Visual Materials
Big Creek: Dams
- Description
Photographs of Dams 1, 2, 3, 3A, 5 and 6 including Dam 1 intake tower (interior and exterior), seepage, sluice pipes, spilling over top and through spillways, automatic siphons; Dam 2 - watchman's house; Dam 3 and 3A; Dam 4 spilling; Dam 5 - site excavation, forms up, diversion flume, dam construction, trash rack, sluicing mud banks, Powerhouse 8 forebay construction; Dam 6 - site excavation, construction, coffer dam, diversion, framework, primary rock crusher No. 9, Tunnel 3 intake, Dam 6 spilling.
- Date
- 1917 - 1928
- Call number
- photCL SCE
- 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.


