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Personal album of snapshots showing area around Big Creek

Description: Personal album of snapshots showing area around Big Creek, including Pittman Falls, Huntington Lake, snow recreation, Dam 4, Nellie Lake, winter scenes, family life , Jerry Dwyer's dog team, Dam 1, Yosemite, and assorted vacation images including automobile touring in the Southwest. There is one photograph of a man standing in the snow with a camera.
Type: Visual Materials(Opens in new tab)
Date: approximately 1924
Call number: photCL SCE
Creator: Southern California Edison Company(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Gift of Edison International, December 2005.

Pittman Falls

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Pittman Falls, Huntington Lake, snow recreation, Dam 4, Nellie Lake, Big Creek in winter, family life in Big Creek, Jerry Dwyer's dog team, Dam 1, Yosemite, & assorted vacation & personal photos.

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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.

photCL SCE

Big Creek Dog Teams

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Big Creek Dog Teams - [Jerry Dwyer's] Dog team pulling dog sled in snow

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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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Big Creek: Scenic photos taken by C. Laval

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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.

photCL SCE

Big Creek Dog Teams

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Big Creek Dog Teams - Dog team pulling dog sled in snow

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Personal album of snapshots showing area around Big Creek

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