipment in the snow; surveyors' log cabin, interior shots of surveyors around fireplace, men and women in the snow, people on toboggans, horse-drawn sleds, snowshoes, and cross-country skis, snow packed trees, Huntington Lodge buried in snow, Powerhouse No. 1 in snow.
Type: Visual Materials(Opens in new tab)
Date: n.d.
Call number: photCL SCE
Creator: Southern California Edison Company(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Gift of Edison International, December 2005.

Big Creek - Scenic photos taken by C. Laval, Fresno

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Big Creek - Scenic photos taken by C. Laval, Fresno [Beauty and scenic shots from Big Creek - Kerckhoff Dome in snow, photo survey at Big Creek, surveyor's log cabin, interior shots of surveyors sitting around fireplace, men and women in the snow, people on toboggans, horse-drawn sleds, snowshoes, & cross-country skis, snow packed trees, Huntington Lodge buried in snow, PH 1 in snow]

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Stone & Webster Engineering Corp. - Big Creek construction photos

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Early construction photographs of Big Creek, including excavation for Powerhouse 1 site and penstock path, steel up for Powerhouse1 walls, Powerhouse1 in framing stages, Powerhouse1 construction site covered with snow, concrete chutes for Powerhouse1, concreting Dam No. 1, snow plow on railroad, transformer tanks, clearing for transmission line, Powerhouse1: switchboards, transformers, oil switches, pressing Unit 1 rotor, generation room, bus room, Unit 1 shaft on bearings, pressing runner on shaft, tanking transformer cores, sub-floor wire conduit layout, 150kV Bus Room.

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Stone & Webster Engineering Corp. - Big Creek construction photos

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Early construction photographs of Big Creek, including Powerhouse 1 site and early construction; weir; fishing on Big Creek and San Joaquin River; cabins; San Joaquin and Eastern Railroad; Snow scenes at Big Creek.

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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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